Tag: sdot

May 27, 2020

Alert: Lower Spokane Street Bridge will close overnight May 29-31

The lower Spokane Street Bridge to West Seattle, a vital lifeline for the neighborhood since the upper West Seattle Bridge closed, will itself close for evening-to-overnight work Friday, Saturday and maybe Sunday. That means anyone biking will need to detour to the 1st Ave S Bridge. Yikes. And unfortunately, the closures are scheduled to start…
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tagged: Bike Route Alert, lower west seattle bridge, sdot, west seattle
May 19, 2020

The future 15th Ave NE bike lanes won’t actually reach Lake City Way, docs show

Designs for the 15th Ave NE paving project are compete, and they include bike lanes from (almost) Lake City Way to NE 55th Street, most of which are protected bike lanes. There’s a lot to like about the project, which will add a lot of connectivity to the area. But the bike protection disappears in…
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tagged: 15th Ave NE, sdot
May 18, 2020

Some more details on the MLK Way S bike lane options + How to choose between one-way and two-way bike lanes

I already wrote about the MLK Jr Way S bike lane concepts, but SDOT gave a few more details about the project during the May Bicycle Advisory Board meeting (PDF) that are worth sharing. First, some background. SDOT is conducting some early planning for bike lanes on MLK between S Judkins St and Rainier Ave…
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tagged: accessible mt baker, mlk way, protected bike lanes, sdot
May 12, 2020

Car driving is down 91% from pre-outbreak levels on the city’s new Stay Healthy Streets

It made national news last week when Seattle announced that the Stay Healthy Streets (“SHS”) program would be transitioning from an emergency program to a permanent program. For example, a CNN headline read: “Seattle to permanently close 20 miles of streets to traffic so residents can exercise and bike on them.” And yes, the Stay…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, jenny durkan, sdot, seattle neighborhood greenways, stay healthy streets
May 6, 2020

City develops emergency plan in case the West Seattle Bridge falls

The city of course hopes it never comes to this, but they are planning for a worst case scenario in which the bridge becomes so unstable it could collapse. After studying the extensive cracking on the West Seattle High Bridge that prompted its emergency closure in late March, SDOT has installed monitoring devices to alert…
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tagged: lower west seattle bridge, sdot, upper west seattle bridge, west seattle
April 23, 2020

City announces new and expanded Stay Healthy Streets in the CD, Beacon Hill, Greenwood and Rainier Beach

Seattle has added six more miles of what the city is calling “Stay Healthy Streets,” car-light streets where through-traffic is banned and people are allowed to walk in the street 24/7. They are part of an effort to create more space so people can stay socially distant from others while still getting outside. People are…
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tagged: sdot, seattle neighborhood greenways, stay healthy streets