Tag: sdot

November 6, 2024

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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tagged: 2024 general election, 2024 seattle transportation levy, rita hulsman, sdot
October 31, 2024

SNGreenways storymap shows how the 2015 transportation levy ‘made Seattle a safer place for walking, biking and rolling’

The 2015 Move Seattle Levy added nearly 100 miles to Seattle’s bike network, repaired or replaced 44 public staircases, built 1,600 new accessible curb ramps, made 293 transit improvements, repaired 220 blocks of sidewalk and built 350 new blocks of sidewalk. This is in addition to all the other road and bridge maintenance work. It’s…
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tagged: 2024 seattle transportation levy, move seattle levy, sdot, seattle neighborhood greenways
October 28, 2024

SDOT set to start Aurora-Licton Springs healthy streets upgrades on N 100th St, Fremont Ave N

SDOT is starting work on a series of new and upgraded healthy streets in the Aurora-Licton Springs area that will connect to the existing 1st Avenue NW healthy street and upgrade the regional Interurban North bike route on Fremont Avenue N. Planned upgrades to connect the route to the John Lewis Memorial walk/bike bridge to…
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tagged: healthy streets, licton springs, sdot
October 25, 2024

Alert 10/25-27: Spokane Street swing bridge to West Seattle closed

The Spokane Street swing bridge (AKA the lower West Seattle Bridge) is closed to biking, walking and driving until 10 p.m. Sunday (October 27). There is no official bicycle detour. The only bike route alternative without the Spokane Street Bridge is to ride many miles out of the way through busy industrial streets to the…
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tagged: Bike Route Alert, lower west seattle bridge, sdot, west seattle
October 14, 2024

Saturday: Celebrate the opening of the 6th Ave NW neighborhood greenway with a community bike ride

Do you often find yourself reluctantly biking on busy 8th Ave NW and its incomplete and skinny door zone bike lanes? Well then, you have something to celebrate Saturday. SDOT will cut the ribbon on a new neighborhood greenway on 6th Avenue NW from Leary Way to the NW 58th Street neighborhood greenway Saturday (October…
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tagged: 6th ave nw, ballard, sdot
October 8, 2024

The shovels are in the dirt, so Eastlake bike lanes are really happening

Seattle leadership across three mayors have supported building bike lanes on Eastlake Ave as part of the RapidRide J project, but you just never know what might happen before the shovels hit the dirt. Well, the shovels are officially in the dirt now, and at the groundbreaking celebration today (October 8) Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell…
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tagged: bruce harrell, eastlake, rapidride j, sdot