Your Voice, Your Choice Project Winners Announced
The City of Seattle, via the Department of Neighborhoods, has just completed its first citywide experiment with participatory budgeting. In March, the department solicited...
Open House On Updated Northgate Pedestrian Bridge Design
One of the centerpiece projects of the 2015 Move Seattle transportation levy was the final piece of funding for a pedestrian-only bridge across Interstate...
Rainier Avenue Rechannelization Heads Into Phase 2
In August of 2015, a pilot project to tame a short segment of Seattle's most dangerous street, Rainier Avenue, resulted in pretty dramatic results....
Disability Rights Victory Means Curb Cut Deluge Coming
On Monday of last week, the City of Seattle settled a class action lawsuit in U.S. District court. The lawsuit alleged the City is...
Beacon Hill Safety Project Riles Neighbors
Throughout 2016, I covered the process that led to the selection of twelve neighborhood-focused transportation improvements though the Neighborhood Street Fund process. Those concepts...
Center City Bike Network’s Timeline Becomes Clearer
When the three transportation agencies involved in the One Center City plan--King County Metro, Sound Transit, and the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT)--presented their...
2017 Worst Intersection In Seattle: Denny And Stewart
Long roadways in Seattle like Rainier, MLK, and Aurora cut scars across Seattle’s landscape and have their share of bad intersections. But, even though...
Adaptive Signal System Kicks Pedestrians To The Curb
Carolyn Mawbey is irked. The feisty 68-year-old former New Yorker gets around Seattle’s Uptown neighborhood mostly on foot but when the transportation department flipped...