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Seattle Department of Transportation

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2012

    Snowmania 2012 By The Numbers; 55,353 Gallons of Salt Brine

    It may take a village to raise a child, but it takes a whole lot of manpower, equipment and de-icer to deal with the kind of snow and ice storm that brought Seattle to its knees last week. The prevailing conventional wisdom has long viewed the city as rather whimpish when coping with a major onslaug ... More >>

  • News

    January 4, 2012

    Road Diets, Road Kill?

    South Seattleites play the cop card in order to keep an arterial fat.

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2011

    Road Diet's Latest Critics: South Seattle Residents Worried Police Cars Will Slow Down

    Since Mayor Mike McGinn started pushing "road diets," they have generated controversy, especially among people who see them as a blatant anti-car maneuver and sop to the spandex crowd. Now a South Seattle group has a new complaint. It fears a planned road diet will endanger public safety.

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    Seattle Department of Transportation Calls for Yet Another Expensive Parking Study

    ​The Seattle Department of Transportation had so much fun doing its last citywide parking study a few months ago that it already wants to do another. So if SDOT could get about $150,000, that'd be great.

  • News

    August 3, 2011

    Mayor McGinn's Pothole Problem

    A major bump in the road to re-election.

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2011

    Pothole Claims in Seattle Increase Nearly Three Fold Under Mayor Mike McGinn

    ​Alan Valiev was driving his car on Northgate Way in March when he heard a loud "crack." He'd hit a pothole. And the impact from the hole had broken several expensive components of his wheel assembly. Fortunately for Valiev, he was able to submit a damage claim with the city of Seattle and get ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2011

    SDOT's Ballard Streetcar Plan Would Bring a Piece of France to Seattle

    The Lyon Tramway.​There is no North American equivalent to what Seattle Department of Transportation has proposed as a new transit method for getting from Ballard to downtown Seattle. For reference one would have to go all the way to eastern France.

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2011

    City Council Committee Green Lights Food Truck Plan

    ​City Council's Committee on the Built Environment this morning approved new rules for food vendors, capping a years-long conversation about ways in which Seattle could invigorate its street food scene. "We're hopeful this legislation will significantly expand street food vending," the Depart ... More >>

  • Arts

    October 20, 2010

    The Fussy Eye: A Sign of Failure

    Cross? Don't cross? WTF?

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    City Breaks Ground On New $164 Million Speedway to Seattle Center

    ​It's just over one mile from the Mercer freeway ramps to Key Arena. But if you want to see the Storm play there this weekend, your choices for getting there are limited to looping past the southern shore of Lake Union on Valley St., contending with traffic headed for Fremont, or inching along ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    South Park Bridge's Demise Inspires Carpenter Tim Fahey to Run for Office

    ​In any election there are long-shots with varying degrees of sanity running for public office. King County Council hopeful Tim Fahey isn't so much out on the fringes as he is really pissed off at what he sees as a major failing of local government: the tragic death of the South Park Bridge.

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2010

    Mike McGinn Now Even More Unlikely To Be Bestowed the Nickname Mayor Pothole

    ​Frustrated at how long it's taking to fill that giant hole in the road outside your house? Sorry. The Seattle Department of Transportation says it's going to take even longer to fill it starting today, thanks to Mayor Mike McGinn's announcement that he's cutting SDOT's budget for this year by ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2010

    No Pedestrian Collisions at Rainier and MLK In the Last Five Years, Says SDOT

    ​Maybe it's because teenagers are faster, more adept jaywalkers. But despite all the attention that has been paid to the supposedly dangerous spot in front of Franklin High School where Rainier Avenue and Martin Luther King, Jr. Way meet, where a cop punched a girl in the face during a jaywalk ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2009

    UPDATE: The $2 Million Sidewalk Project on Pine St. Extends Beyond the Block With the Vacant Lot

    The Seattle Department of Transportation wrote in today to clarify the information in my post about the $2 million sidewalk on the 500 block of Pine St. (the block that, on the north side, is currently home to a pile of gravel). The $2 million budget figure quoted in my post, which covers both desig ... More >>

  • News

    August 12, 2009

    Does the City Have Too Many “Advisors”?

    They’ve grown in number under Nickels, and that’s become a campaign issue—even outside the mayor’s race.

  • News

    July 29, 2009

    “Regular Joe” Mallahan’s Stuck in the Bike Lane

    Despite a thick wallet, the mayoral candidate’s campaign remains a mystery.

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2009

    What's Doing at the Lumen?

    Condo auctions have become common nationwide, as banks seize projects whose developers are slow or incapable of paying back their loans. It's a sign of the recession, and of the troubles for both the banking and real-estate industries. In some markets, the bottom-feeder opportunities for home buyers ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2009

    Don't Like the City's Residential Parking Ideas? Let 'em Know

    Think the city's looking to get too stingy with its proposed Residential Parking Zone (RPZ) permits, potentially making it hard for you to park all of your cars on the same street? Too lenient, potentially letting your neighbor park all of his cars on the same street? Speak Wednesday at City Hall, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2009

    Everyone Wants to be the Next Richard McIver

    Bobby Forch is the sixth person to announce his intention to run for Richard McIver's soon-to-be-vacated seat. Forch, 53, works as a "strategic advisor" for the Seattle Department of Transportation. According to his press release [PDF], that means working with businesses and overseeing contracts on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2009

    City to Consult Its Way to Better Snowstorm Responses

    When we have another blizzard in fifteen years and the city flicks it away like dirt off its massive shoulders, you'll remember today. The Mayor and the City Council just sent out a press release announcing, in characteristically laconic manner: "[T]he City will hire an independent consultant to ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2009

