Everybody has an opinion about transportation. What’s yours? Now’s your chance to be heard! For details, please see our website. Last fall, the City Council adopted Resolution Number 31240 which states the City’s intent to convene a Citizens Transportation Advisory Committee (CTAC) III to advise the Mayor… [ Keep reading ]
Unless you’re camping out at Camp Crystal Lake tonight, there’s no legitimate reason that Friday the 13th should be a day of misfortune. In fact today should be like any other day of the year. Thanks in part to a certain movie franchise, this date has been stigmatized in popular… [ Keep reading ]
Leaves are expanding, a natural drainage area is planted, the Seattle Streetcar is stopping and people are enjoying McGraw Square, an SDOT construction project that officially opened in February 2011. SDOT Urban Forestry crews planted a specimen Accolade Elm in a circular planter and four Greencolumn Maples in curbside… [ Keep reading ]
The Transit Master Plan project team met with the Council’s Transportation Committee this morning to propose 15 corridors for further analysis. These 15 corridors represent only a small portion of the existing transit network, but they form an important backbone for the system. After all, when you’re in a time… [ Keep reading ]
Art is finding its way to more and more locations throughout the city and in many surprising places – even spicing up sidewalks in several neighborhood business districts. Many SDOT projects do not have a “1% for Art” public art project associated with them, but can still benefit from some aesthetic enhancement. … [ Keep reading ]
SDOT will be conducting pedestrian and bicycle volume counts at more than 50 locations across Seattle from May 10th to May 12th as part of the National Bicycle & Pedestrian Documentation Project. Following a consistent, nationally recognized methodology will improve the quality and consistency of our data, and also increase… [ Keep reading ]
Despite our cool spring, we are approaching the end of spring tree planting season. Planting a tree is a shock to its system, so it’s best to ease it in to its new home. Planting early in the spring before its leaves are out works well. This refers to… [ Keep reading ]
The Elliott Bay Seawall Project has developed two alternatives for environmental analysis, which were presented to the City Council on April 25. But what does that really mean? Well, it means that we have two “bookend” alternatives to replace the seawall that cover a range of impacts, providing time… [ Keep reading ]
What? The kiosk at the southwest corner of Fifth Avenue and Union in Downtown Seattle – you hadn’t noticed it was gone? That’s why it was removed. A “relic” of the late 70’s, it no longer was serving its intended purpose. One of five kiosks from Pine to Seneca on… [ Keep reading ]
SDOT plans to start work on a series of safety improvements on Aurora Avenue North starting Monday. This work is part of the Aurora Traffic Safety Project, a two year effort to improve safety through low cost engineering, enforcement, and educational efforts. On Monday SDOT crews will break ground on… [ Keep reading ]
