Tag: greenwood ave

December 20, 2022

Here’s why the new signal at 83rd and Greenwood still isn’t fully operational

The crosswalk signal at 83rd and Greenwood made some headlines a few months ago in large part because it was constructed in the same place as a community-made crosswalk that was painted in September 2021. The crossing is part of the neighborhood greenway connection between Greenwood and Green Lake, and the improved crosswalk even garnered…
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tagged: greenwood, greenwood ave, n 83rd street, sdot
October 27, 2022

City installs traffic signal at former site of guerilla crosswalk + Celebration Saturday

Five months after SDOT removed an illegal anonymously-painted crosswalk at 83rd and Greenwood, the department has opened a new signalized and official crosswalk at the same location. The crossing had been a missing link in the N 83rd Street neighborhood greenway, connecting the improved Green Lake bike lanes to the Interurban North bike route and…
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tagged: greenwood, greenwood ave, n 83rd street, nw greenways, sdot
March 25, 2014

City adding sidewalks, bus islands to Greenwood Ave between 90th and 105th

The city is in the final stages of designing a big upgrade to Greenwood Ave N between N 90th and 105th Streets, a busy street with few sidewalks and inadequate bus stops. Billed as a transit improvements project, most the sidewalk improvements will be on the east side of the street to provide a connected…
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tagged: greenwood, greenwood ave, meetings, sdot, seattle transit blog, transit islands
June 10, 2013

We are failing our kids: A look at Seattle’s terrifyingly normal streets

I was poking around Google Maps over the weekend when I stumbled on a Street View scene that made me stop in my tracks. This group of kids, holding hands, escorted by two adults have to run to make sure they can get across the five lanes of Fauntleroy Way SW at SW Alaska Street…
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tagged: broadview-thomson k-8, greenwood ave, west seattle
December 7, 2010

Greenwood Ave changes feel natural

Remember back when you could be riding your bike pleasantly along a relatively calm Greenwood Ave headed north, then you would reach 85th and the road would become a four-lane highway? The cars that were so recently calm would speed up, and you would more or less be pushed off the side of the road…
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tagged: bike lanes, greenwood, greenwood ave, road diets, road tailoring, sdot
September 22, 2010

Greenwood Ave changes coming next month

You know how Greenwood Ave is a totally comfortable place to ride headed north, then you hit 85th and it’s all like, AHHHHHHHHH! Well, that’s set to change in the next month or so. SDOT has decided to move forward with reconfiguration plans for Greenwood Ave between 85th and 105th. Work is scheduled to begin…
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tagged: greenwood, greenwood ave, road diets