This week, crews will focus on underground utility work on Valley Street and Broad Street. Activities this week include: Begin installation of a dynamic messaging sign above westbound Mercer Street between Boren Avenue N and Terry Avenue N. Please note, the far left lane of westbound Mercer Street will be… [ Keep reading ]
Do you find it frustrating when you’re in a new neighborhood and can’t locate the street you are looking for? Well, thanks to the Bridging the Gap (BTG) initiative new street, name signs will be installed at all 12,300 intersections in the city by 2012. The Seattle Department of Transportation… [ Keep reading ]
You may have heard the media encouraging folks who would be celebrating St Patrick’s Day over this past weekend to take advantage of the Pre-paid Parking Program. If you aren’t familiar with the program, it’s part of Seattle’s Nightlife Initiative seeking to enhance public safety while supporting local businesses and vibrant urban life. It’s… [ Keep reading ]
Crews working on the Ballard Bridge Seismic Retrofit Project originally planned to close the Ship Canal Trail for 30 days to enable work on the south side of the bridge; but now the plan is to bridge the trail instead. To do that, work platforms are being constructed on top of… [ Keep reading ]
Tomorrow crews open up Fairview Avenue North to two-way traffic. This is a change from only one northbound lane on Fairview, between Harrison and Mercer, and no southbound traffic between Valley and Harrison. So… REMEMBER FAIRVIEW MONDAY! The change represents a shift to the next stage of Mercer Corridor construction which includes… [ Keep reading ]
Thanks to the Bridging the Gap (BTG) Transportation Initiative, since 2007more than 170 lane-miles of arterial roadway have been repaved or reconstructed across the city,. Roadways that have seen major repaving include Airport Way S, 15th Avenue NE, Dexter Avenue N, Columbian Way S, First Avenue S, Fourth Avenue S,… [ Keep reading ]
It may have been a Saturday and the weather may have been half-way decent, but that didn’t keep neighborhood residents from attending an open house on March 2nd at the Garfield Community Center. Some 80 interested citizens showed up to hear about the scope… [ Keep reading ]
As crews dig in to the Delridge Way SW/SW Trenton Street intersection work this weekend, plans are underway to tackle Phase 2 of the Delridge Paving Project – from SW Trenton to SW Thistle streets. During the second phase, southbound traffic will be detoured to 35th Avenue SW; that’s because Trenton and Thistle streets east… [ Keep reading ]
As we move from winter to spring and the days get longer folks are looking forward to getting outside and getting active once again. It’s a great time of year, with warmer and sometimes sunnier days, for kids to walk or bike to school. Thanks to Bridging the Gap (BTG),… [ Keep reading ]
The Linden Avenue North Complete Street Project is looking good with work between N 128th and N 130th and between N 143rd and N 145th streets now complete and nice touches like a new bench installed this week in front of Bitter Lake Community Center. Crews recently finished most of the… [ Keep reading ]
