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Alki Summer Streets May 22 – It’s everybody’s street… Imagine the possibilities!

Alki Summer Streets is happening in less than two weeks– Sun., May 22 11am-5pm.  We’ll be turning the street in the Alki business district into a place for people.  So come out and play, hang out, celebrate, relax—whatever you want to do. Lots of activities, Alki businesses, local community groups,… [ Keep reading ]

Transit Master Plan proposes 15 priority corridors for a closer look

The Transit Master Plan project team met with the Council’s Transportation Committee this morning to propose 15 corridors for further analysis. These 15 corridors represent only a small portion of the existing transit network, but they form an important backbone for the system. After all, when you’re in a time… [ Keep reading ]

Watch your step!

Art is finding its way to more and more locations throughout the city and in many surprising places – even spicing up sidewalks in several neighborhood business districts. Many SDOT projects do not have a “1% for Art” public art project associated with them, but can still benefit from some aesthetic enhancement. … [ Keep reading ]

Citywide Pedestrian and Bicycle Counts Next Week

SDOT will be conducting pedestrian and bicycle volume counts at more than 50 locations across Seattle from May 10th to May 12th as part of the National Bicycle & Pedestrian Documentation Project.  Following a consistent, nationally recognized methodology will improve the quality and consistency of our data, and also increase… [ Keep reading ]

Last chance to plant

  Despite our cool spring, we are approaching the end of spring tree planting season.  Planting a tree is a shock to its system, so it’s best to ease it in to its new home.  Planting early in the spring before its leaves are out works well.  This refers to… [ Keep reading ]

City goes Platinum! Seattle tops the charts–for walkability.

Seattle was recently designated a platinum-level Walk Friendly Community. Walk Friendly Communities is a national program that recognizes cities for their commitment to walkability and pedestrian safety. Awards were given at the platinum, gold, silver and bronze level, and we stood alone as the only platinum award winner. The judges were especially… [ Keep reading ]

What’s a Seawall alternative?

  The Elliott Bay Seawall Project has developed two alternatives for environmental analysis, which were presented to the City Council on April 25. But what does that really mean? Well, it means that we have two “bookend” alternatives to replace the seawall that cover a range of impacts, providing time… [ Keep reading ]

Now you see it – now you don’t…

What? The kiosk at the southwest corner of Fifth Avenue and Union in Downtown Seattle – you hadn’t noticed it was gone?  That’s why it was removed.  A “relic” of the late 70’s, it no longer was serving its intended purpose.  One of five kiosks from Pine to Seneca on… [ Keep reading ]