Tag: sodo

January 3, 2023

SDOT will begin installing ‘temporary protected bike lanes’ in SoDo this week

SDOT will create temporary bike lanes to fill a gap in the Duwamish Trail and to improve safety on a significant stretch of 1st Avenue S in SoDo while crews work to repair the Spokane Street Bridge to West Seattle. Work will begin Wednesday. As we wrote in a post last week, “Creating two miles…
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tagged: 1st ave s, emergency bike lanes, lower west seattle bridge, sdot, sodo
December 27, 2022

Alert: The Spokane Street Bridge will be closed ‘at least two weeks’

SDOT posted an update Tuesday evening with terrible news for people who walk or bike between mainland Seattle and West Seattle: The Spokane Street Bridge, the lower swing bridge with the biking and walking path, will be out of commission for “at least two weeks,” according to the SDOT Blog. The Alki Water Taxi was…
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tagged: lower west seattle bridge, sdot, sodo, west seattle
August 23, 2022

Cascade lists their 5 top-priority Seattle bike projects

Cascade Bicycle Club recently posted their top 5 Seattle bike improvement priorities, though it’s really more like like 4 projects and a citywide plan. They go into more detail about each in their blog post, so go check it out. Here’s the list: Georgetown to Downtown Bike Connection West Marginal Way Bike Connection Seattle Waterfront…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, georgetown to downtown bike connection, marginal way, missing link, seattle transportation plan, sodo, waterfront
May 12, 2022

Person killed while biking in SoDo just a block from site of January death

A person driving a Jeep struck and killed someone biking in SoDo Wednesday morning, according to Seattle Police. The driver of the Jeep was trying to exit a parking lot onto 4th Avenue near Holgate Street, and told police they were looking south for a break in traffic so they could turn north onto 4th.…
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tagged: 4th ave s, deaths, holgate, sodo, spd, tammy morales
August 17, 2018

Police release video of person snipping bike share brake cables

Seattle Police have released a surveillance video of a person in Sodo seen snipping bike share brake cables on more than one occasion, and they’re asking for the public’s help identifying the suspect. For months, brake cables on bike share bike have been cut all over the city, posing a very serious safety hazard for…
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tagged: bike share, crime, sodo, spd
August 9, 2018

West Seattle Link might destroy the Sodo Trail, but that could be a good thing

SDOT has been planning an extension of the Sodo Trail to reach Spokane St under the West Seattle Bridge for a while now, but that work could take a major turn if Sound Transit chooses a West Seattle light rail alignment that displaces some or all of the existing trail. At this point, the project…
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tagged: 4th ave s, 6th ave s, sodo, sodo trail, sound transit, st3