Tag: sdot

September 14, 2015

Seattle will let neighborhoods design their own crosswalks

Remember when community members painted crosswalks in the Central District the colors of the Pan-African flag earlier this summer? We praised the city for making them official rather than trying to clean them off. Well, now the city has gone one step further. Today, SDOT announced a new program to allow neighborhoods to officially implement…
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tagged: community crosswalks, department of neighborhoods, pan-african flag, sdot, united hood movement
September 9, 2015

Banning turns-on-red is an exciting first step to taking back our crosswalks

We’ve all been there. You get the walk signal and step off the curb. But the person driving keeps inching towards you. You try to make eye contact, but they are looking left for a break in traffic, still inching forward. They don’t even know you are in front of their grill. Will they see…
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tagged: downtown, kuow, right turns on red, sdot, vision zero
September 3, 2015

Dearborn bike lane improvements will connect downtown to I-90 Trail, SE Seattle bike routes – UPDATED

Dearborn Street is both flat and useful. So even though it is not packed with destinations itself and though it serves the motor vehicle network mostly as a way to access I-5 and haul freight, it is also a highly desireable bike route. It connects downtown neighborhoods to bike routes in central and southeast Seattle,…
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tagged: dearborn st, international district, protected bike lanes, sdot
August 7, 2015

Community members paint Pan-African flag crosswalk. Rather than fight it, city makes it official

Around the time of the annual Umoja Fest Africatown Heritage Parade earlier this month, some folks including the United Hood Movement went out and painted several crosswalks in the Central District red, black and green, the colors of the Pan-African flag. The action calls attention to what many people who grew up in the Central…
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tagged: africatown, capitol hill seattle, central district, king 5, pan-african flag, pete holmes, scott kubly, sdot, umoja fest, united hood movement
July 9, 2015

City and contractor rethinking sudden 2nd Ave bike lane closure

The moment fences went up blocking the 2nd Ave protected bike lane just south of Pike Street, I started getting tweets and emails from baffled people who, rather than having a protected bike lane were detoured mid-block into the general traffic lane: Holy cow @seattledot, that bike lane closure on 2nd Ave is brutal. @seabikeblog…
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tagged: 2nd ave, construction, dongho chang, sdot
July 7, 2015

75 neighborhoods turn boring streets into Play Streets, city renews program pilot

There is only one space that truly connects every home on a block: The street. For a generation or two, most streets have been surrendered to the movement and storage of cars. Kids are taught to be afraid of streets and to stay out, as though there were an alligator pit between them and their…
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tagged: play streets, public space management program, sdot