Wondering what’s happening at King Street Station behind the mural-fence at S Jackson Street and 2nd Avenue S Extension? For the past few weeks workers have been demolishing the plaza in front of the Station’s red, neon sign. The 104-year-old plaza was most recently used as a private parking lot… [ Keep reading ]
Over the weekend, a whimsical turtle design took shape on the pavement in the intersection of Interlake Avenue N and N 41st Street in the Wallingford district. On Saturday, the neighbors prepared the “street canvas” by pressure washing and brush-scrubbing the roadway and then chalking in the outline of the… [ Keep reading ]
The pictures speak for themselves – although this was considered a “small project,” it made a big difference to the neighborhood. The project was requested by a resident and built by SDOT with funding from the Neighborhood Projects Fund. The fund is a city-administered program that works with communities… [ Keep reading ]
A couplet is a pair of lines working together – sometimes in poetry, sometimes in transportation. Take SDOT’s recently completed bicycle couplet in northeast Seattle for example. The two lines are Roosevelt Way NE and 11th/12th Ave NE and together they’re working to move cyclists northbound and southbound through the… [ Keep reading ]
Over the weekend a turtle will take shape on the pavement at the intersection of Interlake Avenue N and N 41st Street. You’ll get to learn more about it on the SDOT blog next week, to include photos of the big guy, but we wanted to show what the neighborhood is planning for their “street canvas” this weekend.
The NE 45th Viaduct, which closed on June 14th to replace the west approach of the bridge structure, is on target to make the September 10 completion deadline, with great progress to note. The Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) wall structure was completed on August 9th; the new cement concrete roadway surface that… [ Keep reading ]
When you are on a bike at a traffic signal, look for the T. When you put your front wheel over it, it tells the signal you are there, the same way that a car driving over the signal detection loops tells the signal they are there. It doesn’t mean… [ Keep reading ]
One of the benefits of walking in Seattle is enjoying the view, and seeing details you would never notice as you whiz by in a vehicle. Walking across the Jose Rizal Bridge feels like floating in mid air—and indeed it is, at 110 feet above Dearborn Street. The bridge connects… [ Keep reading ]
If you’ve noticed these strange looking dark green bags wrapped around the base of city-owned trees, take a closer look. Called “Tree Gators,” they irrigate the trees. SDOT’s Urban Forestry crews are hopping busy watering nearly 2,200 newly-planted trees every week. Watering trees for the first two to three summers… [ Keep reading ]
Airport Way Phase II just started August 9th and crews are already set to finish the concrete pour from Royal Brougham to S Plummer. This weekend the southbound lanes get poured (last weekend crews poured the northbound lanes). On Saturday, August 21st at 7:00 a.m. the work begins and crews will work around-the-clock (FYI, nosiest… [ Keep reading ]
