Tag: south park

June 26, 2018

Lower West Seattle Bridge reopens, but closure highlighted major need for Sodo bike lanes

UPDATE: The Lower Spokane St Bridge is back open again to all pedestrian, bicycle and vehicle traffic! Thank you to everyone for your patience and understanding. — seattleDOTbridges (@SDOTbridges) June 26, 2018 The lower West Seattle Bridge has reopened following a more than five-day emergency repair of the vital biking and walking connection between West…
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tagged: 1st ave s, allentown, duwamish valley, duwamish valley safe streets, georgetown, marginal way, sdot, south park, west seattle
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
April 26, 2017

Options for a redesigned E Marginal Way + Regional leadership needed to connect to S King County

Today is the last day to comment on SDOT’s E Marginal Way online open house. The city is working on a major reconstruction and redesign of the industrial street that also serves as one of the most vital bike connections for West Seattle, the Duwamish Valley and beyond. As a regional bike route, the street…
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tagged: alki trail, allentown, auburn, don brubeck, duwamish valley, georgetown, kent, king county, lance david, marginal way, south king county, south park, southcenter, tukwila, west seattle, west seattle bike connections
March 5, 2015

South Park trail celebration is Saturday

As we reported previously, the South Park neighborhood now has a way better connection to the Duwamish Trail. You can join community members, Councilmember Tom Rasmussen and other city officials for an opening celebration Saturday. Meet 10 a.m. at the super cool little park at S Portland Street and 8th Ave S. Cascade Bicycle Club…
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tagged: duwamish trail, south park, tom rasmussen
February 23, 2015

First look: South Park’s new connection to the Duwamish Trail

The city has completed a new connection between the South Park neighborhood and the Duwamish Trail. Officially, it is a multi-use trail because it is open to both walking and biking. But it certainly feels like the city’s newest and southernmost modern bikeway. Fully separated from S Portland Street’s truck traffic, the trail provides a…
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tagged: duwamish trail, south park, south park bridge
June 30, 2014

South Park Bridge is now open, bike lanes ‘protected’ for a week

The rebuilt South Park Bridge is now open, improving access to the neighborhood and creating a link in what could someday be a very bikeable place to live, work and play. For at least the first week, cones will guide motor vehicle traffic into one lane in each direction, providing a rather luxurious buffer area…
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tagged: green river trail, king county, s portland st, sdot, south park, south park bridge