Tag: road diets

July 26, 2010

Reminder: Open house today to discuss bike lanes on NE 125th

In another road tailoring project, SDOT is holding an open house today to show off changes to NE 125th Street between Roosevelt and 35th NE. The open house is from 4-7 p.m. at the Lake City Library. From our previous post:
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tagged: lake city, ne 125th, open houses, road diets, road tailoring, sdot
July 26, 2010

After Mercer Island road changes scrapped, another teen is hit by car

Ira Appleman ran for the Mercer Island City Council with his opposition to changes to Island Crest Way as the key to his campaign. He lost. The council originally voted to go ahead with the controversial road changes, which would have changed the four-lane road into one in each direction and a turn lane. Then,…
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tagged: ira appleman, island crest way, mercer island, pedestrians, road diets, road tailoring, safety
July 24, 2010

Survey Says: Without my car lanes I’ll die!

Seattle does want bike lanes … but not if they take lanes away from cars. This is according to a survey by Survey USA. Only 46 percent of respondents said the city needs more bikes lanes (43 percent say the city has enough). However, if you mention taking out car lanes, people knee jerk and…
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tagged: publicola, road diets, road tailoring, surveys
July 21, 2010

Open house in Georgetown tonight to present Ellis/Albro changes

View Larger Map SDOT is holding an open house this evening to show their plans to “complete” a stretch in Georgetown that (nearly) connects Marginal Way and Airport Way. The open house, held from 5-7 at the Old Georgetown City Hall (map), will discuss changes to 0.7 miles of Ellis Ave S and S Albro…
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tagged: airport, ellis, georgetown, marginal way, parking, road diets, sdot
July 20, 2010

Road diet proposed for NE 125th, open house Monday

View Larger Map SDOT will hold an open house Monday, July 26 to give a glimpse at plans to reconfigure a 1.3 mile stretch of NE 125th between Roosevelt and 35th Ave NE. The plans sound similar to other so called “road diets” the city has seen recently.
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tagged: admiral, bike lanes, ne 125th, nickerson, road diets, sdot, stone way
July 19, 2010

Nickerson ‘road diet’ work to start next week

Work on Nickerson is scheduled to begin next week. This comes after a brief fight over the proposal, which will eliminate a traffic lane in each direction and add a center turn lane, a bicycle lane and safe crosswalks. Resistance was put to rest, largely because of an SDOT study showing the success of a…
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tagged: nickerson, publicola, road diets, sdot, stone way