Thanks to community members and the City’s Neighborhood Street Fund Program a key east/west connection is safer and better serves all travel modes. Along Othello and Myrtle, between Seward Park and Beacon Avenue S, gravel shoulders had cyclists risking a slide into vehicles and vehicles were left scrambling for better driveway… [ Keep reading ]
Ahoy mateys! Today, September 19, be International Talk Like a Pirate Day. In honor, SDOT be post’n two educational videos that we made this summer to highlight our salt-blastedly new on-street parking rules in many Seattle neighborhoods. Th’ videos have special guests relevant fer today. After 5 After 5 provides… [ Keep reading ]
PARK(ing) day happens every year on the third Friday in September and is an opportunity for artists, activists, and community members to temporarily make parking spaces into parks. The event raises awareness about important issues like creating a walkable, livable, healthy city. Last month we placed a call to all… [ Keep reading ]
After some three years of construction, the Spokane Street Viaduct Widening Project is nearing completion. The long-awaited westbound consolidated on/off-ramp at First Avenue S opened to traffic on August 31 (see photo below), ending the need for those traveling from SODO to West Seattle to detour over the surface Spokane… [ Keep reading ]
Yahoo Travel has compiled a list of the top 5 world’s most dangerous roads. “We wanted to get to the bottom of exactly where caution should be taken, and found five places with perils you may not have ever considered, from South American back roads with poor track records to… [ Keep reading ]
The school year is back in session and we are seeing more and more kids walking and biking to school. Thanks to Bridging the Gap (BTG), five elementary schools around Seattle have new and improved walking routes in 2012. This year, Highland Park Elementary, Greenlake Elementary, Sanislo Elementary, Dearborn Park… [ Keep reading ]
The artwork, each atop a 11-foot-high column on either side of Beacon Avenue South, shows winged helmeted bicyclists (a boy on a pink column and a girl on a blue column) riding above clouds. Webb states “The two bicycle riders represented in this piece ride among the clouds, as all do… [ Keep reading ]
Fall is in the air – the leaves are turning bright colors, the sun is lower in the sky, the mornings are crisp and, most importantly, kids are headed back to school. Seattle schools get back at it this week. What does this mean to you? It means you will see… [ Keep reading ]
A retired construction management consultant from Tokyo, Hideki Nakamura, recently led five members of the JOYO Construction Engineering in Japan on a tour of SDOT’s Linden Avenue North Complete Street Project, alongside SDOT Project Manager Therese’ Casper. The group traveled from Ibaraki, Japan to learn more about civil engineering practices in the… [ Keep reading ]
Today Mayor McGinn and SDOT announced the launch of Seattle’s Road Safety Action Plan and the beginning of a new road safety campaign – Be Super Safe Seattle! The goal of the Action Plan and the campaign is to eliminate fatalities and serious injuries on Seattle’s Streets. That’s right, eliminate!… [ Keep reading ]
