Tag: downtown

July 1, 2015

Our latest look at plans for a new downtown waterfront

The draft Environmental Impact Statement for the redesigned Seattle downtown waterfront is out. You have until August 12 to submit comments, which you can do via this online survey or by emailing [email protected]. The final EIS should be out in late 2015 or early 2016, and construction should be ready to begin in 2017. There…
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tagged: alaskan way, alaskan way viaduct, downtown, waterfront
May 8, 2015

Madison BRT project could also build better Union St bike lanes

Union Street could get a major bike lane update as part of the Madison Bus Rapid Transit project, according to city plans presented at an open house earlier this week. The bike route upgrades are part of an attempt to make the Madison Street BRT project a “complete street” by building a nearby “parallel” bike…
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tagged: capitol hill, central district, downtown, first hill, jean tinnea, madison, madison brt, positively union, seneca, spring, union street
March 27, 2015

SPD: Woman with walker killed crossing street downtown

A man driving a pickup truck struck and killed a woman with a walker as she crossed Seneca at 5th Ave near the YWCA Thursday afternoon. UPDATE: The King County Medical Examiner has identified her as Michele Jozefiak, 45. Our deepest condolences to her friends and family. Police are investigating, according to a post on…
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tagged: 5th ave, deaths, downtown, seneca
February 25, 2015

69 percent of downtown workers don’t drive alone

The most recent Downtown Seattle Association/Commute Seattle survey (PDF) of downtown commute habits shows that 69 percent of workers do not drive alone to their jobs. Transit is by far the preferred way to get to downtown jobs, though walking, biking and telecommuting are also growing. Though the number of jobs downtown has been rising fast,…
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tagged: commute seattle, downtown, downtown seattle association
February 19, 2015

Yes, Seattle has a parking problem. There’s way too much of it.

There are half a million on-street parking spaces in Seattle, and almost all of them are completely free to use. That’s 60 million square feet of city land, or 1,378 acres. And that’s not counting all the parking lots, parking garages or home driveways and garages. Sightline estimates that between 10 and 20 percent of…
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tagged: alan durning, downtown, king 5, linda byron, mike lindblom, parking, seattle times, sightline
January 8, 2015

Only 2 percent of center city curb space occupied by bike lane

For all the media attention Seattle has received for installing bike lanes in recent years, you might think these things are popping up all over the place. But spend a little time on a bike, and that image is immediately shattered. Seattle streets are very much still focused on driving cars, and biking here with…
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tagged: curbspace study, downtown, protected bike lanes