Tag: sdot

October 27, 2023

It’s happeningggggggg!!!!!!!!!

via SDOT Director Greg Spotts. For background on what’s happening here, see our previous story. UPDATE: I biked there so I could touch it myself to confirm it’s real. It is. However, I now see that this looks like a blurry Big Foot photo from a hunt for the mythical Missing Link. Oooh, there’s a…
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tagged: ballard, ballard terminal railroad, greg spotts, meeker southern railroad, missing link, sdot
October 27, 2023

SDOT finalizes RapidRide J design with complete Eastlake bike lanes, plans to begin construction in summer 2024

Seattle has completed the design for the RapidRide J project, which includes complete and protected bike lanes on Eastlake Ave. The design even includes protected bike lanes on the block immediately south of the University Bridge, which was lacking protection in an earlier design. Thanks to many years of persistent advocacy, the project is poised…
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tagged: 11th ave ne, 12th ave ne, eastlake, eastlake community council, fairview ave n, rapidride j, sdot, university bridge, university district
October 25, 2023

Council approves deal to pave over the Missing Link tracks under the Ballard Bridge

Within hours after the City Council approved a deal with the railroad now formerly known as the Ballard Terminal Railroad Tuesday, SDOT crews had already marked out the area under the Ballard Bridge where they plan to pave over both the railroad tracks and gravel pits in order to create a safe bicycle pathway. Work…
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tagged: ballard, ballard terminal railroad, burke-gilman trail, dan strauss, meeker southern railroad, missing link, sdot
October 23, 2023

E Marginal Way remake delayed due to old railroad agreement confusion

Confusion over the rights to a mostly unused and perhaps even forgotten rail line has delayed work on a major designed and funded remake of East Marginal Way between downtown and the West Seattle bridges. As we reported in April, the contract for construction has been awarded with work scheduled to begin right about now.…
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tagged: bnsf, marginal way, megan hoyt, port of seattle, s hanford street, s horton street, sdot, union pacific
October 11, 2023

Seattle reaches agreement with railroad to pave over dangerous tracks under the Ballard Bridge

In a surprise development in the long, injurious and frustrating history of the Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail, Councilmember Dan Strauss announced Tuesday an agreement with the Ballard Terminal Railroad Company that should set the city up to pave over the rarely used tracks near and under the Ballard Bridge. “This is a…
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tagged: ballard, ballard bridge, ballard terminal railroad, dan strauss, meeker southern railroad, missing link, nw 45th st, sdot
October 10, 2023

SDOT reopens Spokane Street Swing Bridge 4 days early

Here’s some great news for people who walk or bike to and from West Seattle: SDOT has completed work on the Spokane Street Swing Bridge in just half the time they originally estimated. The bridge is now operational, and the vital trail it carries is open. The bridge was closed October 7 to install a…
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tagged: lower west seattle bridge, sdot, west seattle