Tag: sdot

September 9, 2020

SDOT: Keep Moving Streets extended until October 5

Seattle’s car-light Keep Moving Streets have been a success, so the city has extended them another month. Created in partnership between SDOT and Seattle Parks, the city’s four Keep Moving Streets are typically on arterial streets near parks or along waterways that don’t have enough sidewalk space to safety handle all the people who want…
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tagged: keep moving streets, sdot
September 2, 2020

Construction begins soon on initial segment of the 4th Ave bike lane

Crews are gearing up to build a protected bike lane on 4th Ave between Pine and Madison Streets downtown. This is the start of the second north-south bike corridor downtown and a key piece of the Basic Bike Network vision, which would build a connected web of protected bike lanes from Seattle Center to the…
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tagged: 4th ave, basic bike network, sdot
September 1, 2020

Seattle finally builds protected bike lane on stretch of Yesler where Desiree McCloud died in 2016

New pbl revisions on Yesler pic.twitter.com/nADh4npo2N — Dongho Chang (@dongho_chang) August 30, 2020 SDOT has installed protected bike lanes on Yesler Way between 14th and 12th Avenues, part of a project to further protect and separate the bike lanes from the First Hill Streetcar tracks in the area. But this two-block stretch fulfills a heavy…
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tagged: cody mccloud, desiree mccloud, first hill streetcar, sdot, yesler
August 24, 2020

Scooter share permit gets committee approval + How the system would work

Seattle is finally maybe going to give shared scooters a try. The City Council Utilities and Transportation Committee voted last week to approve two ordinances that would allow SDOT to launch a scooter permit program (Council bills 119867 and 119868). Councilmembers Strauss, González and Morales voted in favor, Pederson opposed. The ordinances still need to…
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tagged: city council, joel miller, sam zimbabwe, scooter share, sdot
August 13, 2020

SDOT is studying options for fixing or replacing aging Magnolia bridge. No, not the one you’re thinking of.

As you emerge from the tree cover on a bridge high above the train tracks, it’s easy to feel like you’ve found a magical secret hidden deep within Seattle. The 33rd Ave W Bridge is an old biking and walking bridge connecting W Government Way in Magnolia (not far from the main Discovery Park entrance)…
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tagged: 33rd ave w bridge, Ballard Locks, magnolia, sdot
August 12, 2020

SDOT starts design work on major Beacon Hill bike route – UPDATED

UPDATE: Here’s the video of the city’s presentation: Beacon Hill has one street that cuts across the grid to be the most direct route and is less steep than other streets nearby: Beacon Ave S. Even with hardly any bike infrastructure at all, Beacon Ave is a fairly well-used bike route because it’s just the…
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tagged: beacon ave, beacon hill, sdot