Tag: sr 99

August 2, 2024

In July, Lime bikes and scooters carried half as many trips as the $2B SR-99 tunnel

People in Seattle took 24,118 trips on Lime bikes and scooters every day on average during the month of July. That is nearly five times the average weekday ridership for both Seattle Streetcar lines combined, and it’s about half the average number of vehicles using the $2 billion SR-99 tunnel under downtown (47,291 average vehicles…
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tagged: bike share, deep bore tunnel, limebike, scooter share, sr 99
December 30, 2021

South Park community group seeks to reclaim neighborhood land from a harmful, redundant highway

South Park has some of the most harmful air quality of any residential neighborhood in Seattle and King County, and it doesn’t take long to figure out where a lot of it comes from: The freeway that splits the neighborhood in two. It’s a story that has been repeated many times across the city and…
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tagged: cultivate south park, reconnect south park, south park, sr 99
January 16, 2019

We have just proven that Seattle doesn’t need a highway tunnel or massive waterfront road

So it turns out that when people across the Seattle region plan ahead and change their transportation habits, we can prove to ourselves that we don’t need SR 99 to go through downtown after all. After months of news stories about how terrible traffic would be once the Viaduct closed for good, traffic during the…
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tagged: jenny durkan, sr 99, surviverealign99
January 14, 2019

Aside from some untreated ice patches, biking was a great way around Day 1 without SR 99

Biking around the city this morning was amazing. Sure, the weather helped a lot, with clear skies and a jaw-dropping sunrise fueling my ride to join the SE Seattle Bike Train. No matter how many times I experience it, the beauty of this place always inspires me while biking around town. But it was also…
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tagged: sr 99, surviverealign99
January 9, 2019

Waterfront bike routes will remain open during upcoming SR 99 closure

Waterfront bike routes, including the path under the Viaduct along Alaskan Way downtown, will remain open during the upcoming SR 99 closure, SDOT confirmed today. We have received a lot of questions in the past week from folks wondering is the Viaduct closure would also close their bike route, and it was difficult to find…
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tagged: heather marx, reallign99, sr 99
April 4, 2017

Seattle still doesn’t need a downtown car tunnel, but crews deserve a victory lap today

Seattle Bike Blog has been opposed to the downtown car tunnel since this site started in 2010, and we still are. It’s an enormous investment in unsustainable transportation that will likely make downtown and South Lake Union traffic worse. It’s a massive greenhouse gas generator with very little utility for transit and no utility for walking and…
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tagged: alaskan way viaduct, deep bore tunnel, ed murray, sr 99, wsdot