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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…
Alert: It is once again time to voice overwhelming support for a safer Lake Washington Blvd
Even the dramatically watered-down and insufficient traffic calming improvements planned for Lake Washington Boulevard are now apparently at risk after pushback from “people who enjoy driving as fast as they want along the boulevard,” as Seattle Neighborhood Greenways put it. Neighbors have campaigned for years about the need for safer walking and biking space on…
You can finally file bike facility maintenance requests via SDOT’s Find It, Fix It app
SDOT’s Find It, Fix It app is surprisingly powerful. You can report a pothole or broken walk signal or broken bicycle detector and SDOT crews will look into the issue as part of their regular maintenance process. Sometimes, you get results within days. Sometimes, especially if the problem is extensive, it does not get fixed,…
Beacon Hill community group’s recommended bike detours during 15th Ave S construction
SDOT is hard at work building a major improvement to bicycle access on Beacon Hill: Protected bike lanes on 15th Ave S and Beacon Ave S. When completed, this will be one of Seattle’s most important bike route improvements in years. But first, folks need to get through construction. The city’s official bicycle detour points…
Seattle prepares to pass budget with huge increases for safe streets + What CM Saka should do about Delridge
Thanks to Seattle voters, in 2025 the city is poised to invest $21 million in new sidewalks, $4.2 million in sidewalk repairs, $8.6 million in Vision Zero, $1.6 million in Safe Routes to School, $9.8 million in new protected bike lanes, and $1 million to upgrade existing bike lane barriers. To deliver all this, they…
Seattle voters approve at least $487M for safe streets
The Seattle Transportation Levy appears to be sailing to a landslide victory after the initial drop of ballots showed the measure passing with 67% of the vote, a margin that could grow as more ballots are counted. Over eight years, the levy promises to invest more than $160 million in Vision Zero, $193 million in…
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