    Mercer Mess West: the Update

    As we wrote earlier, everyone's attention is now focused on how the city intends to pay for the two-way Mercer fix. Plans for the eastern end of the much-hated roadway are fairly well set, at a price of some $200 million. That's Phase I, from the I-5 ramps to Dexter. But what about Phase II, from De ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2009

    Snow Flurry 2009: The Aftermath

    Some area motorists this morning were presented with the daunting task of clearing snow from their windshields. The Puget Sound region was hit this morning by a weak weather system that was dry and cold enough to produce snow, up to one or two inches in some places. Like most Seattle ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2009

    Snowbody Shows Up At Mayor's Winter Storm Town Hall Meeting

      Well almost snowbody at any rate. With all the howling and gnashing of teeth over the City's response to last month's two-week long snow event, you'd have thought more than a dozen people would have shown up on a Tuesday night at the Green Lake Community Center to voice their grie ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2008

    Will Voters Just Say Snow to Mayor Nickels?

    The region is slowly recuperating from the horrors of Snowstorm 2008. The roads are mostly clear, garbage service is returning and public transportation is rumored to be nearly back on schedule. More importantly, politics as usual will begin again. Or will it? Like a pool of water around ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2008

    Forget the Fish. Salt Kills Our Cars! Update: Dec. 24

    You knew it was bound to happen and now it has officially gone viral today. People are puling and whining about transportation officials in the region not using salt to melt snow from area roadways, particularly in Seattle. The Seattle Times ran a story quoting a flunky at the Seattle Department of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2008

    Seattle Dept. of Transportation: Plowing While It's Still Snowing

    Buses stuck on Columbia between 2nd and 3rd.Don't envy the folks at the Seattle Department of Transportation who are responsible for clearing the roads with just 24 sand/plow trucks--a justifiably modest number. (Seattle gets snowstorms about as often as McLovin' gets laid.) "We usually look and see ... More >>

  • News

    December 17, 2008

    Hey, Who’s Gonna Clean Up This Wreck?

    If you want those stray bumpers, broken glass, and automobile remains cleaned off the street, get ready to do some sweeping.

  • News

    November 12, 2008

    Time to Beg for a Bike Rack

    The Department of Transportation says winter’s when they have the time to fulfill riders’ requests.

  • News

    May 14, 2008

    City Council’s SLUTty Daydreams

    Reaching out to the tax brackets that shun buses.

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2008

    Attractive Transit

    Reaching out to the tax brackets that shun buses.

  • News

    January 23, 2008

    Won't You Ride the S.L.U.T?

    Turns out it's not as much fun if it's not free.

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2008

    SLUT: She's fast, but...

    Turns out it's not as much fun if it's not free.

  • News

    October 24, 2007

    Transit Proposal Failure Might End the South Park Bridge

    Minneapolis bridge collapse has locals thinking about the 76-year-old icon.

  • News

    October 3, 2007

    Cops Not Taking a Shine to Home Depot's Day Laborers

    Even as Casa Latina's getting the public's attention.

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2007

    Counting to Two

    Even as Casa Latina's getting the public's attention.

  • News

    May 23, 2007

    Garden Gloves Are Off in Laurelhurst Property Battle Involving Bill Gates' Sister

    A hedge fight on Lake Washington pits the rich against the very rich, with a park caught in the middle.

  • News

    April 18, 2007

    Family of Prominent Car-Accident Victim Considers Suing City

    Will the prosecutorial action in the wake of a prominent pedestrian's death spare the city from civil action?

  • News

    April 11, 2007

    Something Useful From the City Council?

    Will the prosecutorial action in the wake of a prominent pedestrian's death spare the city from civil action?

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2007

    Georgetown parking surprise: update

    Will the prosecutorial action in the wake of a prominent pedestrian's death spare the city from civil action?

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2007

    Presto! New Parking Restrictions in Georgetown

    Will the prosecutorial action in the wake of a prominent pedestrian's death spare the city from civil action?

  • News

    April 26, 2006

    Sobriety Threatened

    Also: the week's viaduct news, Hu meets Clippy, and the city does right by the homeless.

  • News

    April 12, 2006

    Parking Sticker Shock

    Pay stations are so lucrative, the city is expanding their use to areas that were once free. Paid street parking in the evening could be next.

  • News

    November 30, 2005

    Asking for Directions

    Voters were clear on Nov. 8. Now a map needs to be drawn by state transportation planners and politicians. It's a complicated route.

  • News

    October 19, 2005

    It's Gridlock vs. Bike Lock

    Drive times and density, not $3 gas, might be the tipping point for bicycle commuting.

  • News

    August 24, 2005

    State to City: Forget Tunnel

    But Mayor Greg Nickels insists that a tunnel replace the creaky, cracky Alaskan Way Viaduct.

  • News

    October 1, 2003

    Southlake Disunion

    The mayor is pushing for up to $460 million in transportation investment in the South Lake Union neighborhood. Critics say that might enhance Paul Allen's property values, but it won't relieve congestion.

  • News

    November 13, 2002

    Roar on Aurora

    The mayor is pushing for up to $460 million in transportation investment in the South Lake Union neighborhood. Critics say that might enhance Paul Allen's property values, but it won't relieve congestion.

  • News

    July 24, 2002

    Buzz

    The mayor is pushing for up to $460 million in transportation investment in the South Lake Union neighborhood. Critics say that might enhance Paul Allen's property values, but it won't relieve congestion.

  • News

    May 26, 1999

    Stairmaster

    One man's quest to scale the city.

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