Tag: sdot

September 11, 2024

Seattle will pay $5.75M to two people who say streetcar tracks caused their bike crashes

Even after a series of widely-publicized crashes on the Jackson Street streetcar tracks years prior, the City of Seattle failed to make the street reasonably safe for people riding bikes. So after Janet Ball and Eric Boris crashed there in two separate incidents in 2019, they sued the city for negligence. The city settled the…
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tagged: alta planning + design, catherine fleming, eric boris, first hill streetcar, lawsuit, sdot
August 26, 2024

‘Our kid is biking on MLK!’

The new bike lanes on MLK Jr. Way from S Judkins Street to Mount Baker Station feel like a shortcut. It’s both more direct and more gradual than any of the alternative bike route options previously available. You no longer need to scale the cliffside up to Leschi to get between Franklin High School and…
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tagged: central district, I-90 trail, mlk way, mount baker station, sdot, seattle neighborhood greenways
August 20, 2024

Seattle decided 9 years ago to kill the SLU Streetcar

The South Lake Union Streetcar broke down Friday, August 9, and nobody even noticed until King County Metro and SDOT sent out a press release about it the next Monday. Like, I searched through social media posts and could not find a single person mentioning issues riding the streetcar line the entire weekend that it…
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tagged: center city connector, rapidride j, rob saka, sdot, south lake union, streetcars
August 15, 2024

Let SDOT know the Market/Leary Burke-Gilman route needs to separate walking and biking near storefronts

It is a great idea to redesign Leary Way NW and NW Market Street so they are safer for everyone while also connecting the Burke-Gilman Trail through Ballard, but SDOT’s current design needs significant work in order to achieve those goals. SDOT has not released any new details about Councilmember Dan Strauss’ Market/Leary plan since…
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tagged: ballard, burke-gilman trail, dan strauss, leary way, market st, missing link, sdot
August 5, 2024

New protected bike lanes on MLK connect the I-90 Trail to Mount Baker Station + BSC video

Crews have finished work on a project that makes it much easier and safer to walk or bike between the I-90 Trail and Mount Baker light rail station. Perhaps most importantly, the project made some significant crosswalk upgrades at the complicated and dangerous intersection of Rainier, MLK and Mount Baker Blvd near Franklin High School.…
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tagged: accessible mt baker, best side cycling, central district, mlk way, mount baker station, mt baker, sdot
July 19, 2024

Study: Seattle Vision Zero projects do not harm local businesses

Seattle’s Vision Zero road safety redesign projects have not had a negative impact on local businesses, according to a study by University of Washington researchers published in the peer-reviewed journal Injury Prevention (PDF) earlier this year. “Results suggest that road safety improvement projects such as those in Vision Zero plans are not associated with adverse…
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tagged: andrew l dannenberg, daniel r osterhage, injury prevention, paul a fishman, sdot, vision zero