Find Posts By Topic

Posts categorized under May 2014 - SDOT Blog

Archives for May 2014

New Parklet Just Around the Corner!

Wondering what’s being built at the corner of 6th Ave S and S Weller St? That’s the new Chinatown/International District parklet! Hosted by the Chinatown/International District Business Improvement Area (CIDBIA) and located outside Oasis Tea Zone, the parklet is set to open next week and will be the second parklet… [ Keep reading ]

June 3rd Open House for the Northgate Pedestrian and Bicycle Bridge

We’d like to hear your thoughts on the concepts we’ve developed for Northgate Pedestrian and Bicycle Bridge before we move into design. So, please come to our open house next week to see models of some of the preliminary design concepts, comment on the selection criteria we’ll use to… [ Keep reading ]

Play Streets are coming to Seattle!

Looking for something new to do with your street? Consider joining SDOT’s Pilot Play Streets Program! So what is a “play street,” exactly? It’s just what it sounds like. With a free permit, you can temporarily close your street to traffic so that you and your neighbors can… [ Keep reading ]

Record rains give way to record number of cyclists on the roads and trails!

National Bike Month comes to a close this week and what a month it has been! Aided by stretches of nice (mostly dry!) weather we have seen record numbers of cyclists taking to the roads and trails around Seattle. The increase can be attributed to many things, however the Bridging… [ Keep reading ]

City Offices are closed for the Memorial Day Holiday

Today  is a federal holiday in which we honor the those who have died while serving in the United States military.  Originally Memorial Day began as an event honoring Union soldiers who had died during the American Civil War.  After World War I, it was extended to include all men… [ Keep reading ]

Memorial Day Weekend Ushers in 100 Days to be Extra-Super-Safe

Ah, Memorial Day weekend. Three days of long-awaited travel, the outdoors and reveling in the return of sunshine. This unofficial start of summer, as Memorial Day is often deemed, also marks an especially notorious stretch of 100 days on Washington’s roadways that spans Independence Day and Labor Day weekend. According… [ Keep reading ]

A Bicycle Trail through an Industrial Area

(No, not THAT industrial area…) The West Duwamish Trail will soon be extended through the South Park industrial area, in a project that combines building a trail where there are no sidewalks, a road where there is no asphalt or drainage – where storms leave small lakes. The work, to be done… [ Keep reading ]

Imagine Biking Along the New Waterfront

Can you imagine biking along the new waterfront? Would you use a bike path to commute to work? The Office of the Waterfront is currently designing and planning for a brand new bike trail and bike facility that will be installed along the west side of Alaskan Way for everyone… [ Keep reading ]

Westlake Cycle Track Update: Open house on Wednesday, May 21

You’re invited to the Westlake Cycle Track open house on May 21. Join us to learn more about the project goal and objectives; talk with project staff; see traffic circulation and parking utilization data; and provide input about this unique corridor and what should be considered as a bike route… [ Keep reading ]

Record number of bicycle trips made last week

Way to go Seattle. With a dose of good weather, many Seattleites chose a healthy bike ride as the way to travel last week. We set new one week highs according to our counters at Fremont and Spokane.  For the week of May 12, 32,427 people rode bikes over… [ Keep reading ]