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When It Snows, We’re Ready to Go!

Summer weather has departed and cooler weather is upon us – it’s time to prepare for winter. Today, SDOT announced our new winter storm response plan. We are working to ensure that our team is up for whatever challenge winter throws our way. Going into this storm season, we’ve already… [ Keep reading ]

West Seattle Junction Parking Draft Recommendations

Parking in WSJ has been studied this year to better identify current conditions. Results have been reviewed with the community and draft recommendations are now ready to be shared. A mailer detailing the recommended changes is going out to residents this week. For details on the parking study and what… [ Keep reading ]

‘Tis the Season for Tree Planting

If you were to pick one week out of the calendar year as the best week to plant a street tree in Seattle, the week of October 5-11 would be in the running.   Trees are moving into their dormant season and weather conditions are cool, allowing plants to establish roots… [ Keep reading ]

Building Parks between Cars…For a Day

Last month, SDOT participated for the first time in Park(ing) Day. On this day, parking spaces around the city, and world, become parks, where people could play games, socialize, and generally return more of the city streets to pedestrians for a day. SDOT’s goal was to help share information on… [ Keep reading ]

One Thousand Five Hundred Eighty One

You’re probably wondering what this number represents.  Is it the number of miles of roadway in Seattle?  Or perhaps it’s the length of the Aurora Bridge?  Actually, 1,581 is the number of collisions that have occurred on Aurora Avenue North in the past three years.  That works out to about… [ Keep reading ]

It’s a wrap!

            We’ve got some great photos of the recently completed 16th Ave. SW project. It involved reconstruction and minor widening of the roadway on 16th Avenue SW between SW Findlay Street and SW Brandon Street. Work included: • roadway pavement removal and replacement • drainage improvements… [ Keep reading ]