Tag: south park
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South Park community group seeks to reclaim neighborhood land from a harmful, redundant highway
South Park has some of the most harmful air quality of any residential neighborhood in Seattle and King County, and it doesn’t take long to figure out where a lot of it comes from: The freeway that splits the neighborhood in two. It’s a story that has been repeated many times across the city and…
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Georgetown to South Park trail reaches design milestone, scheduled to open in 2023
The Georgetown to South Park Connection, a walking and biking trail concept promoted for years by the community-led group Duwamish Valley Safe Streets, is on schedule to begin construction in 2022 and open in 2023. Final design should be complete near the end of 2021. The path will lead from near 12th and Bailey in…
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Watch SDOT’s virtual tour of the Duwamish Trail connection & crossing improvements
The Seattle Department of Transportation continues outreach around its proposal to finally connect the last segment of the Duwamish Trail between the West Seattle Bridge and the separated trail that starts a half mile down West Marginal Way SW. A Virtual Open House around all the improvements planned for the street is planned for next…
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Proposed Duwamish Trail extension could make everyone safer on West Marginal Way
The Duwamish trail provides one of the only dedicated bike routes to and from the South Park neighborhood, which is currently dealing with an influx of drivers looking for any shortcut they can take to avoid the repercussions of the West Seattle bridge closure. But for nearly half a mile on its northern end, the…
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Lower West Seattle Bridge reopens, but closure highlighted major need for Sodo bike lanes
UPDATE: The Lower Spokane St Bridge is back open again to all pedestrian, bicycle and vehicle traffic! Thank you to everyone for your patience and understanding. — seattleDOTbridges (@SDOTbridges) June 26, 2018 The lower West Seattle Bridge has reopened following a more than five-day emergency repair of the vital biking and walking connection between West…
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Support budgets for a Georgetown/South Park trail, SDOT Equity Program, Summer Parkways + more
It is long past time to build a comfortable and safe biking and walking connection between Georgetown and South Park. These communities are so close, yet the most direct way to walk between them involves a dirt path running behind an active rail line. Biking between the communities requires biking on skinny paint-only bike lanes…
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