Tag: greg spotts

December 10, 2024

SDOT Director Greg Spotts announces February resignation

SDOT Director Greg Spotts will resign February 12, he announced Tuesday morning. “I depart the Puget Sound with great enthusiasm for Seattle’s future and profound gratitude to Mayor Harrell for the opportunity to serve a dynamic, innovative and fast growing city with unlimited potential,” he wrote in a Bluesky post. “I’m also very thankful for…
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tagged: bruce harrell, greg spotts, sdot
October 27, 2023

It’s happeningggggggg!!!!!!!!!

via SDOT Director Greg Spotts. For background on what’s happening here, see our previous story. UPDATE: I biked there so I could touch it myself to confirm it’s real. It is. However, I now see that this looks like a blurry Big Foot photo from a hunt for the mythical Missing Link. Oooh, there’s a…
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tagged: ballard, ballard terminal railroad, greg spotts, meeker southern railroad, missing link, sdot
July 26, 2023

After community urging, SDOT adds last-minute safety improvements to 15th Ave NW paving project

SDOT just added some significant safety improvements to the 15th Ave NW paving project before declaring the design 100% complete and ready for construction. No, the changes to not fix the horrible sidewalks across the Ballard Bridge, which is easily the biggest problem with this stretch of the street. However, SDOT will add a median…
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tagged: 15th ave NW, ballard, ballard bridge, fremont-ballard greenways, greg spotts, sdot
July 13, 2023

After 6 years of red tape, SDOT is linking the Rainier Valley Greenway to the I-90 Trail

The Rainier Valley Neighborhood Greenway opened in 2017 with a key piece missing: A connection the final block or so to the I-90 Trail in Sam Smith Park. “One of the coolest ideas in the plan is the new connection to the I-90 Trail,” I wrote in a September 2015 post about the greenway plan.…
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tagged: greg spotts, I-90 trail, rainier valley neighborhood greenway, sdot, wsdot
March 2, 2023

Greenways and Cascade seek more specifics in plan to get Vision Zero back on track

SDOT is set to present their “top to bottom review” of the Vision Zero program to the City Council Transportation Committee March 7, and safe streets advocates are pushing for more specifics and hard deadlines to “light a fire under our elected leaders to get Vision Zero back on track,” as Cascade Bicycle Club put…
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tagged: bruce harrell, cascade bicycle club, greg spotts, seattle neighborhood greenways, vision zero
February 27, 2023

Draft of SDOT’s Vision Zero review suggests internal reorganizing and more funding, but it feels small compared to our traffic violence emergency

On his first day on the job, SDOT Director Greg Spotts pledged a “top-to-bottom review” of the department’s Vision Zero program to figure out why traffic injuries and deaths are increasing, especially for people walking and rolling. He assigned employees from outside the Vision Zero team to perform the review, and they released a draft…
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tagged: bruce harrell, greg spotts, sdot, vision zero