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 ]
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 ]
Work on Delridge Way SW Paving Phase 4, between SW Holden and SW Orchard streets, begins July 8. This segment of work will not require a detour as the roadway is wide enough to maintain one lane of traffic each way. Meanwhile, a detour will still be required through at… [ Keep reading ]
All this rain may be putting a damper on some summer plans, but it has been a good thing for the 487 new trees that were planted this past spring by the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT). Thanks to the Bridging the Gap (BTG) Transportation Initiative, passed by Seattle voters… [ 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 ]
The 2012 Bridging the Gap (BTG) Annual Report is now complete and available on-line. 2012 was the sixth year of the levy program and was once again a successful year for the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT). You can view the report on-line here. Bridging the Gap is… [ Keep reading ]
Neighborhood greenways are in high demand and right now SDOT is implementing the fifth one in Seattle. Located in the North Delridge Neighborhood we are making it safer and more comfortable for people of all ages and abilities to walk and ride a bike along 26th Avenue SW. In a… [ Keep reading ]
Linden Avenue North between North 128th and North 145th streets is a fabulous new version of itself – awaiting a unique artwork installation in early July to call the “Complete Street” a completed project. Part of the newly neighborhood friendly Linden Corridor is the City’s first urban cycle track – modeled after… [ Keep reading ]
