Tag: northgate

November 21, 2014

SDOT considering a carbon fiber walk/bike bridge at Northgate

As bicycle makers keep pushing the envelope on how many bike parts can be made out of carbon fiber to shave a couple grams off mega-high-budget bicycles, Seattle is looking to use similar technology for its bridges. Specifically, the city is looking into a carbon fiber design for the Northgate walk/bike bridge over I-5, which…
(read more…)

tagged: northgate, northgate station bridge, sdot
September 11, 2014

No TIGER grant for the Northgate bike/walk bridge

An attempt to quickly fill the funding gap for the Northgate bike/walk bridge has failed. Seattle and Sound Transit did not win the TIGER grant they hoped would bring in the $15 million needed to make the bridge happen, Publicola reports. TIGER is a very competitive Federal transportation grant program, and projects rarely win the…
(read more…)

tagged: northgate, northgate station, northgate station bridge, sound transit, TIGER
June 26, 2014

These Northgate kids pretty much sum up how runaway car culture creates hostile places

The culture of driving in America has little regard for people outside of cars. That’s not to say that people who drive are bad people, it’s that we collectively consider actions —such as not stopping to let someone cross the street — to be socially acceptable behavior. Most people learn to just assume people won’t…
(read more…)

tagged: komo, northgate
June 6, 2014

The Northgate bike/walk bridge designs are stunning, could be a neighborhood icon

So we’ve already established that the Northgate bike/walk bridge is a good idea from a neighborhood connectivity perspective. But another important benefit of the bridge is the chance to create a truly spectacular and maybe even iconic piece of infrastructure for Northgate. In a neighborhood known best for its mall, one of the first post-war…
(read more…)

tagged: northgate, northgate mall, northgate station, northgate station bridge, sdot, sound transit
June 2, 2014

Support the Northgate bike/walk bridge at Tuesday open house + A look at the updated concept

The Northgate bike/walk bridge is among the smartest investments the city and Sound Transit can make to both ensure that the planned light rail station maximizes its ridership and reconnect a neighborhood long divided by I-5. But I-5 is wide and elevated between North Seattle Community College and Northgate Mall/the future light rail station, raising…
(read more…)

tagged: northgate, northgate station, northgate station bridge, sdot, sound transit
March 11, 2014

Sound Transit wants feedback on Northgate Station bike plans

While the biking and walking discussions surrounding the planned Northgate Station have focused heavily on building a bike/walk bridge over I-5, there are other station design elements that affect bikeability, too. Will it be comfortable and easy to bring your bike from the street level to the station platform? Will there be enough bike parking…
(read more…)

tagged: meetings, northgate, northgate station, sound transit