Over the past year, SDOT’s Safe Routes to School program has focused on schools in southeast Seattle. AmeriCorps VISTA ‘s Laura Ruchinskas has led these targeted outreach efforts, centered on Aki Kurose Middle School in the Rainier Valley. Laura created partnerships between SDOT, Bike Works and the Seattle Police Department…. [ Keep reading ]
This week, crews will continue to work on underground utilities on Valley Street, Broad Street and Westlake Avenue North, north of Mercer Street and signal installations on Dexter Avenue North, Broad Street and Fifth Avenue North. The signals will be operational on May 20 when two lanes will be closed… Filed Under: SDOT
Last August in the SDOT Blog we reported partial bicycle trip counts for 2012 gathered in the quarterly National Bicycle and Pedestrian Documentation Project. Now we have compiled a full year of 2012 data and learned that the number of trips increased 5 percent from 2011. The top… [ Keep reading ]
This week, crews continued to work on underground utilities on Valley Street, Broad Street and Westlake Avenue N north of Mercer Street. Activities this week included:
Seattle will spend the next several days basking under blue skies and sunshine. Thanks to the Bridging the Gap (BTG) Transportation program, you can get out and explore the city on the many new blocks of sidewalk that have been constructed since the program began in 2007. Since the beginning… [ Keep reading ]
The First Hill Streetcar project entered another phase of construction last week as it began excavation and construction for streetcar rail in the Pioneer Square neighborhood. Work began at Occidental and Jackson, the location of the terminus station for the project’s 2.5 mile route from Pioneer Square, through the Chinatown/International… [ Keep reading ]
This week, crews will continue to work on underground utilities on Valley Street, Broad Street and Westlake Avenue N north of Mercer Street. Activities this week include:
King Street Station’s Main Waiting Room to reopen Wednesday Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 Time: 11:00 -11:45 a.m. Place: Main Waiting Room, King Street Station, 303 S. Jackson Street, Seattle (waiting room entrance located on the track level at the intersection of S King Street and Third Avenue S) This… [ Keep reading ]
This week, crews continued to work on underground utilities on Valley Street, Broad Street and Westlake Avenue N north of Mercer Street. Activities this week included:
Distracted drivers account for more than 1000 collisions per year on Seattle streets – that’s 1000 completely preventable collisions. We should all put our phones away when we get in the car but also understand that distracted driving incliudes more than just cell phone use. Eating food, putting on makeup, or looking… [ Keep reading ]
