Tag: waterfront seattle

September 20, 2024

There’s finally a bike lane through the brick section of Pine St near Westlake Park

There is now a complete and connected protected bike lane on Pine Street from Melrose Ave to 1st Ave. It addresses the awful intersection with Boren Ave and as of this past week includes a bike lane through the brick-paved section near Westlake Park. The change is part of the larger Pike Pine Streetscape and…
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tagged: pine, sdot, waterfront seattle, westlake park
August 23, 2023

New and upgraded Elliott Bay Trail will be privately funded

A group of philanthropists will fully fund a $45 million set of upgrades to the downtown waterfront north of Pier 62, where the existing under-construction Waterfront Park project ends. The Elliott Bay Connections project includes cove and park improvements in Centennial and Myrtle Edwards Parks as well as a new walking and biking trail along…
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tagged: alaskan way, belltown, centennial park, diller-von furestenburg family foundation, elliott bay connections, expedia, mackenzie scott, melinda french gates, myrtle edwards park, waterfront, waterfront seattle
May 12, 2023

A traffic jam on Seattle’s new Belltown Neighborhood Highway

It is the year 2023, and Seattle just opened a new highway through the dense and walkable Belltown neighborhood. For five years, there was no connection between Alaskan Way on the waterfront and Western Ave in Belltown, and traffic was working about at well as it ever does. But this month, Seattle opened a new…
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tagged: belltown, videos, waterfront seattle, western ave
November 1, 2016

Seattle’s planned waterfront highway takes major step forward. It must be stopped.

It is 2016. Nearly every month this year reached the hottest global average on record. Cities across the world and across our nation are working to remove downtown highways that divide and depress their vital economic and cultural centers. Yet Seattle of all places is still preparing to build a new surface highway between the…
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tagged: alaskan way viaduct, waterfront, waterfront seattle