Tag: sdot

March 6, 2019

Family of Derek Blaylock files suit against city, Sound Transit and contractors after 2016 death near Northgate Station

Derek Blaylock drove his son to school the morning of September 21, 2016, then grabbed his bike and rode to Northgate Transit Center to catch a bus to work. On the way home, he was biking from the transit center along 1st Ave NE next to a construction barrier set up for work on the…
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tagged: deaths, derek blaylock, northgate, northgate station, sdot, sound transit
February 8, 2019

People walk across street at crosswalk

There were zero pedestrians counted at this Ballard intersection on a Tuesday in January. It was built late last year as part of bus enhancement project. We counted again on Tuesday in January and usage meets the MUTCD threshold for a pedestrian signal per our Vision Zero Team. pic.twitter.com/C5THJUVkeU — Dongho Chang (@dongho_chang) January 30,…
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tagged: angie schmitt, dongho chang, sdot, streetsblog, traffic engineering
February 6, 2019

Redesigned Northgate bike/walk bridge construction should start middle of this year

Crossing I-5 in Northgate is terrible today. The freeway divides the neighborhood, and the few places where crossing on foot or bike is possible are either far apart or very stressful. So as the region prepares to open a light rail station and Northgate Mall prepares for significant redevelopment, including a lot of new housing,…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, northgate, northgate station, sdot, sound transit
February 5, 2019

City advances plans for N 34th St redesign in Fremont + Take the survey

SDOT is moving forward with a plan to redesign N 34th Street between Stone Way and the Fremont Bridge, a major connection in the regional bike network linking the Burke-Gilman Trail to the Fremont Bridge. Though the most popular option for the street during initial outreach was a two-way bike lane on the south side…
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tagged: fremont, N 34th St, sdot
December 19, 2018

Mayor nominates Sam Zimbabwe to be next SDOT Director

Mayor Jenny Durkan has nominated Washington DC’s Sam Zimbabwe to be the next Director of SDOT, emphasizing his experience in project delivery and multimodal urban planning during a Tuesday press conference. If the City Council confirms him quickly, Zimbabwe could be on the job in the middle of January. That means he will get the…
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tagged: jenny durkan, sam zimbabwe, sdot
December 4, 2018

Under Mayor Durkan, Seattle has only built about 4% of its 2018 bike lane goal

Under Mayor Jenny Durkan, Seattle has nearly stopped building bike lanes. With the need to build more than ten miles of protected bike lanes in order to reach the Move Seattle Levy’s bike lane goals, SDOT says it will have constructed 1.88 miles in 2018. That is a pitiful 18 percent. But the truth is…
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tagged: bicycle master plan, jenny durkan, move seattle levy, sdot