Tag: sdot

November 30, 2023

SDOT is nearing final design for the Georgetown to Downtown bike route

The design for the Georgetown to Downtown Safety Project, which will build a long-awaited and sorely needed bike connection, is nearing completion. The biggest changes are that the route will now access the SoDo Trail via S Lander Street rather than S Forest Street, which the SoDo Business Improvement Area requested. They have also revealed…
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tagged: georgetown to downtown bike connection, sdot, sodo, sodo bia
November 27, 2023

SDOT releases early design for Leary/Market bikeway, seeks feedback

The day before Thanksgiving, SDOT released a first look at their design concept for a Ballard Missing Link bike route alternative following 17th Ave NW, Leary Way and Market Street. The plan includes a 10-foot-wide “multi-use trail” on one side of the street as well as significant traffic calming and safety upgrades to Leary Way…
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tagged: 17th ave nw, ballard, leary way, market st, missing link, sdot
November 16, 2023

‘Your neighbor was killed in a car crash here.’ 200+ yellow memorial silhouettes installed around Seattle

If you see a yellow silhouette attached to a pole or sign around town, it’s there because a person was killed in a traffic collision near that spot in the nearly nine years since Seattle first approved it’s Vision Zero goal in 2015. The sheer number of these yellow memorials, numbering over 200, provides a…
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tagged: eric mackres, gordon padelford, sdot, seattle neighborhood greenways, vision zero, world day of remembrance, world day of remembrance 2023
October 27, 2023

It’s happeningggggggg!!!!!!!!!

via SDOT Director Greg Spotts. For background on what’s happening here, see our previous story. UPDATE: I biked there so I could touch it myself to confirm it’s real. It is. However, I now see that this looks like a blurry Big Foot photo from a hunt for the mythical Missing Link. Oooh, there’s a…
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tagged: ballard, ballard terminal railroad, greg spotts, meeker southern railroad, missing link, sdot
October 27, 2023

SDOT finalizes RapidRide J design with complete Eastlake bike lanes, plans to begin construction in summer 2024

Seattle has completed the design for the RapidRide J project, which includes complete and protected bike lanes on Eastlake Ave. The design even includes protected bike lanes on the block immediately south of the University Bridge, which was lacking protection in an earlier design. Thanks to many years of persistent advocacy, the project is poised…
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tagged: 11th ave ne, 12th ave ne, eastlake, eastlake community council, fairview ave n, rapidride j, sdot, university bridge, university district
October 25, 2023

Council approves deal to pave over the Missing Link tracks under the Ballard Bridge

Within hours after the City Council approved a deal with the railroad now formerly known as the Ballard Terminal Railroad Tuesday, SDOT crews had already marked out the area under the Ballard Bridge where they plan to pave over both the railroad tracks and gravel pits in order to create a safe bicycle pathway. Work…
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tagged: ballard, ballard terminal railroad, burke-gilman trail, dan strauss, meeker southern railroad, missing link, sdot