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New Bike Lanes Coming to Ballard this Summer

Biking is about to get easier and safer in Ballard.  This summer SDOT is adding bike lanes on 20th Ave NW between NW Market St and NW 65th—connecting the Ballard business district to the single family homes, apartments, condos, businesses and Salmon Bay School to the north.  The new bike… [ Keep reading ]

Know Before You Go!

  Now you can view available parking in downtown Seattle online with SDOT’s  e-Park system that provides parking guidance and real-time space availability information in the retail district of downtown.  Providing easy access to off-street, short-term parking for shoppers and visitors, e-Park monitors openings in over 4,500 parking spaces located… [ Keep reading ]

Race and Social Justice Initiative in Action at SDOT!

The Race and Social Justice (RSJ) Change Team’s mission is to provide leadership and oversight under the guidance of the City’s RSJ Initiative so that SDOT can successfully eliminate institutional racism within departmental practices, policies, programs, and procedures.  One of the Change Team focuses is community engagement. In 2010, the… [ Keep reading ]

Figuring Out What the Future Holds: SDOT and Coordinating Construction

By the time you encounter a construction project, it will have been years in the planning. In addition to the more obvious construction-related planning such as design, funding, and how it will be built, the lesser known side of planning involves coordinating the construction traffic closures and required detours that are critical to building a project. SDOT makes every effort to reduce the impact of construction on the driving public. That may sound relatively simple, but it’s much like a game of chess. Every shift of traffic can alter traffic somewhere else, sometimes in a totally unrelated area. As noted by SDOT Construction Coordinator Abby Rudell, work on I-5 can shift traffic so as to cause impacts as far as I-405, east of Lake Washington.

SDOT Makes Walking and Biking to School Safer, Easier

On May 19, SDOT invited parents, teachers and students to participate in a walking audit at Coe Elementary School.  SDOT is conducting a Safe Routes to School program at Coe that includes engineering improvements around the school as well as pedestrian safety education and a walking encouragement campaign.  During the… [ Keep reading ]

Unimproved right-of-way adds environmental value

  Have you ever noticed a street that ends abruptly in a greenbelt or wooded area, then starts again a block away?  The area where there is no street is most likely an unimproved right-of-way, and they are scattered throughout the city.  Many are overrun by invasive vegetation, but they… [ Keep reading ]

Roll your bike up the staircase

If you’ve ever carried your bike up a public stairway or clunk-clunked it along the steps–or avoided a trip by bike entirely because of that steep hill–we’ve got good news for you.  Some newer staircases in Seattle are sporting a simple design feature: a runnel, which is a narrow ledge… [ Keep reading ]