Tag: Delridge Way SW

November 14, 2024

Seattle prepares to pass budget with huge increases for safe streets + What CM Saka should do about Delridge

Thanks to Seattle voters, in 2025 the city is poised to invest $21 million in new sidewalks, $4.2 million in sidewalk repairs, $8.6 million in Vision Zero, $1.6 million in Safe Routes to School, $9.8 million in new protected bike lanes, and $1 million to upgrade existing bike lane barriers. To deliver all this, they…
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tagged: 2024 budget, Delridge Way SW, rob saka, sara nelson, sdot, seattle neighborhood greenways
January 18, 2024

New Transportation Chair Rob Saka: Street safety is ‘a responsibility I am not taking lightly’

Rob Saka has an enormous task ahead of him in his first year as a City Councilmember. In addition to the usual challenges, like hiring a legislative team and getting everyone up to speed on how work gets done inside City Hall, he will also chair the Transportation Committee during what will likely be the…
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tagged: city council, city council district 1, Delridge Way SW, rapidride h, rob saka, transportation committee
April 22, 2020

Some ways the city can help more people bike during the West Seattle High Bridge closure

Seattle needs to take bold, unprecedented action to help many more people get around by bike during the longterm West Seattle High Bridge closure. This isn’t just about improving cycling conditions, it’s one of the only ways the city can keep the whole transportation system moving. Every idea needs to be on the table, including…
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tagged: Delridge Way SW, duwamish trail, duwamish valley, marginal way, rapidride h, sdot, sw admiral way, upper west seattle bridge, west seattle
February 26, 2020

Seattle’s new ‘mandatory’ bike lane law faces its first real test on Delridge Way SW – UPDATED

Led by former Councilmember Mike O’Brien, Seattle passed an ordinance last year that all but requires SDOT to build out the planned bike network as part of any major repaving projects along a planned route. And the ordinance faces its first test as SDOT does not plan to build complete bike lanes on Delridge Way…
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tagged: delridge, Delridge Way SW, Lisa herbold, rapidride h, west seattle
October 28, 2019

There is room for a better Delridge bike lane

The city’s RapidRide H project on Delridge Way SW is shaping up to be one of the most disappointing so-called “multi-modal” improvement projects in the city. With a huge need for people to bike along this rare, relatively flat and continuous street spanning the neighborhood from the West Seattle Bridge to White Center, the project’s…
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tagged: Delridge Way SW, rapidride h, sdot
May 5, 2015

New Delridge trail connection now open (Video)

The city has finished widening a heavily-used trail connection at the north end of Delridge Way in West Seattle. The new, wider trail connects most of the way from SW Andover Street to trail connections under the West Seattle Bridge that lead downtown, to Alki and down the Duwamish River. The changes also tightened up…
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tagged: Delridge Way SW, jake vanderplas, north delridge, west seattle