This year’s dry summer may have all but erased your memories of Seattle’s rainy winter weather. However, now is the perfect time to start prepping your garden for fall and winter downpours with a rain garden! If you’ve ever walked through a wooded park on a rainy day, you likely… [ Keep reading ]
The South Lake Union Streetcar has 9 new ticket pay stations! Buying a Streetcar ticket for a group or for all day use will become much easier with these new ticket vending machines “TVMs.” The TVMs have added functionality, allowing purchases of: Streetcar-only day passes ($4.50 adult, $3.00 youth and… [ Keep reading ]
Biking between Rainier Valley and Lake Washington is now a lot easier thanks to the new bicycle “runnel” built by SDOT crews at S. Hinds Street and York Road S. stairway. Stairway runnels create an easier way for bicyclists to push bikes up or down a staircase in a channel… [ Keep reading ]
Imagine the following: mini golf in the streets of Pioneer Square, a library of banned books curbside in Ballard, and nearly 40 feet of space for playing cornhole on a downtown street. These installations—not to mention dozens of other spaces for art, public seating, and play—were all part of last… [ Keep reading ]
Early in 2015 SDOT completed another innovative project to improve pedestrian safety near the Salmon Bay School at NW 65th Street and 18th Avenue NW in Ballard. This project is another effort to help us achieve our Vision Zero goal, to end traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2030. …. [ Keep reading ]
Please join us tonight for the Center City Bike Network open house to meet the project team and share your vision for the project. Tuesday, July 21, Town Hall Seattle at 1119 8th Ave from 5:00 – 7:00 PM Learn the history and next steps in the selection and design process… [ Keep reading ]
Update: Here is a brief video of SDOT Director Scott Kubly chatting about the safety improvements made at 47 Ave SW and SW Admiral Way in West Seattle. Over the last four months, crews working for the Seattle Department of Transportation constructed the 47th/Admiral Signal project, a set of improvements supported… [ Keep reading ]
The Mercer neighborhood Whether you’ve attended a concert at Seattle Center, watched the Fourth of July Fireworks around Lake Union, or dined at one of the many area restaurants, you’ve probably traveled along Mercer Street at some point. For more than 40 years, the Mercer Corridor has been a sticky… [ Keep reading ]
Here is a video clip of the Test Run: The new First Hill Streetcar visited all its neighborhoods from Capitol Hill to Pioneer Square on Tuesday as part of its ongoing testing program. These low-speed tests focused on the braking performance when traveling downhill in traffic. Many of our tests… [ Keep reading ]
Thanks to SDOT’s Arterial Major Maintenance (AMM) program, SDOT paving crews recently replaced several damaged concrete panels on NE 55th St. This is the route of the #71 bus, which connects the UDistrict to neighborhoods to the north and to Downtown. Sections of NE 55th St were showing a lot of… [ Keep reading ]
