Tag: complete streets

December 19, 2023

Seattle now must repair/build sidewalks when undertaking major street projects

SDOT should no longer be able to make a significant road repair project without ensuring that at least one side of the street has a sidewalk and completing any necessary repairs. The City Council approved a new ordinance last week that will make sure SDOT no longer makes large street investments that ignore the adjacent sidewalks.…
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tagged: 2023 sidewalk ordinance, cb 119601, cb 120658, city council, complete streets, disability rights washington, sdot, tammy morales
October 2, 2023

Pause the Denny Way repaving project until it is safe and aligns with Seattle’s transportation policy

People are injured and killed in preventable traffic collisions on Denny Way every year, yet Seattle is planning to invest more than $5 million in the street without addressing its dangerous street design. Instead, the project is moving forward without regard for the city’s Vision Zero goals and without addressing needs specifically called for in…
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tagged: complete streets, denny way, pedestrian master plan, ryan packer, sdot, traffic operations division, transit master plan, vision zero
February 1, 2021

Proposed modal integration policy would dismantle the Bicycle Master Plan

Seattle’s Complete Streets ordinance turns 14 years old this year. Since becoming one of the first major American cities to codify in city law the idea that all major transportation improvements should include accommodations for all types of street users, the city has struggled to actually put this into practice. Loopholes allowed individual projects to…
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tagged: bicycle master plan, complete streets
August 8, 2019

Council bills say major paving projects ‘shall’ build planned bike lanes, push for downtown and south end bike lanes + Support these bills Friday

Seattle already has a complete streets ordinance that says SDOT needs to consider the needs of all road users when making major road investments. The city also has a Bicycle Master Plan that notes where the highest-priority bike connections are. And yet Mayor Jenny Durkan and SDOT were still able to delete the planned, designed…
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tagged: complete streets, jenny durkan, mike o’brien, transportation committee
October 14, 2016

2 for the price of 1: Paving projects must also complete our streets

Seattle’s newest protected bike lane connects a future light rail station on NE 65th Street to the University Bridge and beyond. But it wasn’t created specifically as a bike improvement project. Instead, Seattle’s Department of Transportation was preparing to repave the street, and they used that work as an opportunity to build out bike and…
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tagged: 2018 paving, cascade bicycle club, complete streets, sdot
December 18, 2014

If Holman Road is a ‘complete street,’ then that term has lost all meaning

I received a troubling press release today from SDOT. In announcing the completion of the 1.4-mile, $3.8 million Holman Road repaving project, the department and Director Scott Kubly repeatedly refer to the street as a “complete street.” If Holman Road is a complete street, then that term means nothing. Holman Road is a busy, mean,…
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tagged: complete streets, holman rd, scott kubly, sdot