Tag: sdot

November 29, 2017

Can Seattle’s ‘Safest Driver’ app teach people to drive more responsibly?

To win Seattle’s latest app-based game, you have to NOT look at your phone while driving, obey the speed limit, and smooth out your starts and stops. On one hand, it’s a game. But it’s also a way for people to get feedback on how they are driving, something you rarely get after passing the…
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tagged: sdot, seattle’s safest driver
November 10, 2017

How a 20-something SDOT staffer took on a dying program & changed the bike share world

Kyle Rowe was still an undergrad at UW when he started working for SDOT. In a few short years, he would make himself indispensable to the department, take a career risk on a doomed bike share program and somehow turn it into a success that caught the world’s attention. Rowe is the SDOT staffer most…
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tagged: bike share, kyle rowe, sdot, spin
November 6, 2017

SDOT begins installing locally-made side guards on city trucks

Trucks are big, make wide turns and have nasty blind spots. So while they are vital for making the city function, they can also be very dangerous for people walking and biking. In a recent five-year period, USDOT found that at least 556 people walking and biking were killed in collisions specifically with the sides…
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tagged: allied body, sdot, side guards, walker blocker
November 1, 2017

Support budgets for a Georgetown/South Park trail, SDOT Equity Program, Summer Parkways + more

It is long past time to build a comfortable and safe biking and walking connection between Georgetown and South Park. These communities are so close, yet the most direct way to walk between them involves a dirt path running behind an active rail line. Biking between the communities requires biking on skinny paint-only bike lanes…
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tagged: 2018 budget, bruce harrell, cascade bicycle club, georgetown, mike o’brien, sdot, seattle neighborhood greenways, south park
October 12, 2017

The community-advised Missing Link design keeps getting better for everyone

The Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail has been debated and challenged in court for two decades, and sometimes it’s hard in such a long, frustrating process to remember what this thing is really about. On average, about two people crash badly enough every month along the Missing Link that they need emergency medical…
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tagged: ballard, burke-gilman trail, missing link, sdot
October 2, 2017

New Pike/Pine bike lanes give a taste of their potential, but have been cut too short

For four glorious blocks between 2nd and 6th Avenues, Seattle’s new bike lane on Pike Street is a strong demonstration of how a connected network of bike lanes would dramatically increase the comfort and appeal of biking downtown. You can now bike from Pioneer Square to Westlake Park and major retail destinations along 5th Ave…
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tagged: basic bike network, downtown, pike/pine, sdot