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Flashing Beacons Emphasize School Speed Limit on 35th SW

We’ve recently posted several stories about the infrastructure improvements that our Safe Routes to School Program recently completed around our city’s schools.  Today we’ll take a look at another important facet of school safety championed by our Safe Routes Program – school zone speed limit signing. As drivers it is… [ Keep reading ]

SDOT Gardeners spruce up West Government Way

Last week SDOT Urban Forestry gardeners responded to neighborhood safety concerns and conducted a work party on the West Government Way medians in Magnolia from 34th-36th Ave W-with excellent results.  The median is home to a variety of plants including maples, arbutus, hawthorns, viburnum, salal and ferns.  The medians soften… [ Keep reading ]

SDOT to participate at upcoming Alaskan Way Viaduct information meetings in West Seattle and Ballard

Come learn about how SDOT is preparing for the WSDOT AWV closure in October. SDOT staff will be at hand during the two open house meetings being hosted by Seattle City Councilmember Tom Rasmussen to provide the public with information about the upcoming AWV/SR 99 nine-day closure (Oct. 21 –… [ Keep reading ]

“Thoughtful. Considerate. Accommodating.” The perfect boyfriend? No, a Rainier Ave sidewalk project

Here’s how SDOT’s Sidewalk Safety and Repair Program (SSRP) used some creativity to enhance another project, help out bus riders, and preserve street trees. The SSRP program repairs a finite amount of sidewalks throughout the city each year, so it’s important to get the most bang for our buck.  When the program… [ Keep reading ]

Infrastructure Improvements and Mini-Grants Help Students Walk to School

SDOT has completed construction of this year’s five Safe Routes to School projects. Working closely with school staff, students and parents, this Bridging the Gap funded program helps eliminate barriers and create solutions to make walking and biking safer and more accessible. The 2011 projects were completed at Coe Elementary,… [ Keep reading ]

The AWVSRP Advisory Committee on Tolling & Traffic Management

The City and State have established the Alaskan Way Viaduct and Seawall Replacement Program (AWVSRP) Advisory Committee on Tolling and Traffic Management (ACTT).  The ACTT will make advisory recommendations to the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), the Governor, the Legislature, the Transportation Commission, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), and… [ Keep reading ]

Local Artist to Create Artwork for the Burke-Gilman Trail

    Seattle artist Anna MacDonald has  been chosen to create a permanent, multi-site art installation for the Burke-Gilman Trail.  Two to five artworks will enliven select locations along the trail and collectively create a larger cohesive artwork. The artwork will identify the trail as a connective conduit in the… [ Keep reading ]

Get Behind the Box

The bike box is an intersection safety design to prevent collisions. It is a painted green space on the road with a white bicycle symbol inside. In some locations it includes a green bicycle lane approaching the box. The box creates space between motor vehicles and the crosswalk that allows… [ Keep reading ]

Street Eats Can’t Be Beat!

There’s something almost romantic about food vendors on sidewalks, plazas and at the curb…perhaps it is because we see them in the movies on the streets of New York and in cities around the world?  Or perhaps it is because there’s the chance a one person operation can become a… [ Keep reading ]

SDOT Celebrates PARK(ing) Day with a Latino Flair

On Friday, September 16, cities around the globe, artists and community members independently, but simultaneously temporarily took over and transformed parking spaces into public parks and other social spaces, as part of an annual event called “PARK(ing) Day.” The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) and Latino City Employees partnered with… [ Keep reading ]