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Join Us on June 26 for a Waterfront Seattle, Street and Transit Update

Come and participate in this interactive update on Alaskan Way design and options for waterfront transit on Wednesday, June 26 at 5:30 pm. The project team will be sharing street design and local waterfront transit updates for community feedback. Meeting details: Street + Transit Update Wednesday, June 26 5:30 –… [ Keep reading ]

Walk Bike Ride 2013 Challenge: Get moving, get active, get prizes!

Mark your calendars: SDOT’s 2013 Walk Bike Ride Challenge launches June 15 and runs through the summer until September 9. Sign up NOW and start inviting your friends, neighbors, family, co-workers to join in on the fun. The Walk Bike Ride Challenge is an SDOT incentive program to inspire you… [ Keep reading ]

Mercer & SR 99 CLOSURES BEGIN TONIGHT…and more to come

We’ve said it was coming but that doesn’t make it any easier…11PM tonight through 5AM Monday, May 20 FULL CLOSURE OF: SR 99-Valley Street to the southern end of the Battery Street Tunnel Mercer Street-Fifth Avenue N to Dexter Avenue N Sidewalks will be closed on both sides of SR 99… [ Keep reading ]

Westlake Cycle Track – Get Ready for the Conversation!

SDOT is excited to announce the kick-off of the Westlake Cycle Track project. This project improves safety for people biking, improves the pedestrian experience, and will be done in coordination with the Ballard to Downtown Seattle Transit Expansion Study, because Westlake is one of the possible corridors being considered for… [ Keep reading ]

Two-Way Mercer Moves Closer to Reality

For decades, the “Mercer Mess” has been one of the City’s most significant transportation challenges.  Each day some 80,000 vehicles, along with growing numbers of pedestrians and bicyclists, enter and exit I-5 at Mercer Street, making it a critical east/west route for keeping people, goods, and services moving.  While eastbound… [ Keep reading ]

Once Around The Web: Smorgasbord!

It’s a tasty smorgasbord of transportation links for you to stuff your face with!  Driving is all that. NOT! Driving is so 1995, chart shows Food for thought: Grocery Delivery Service Is Greener Than Driving to the Store Is Seattle the next Toronto? Toronto’s waterfront makeover a huge money maker,… [ Keep reading ]

Lane Restrictions Are Coming! Lane Restrictions Are Coming!

Okay, so, not the most subtle approach, but you get it…lane restrictions – well, more of them – for the Mercer Corridor Project, begin Monday. The West Phase of the Mercer Corridor Project starts with rebuilding the SR 99 Aurora overpass (no timid start there) and, as we said before, the initial work… [ Keep reading ]

Safety Improvements to Woodland Place N and N 65th Street

Safety is the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT)’s number one priority, and we are committed to improving safety for everyone who uses our transportation system.  In Seattle, we want people of all abilities – from our five-year-old kids to our 80-year old grandparents – to be comfortable moving about the… [ Keep reading ]

Mercer West Construction Coming

The contractor is about to get Notice to Proceed on the Mercer West Phase of the Mercer Corridor Project, meaning construction to convert Mercer Street to two-way traffic from I-5 to Uptown is about to start. Atkinson Construction is tackling the mega effort that begins with improving the problematic portion of Mercer… [ Keep reading ]

What is Bridging the Gap?

In 2006, Seattle voters passed a nine-year, $365 million, transportation levy for maintenance and improvements known as Bridging the Gap (BTG).  The levy is complemented by a commercial parking tax.  The BTG levy funds maintenance programs for paving; new sidewalk development and repairs; repair, rehabilitation and seismic upgrades to Seattle’s… [ Keep reading ]