Find Posts By Topic

Mercer Corridor Project (East Phase)
Weekly Construction Preview

This week, crews will focus on sidewalk restoration on Fairview Avenue N between Valley Street and Mercer Street as well as pavement installation on Fairview Avenue N between Valley Street and Aloha Street. Activities this week include:

Linden Avenue North Complete Street Project Looking Good…

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 ]

NE Northgate Way & 5th Ave NE Project Wraps Up!

This past week the NE Northgate Way & 5th Avenue NE Intersection and Pedestrian Improvements Project wrapped up with crews pouring concrete for the new sidewalks at each corner of the intersection. A remaining punch list item is adjusting the new signal to respond to actual traffic conditions.   The majority of… [ Keep reading ]

Mercer Corridor Project (East Phase)
Weekly Construction Preview

This week, crews are focusing on concrete pavement installation on Fairview Avenue N between Valley Street and Mercer Street and sidewalk restoration on Fairview Avenue N between Harrison Street and Mercer Street. Activities this week include:

Missed the SR 520 Open Houses? Good news – the materials are available online

The Washington State Department of Transportation (SDOT) SR 520 project team has posted the materials from the public open houses in Bellevue and Seattle on Feb. 5 and 6. So, if you missed the meetings or if you’d like to revisit the information, you can access the information via the… [ Keep reading ]

Why did the chicken cross the road…oh wait!

Did you know that the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is working to make it easier and safer to cross the road?  Thanks to the Bridging the Gap (BTG) transportation initiative passed by Seattle voters in 2006, funding is available to remark crosswalks, make needed crossing improvements, install new signage… [ Keep reading ]

City offices closed today for the federal holiday

Begun In 1879, today’s federal holiday was originally titled Washington’s Birthday and was celebrated on George Washington’s birthday, February 22.  However in 1971, the Uniform Monday Holiday Act placed the day on the third Monday in February falling between February 15 and February 21.  Because the holiday falls in the… [ Keep reading ]

Mercer Corridor Project (East Phase)
Weekly Construction Wrap-Up

This week, crews focused on concrete pavement installation on Fairview Avenue N between Valley Street and Mercer Street and electrical work near the intersection of Fairview Avenue N and Valley Street. Activities this week included:

So you have an ORCA card, now what?

Just use it! Use it on the bus, use it on the light rail – you can even use it on the Sounder commuter rail. In fact, if you have an Epurse loaded to your card, you can even use it on the ferry. It’s as easy as 1, 2,… [ Keep reading ]

First Hill Streetcar Construction Outreach to the Chinatown/International District

Given recent interest in SDOT’s work in the Chinatown/International District, we thought it would be worth sharing information about our streetcar construction outreach. As we do with any project, we work diligently to communicate with the neighborhood’s businesses and residents, and to understand their concerns around issues such as construction impacts. Below are steps we have… [ Keep reading ]