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Highways

How WSDOT Treats Pedestrians Like Second Class Citizens: SR-167 Edition

The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is barrelling ahead with its planned highway expansion of SR-167 and SR-509 where I-5 meets Fife. The project...

Reconnected Thomas Street at Aurora to Get Traffic Diverter

As soon as Seattle's SR-99 tunnel opens in 2019, work will begin to de-highway-ify Aurora Ave N south of the tunnel portal in South...

Lid I-5 Awarded $48,000 Grant for Community Outreach

Lid I-5 has been awarded a $48,000 grant from the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods to further our campaign of reconnecting communities divided by Interstate...

Portland Considers Freeway Expansion Under Guise of Safety

Seattle and Portland have twin stories of fighting urban freeway expansion in the middle of the 20th century. With the defeat of the R.H....

Community Solutions for the I-5 Scar

While we are a big proponent of lidding I-5 to cut off the sights and sounds of freeway traffic (or even removing it) and...

Sunday Video: What’s Next With The Viaduct

Beginning in 2019, contractors will start a nine-month effort to remove the Alaskan Way Viaduct. In this video, the Washington State Department of Transportation...

Seattle Urbanists Should Be Rooting for the 99 Tunnel’s Success

Let's talk about Bertha. I didn't live here when we debated how to replace the viaduct (SR-99). I didn't even live here when Bertha first...

South Lake Union Is For Cars

Seattle, we need to talk. It's undeniable that we are creating the model for an urban high-tech corridor that eschews the inefficient sprawl that...