Seattle is making great strides in bicycling and biking facilities – check out this, and this, and this. But there’s always room for improvement and there’s always some place doing it better right? And that place is usually Amsterdam. Amsterdam, the land of a thousand cycles Amsterdam is a city… [ Keep reading ]
Parks in parking spaces? That’s right, and they’re coming to Seattle! The newly-formed Public Space Management Program at SDOT is getting ready to kickoff the Pilot Parklet Program this summer with parklets opening in Belltown, Capitol Hill, and Chinatown/International District. The parklet program website explains what parklets could look like… [ Keep reading ]
Yes, the impact is bad – for the first or West Phase of the N 105th – N/NE Northgate Way Improvement Project crews must close eastbound N 105th between Greenwood Avenue N and Aurora Ave N for up to five months – beginning Thursday, July 25. During that time westbound traffic along… [ Keep reading ]
The Walk Bike Ride (WBR) Challenge is off to a great start. Over 1600 people have accepted the Challenge to reduce drive-alone car trips by walking, biking, riding transit, and carpooling. We have loads of great prizes and have partnered with both the Sub Pop Jubilee and the Capitol Hill… [ Keep reading ]
The Linden Avenue North Complete Street Project is complete, and we’re celebrating! Please join Mayor Mike McGinn, City leaders, community advocates, neighborhood families, area businesses, regional supporters and more tomorrow, July 13, from 10 a.m. to noon, on Linden Avenue N in front of the Bitter Lake Community Center (13035 Linden Avenue North) and bring… [ Keep reading ]
It’s that time of year where road construction activity seems to be everywhere, around every corner and happening all the time. Well, you would be mostly correct in your observations. Summer is the most active time for road construction and thanks to the Bridging the Gap (BTG) transportation initiative passed… [ Keep reading ]
Going for a run or stroll on your lunch break, or just dropping into downtown to shop or sightsee? Want to grab a bite to eat and keep on going? The city is now adding two more sites to a long list of conveniently located places where you can order… [ Keep reading ]
Thanks to the Bridging the Gap (BTG) Transportation initiative passed by Seattle voters in 2006, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has been paving roads, constructing new sidewalks, re-striping arterials, rehabilitating bridges, replacing worn out street name signs, striping bikes and sharrows, repairing sidewalks, pruning and planting trees and… [ Keep reading ]
It is legal in Seattle for a cyclist to ride on the sidewalk, but it’s also the law that cyclists must yield the right-of-way to pedestrians, take it slow and use a bell or voice before overtaking or passing any pedestrian. Two things to consider are how wide the sidewalk… [ Keep reading ]
Work that began just two weeks ago to repave NE 125th Street is already showing results (the good kind, I mean). Besides the necessary but not so welcome barricades, with some keeping traffic from heading east up NE 125th to Sand Point Way, there’s also newly ADA-compliant sidewalks gracing the NE… [ Keep reading ]
