# On Monday, Senator Maria Cantwell's office announced that the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has been selected to receive over $25 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation for a suite of street improvements intended to improve safety, as part of the new Safe Streets for All grant program funded by the Infrastructure Investment and| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# The Washington Traffic Safety Commission held a difficult conversation last week around its longstanding goal of ending fatalities and serious injuries in traffic by the year 2030: whether that goal has now slipped out of reach. Washington's "Target Zero," established in 2000, with Washington one of the very first states to commit to ending traffic| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# The gaps in Seattle's current complete streets legislation are becoming more apparent as the city moves ahead with a repaving project on one of the city's busiest and highest speed corridors, with minimal adjustments planned to slow traffic or make space for other modes of travel like walking or biking. The repaving project, which will| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is proposing changes to one of the most dangerous streets in the city, 4th Avenue S in SoDo, on a relatively ambitious timeline in the wake of several fatal crashes nearby just this year alone. The changes are relatively minor, quick-build type changes, but they do illustrate how SDOT| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has announced they are planning to convert one lane of northbound Rainier Avenue to a dedicated transit lane between Columbia City and Mount Baker later this year. A planned extension north through a heavily congested section near I-90 to reach to the soon-to-open Judkins Park Station in the median| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# Within 18 months, the posted maximum speed limit on nearly every single arterial street in the city of Seattle will be 25 miles per hour. That was the boldest action on the list of safety improvements announced by Mayor Jenny Durkan yesterday, in response to a big uptick in traffic violence. More than two years| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# (Image: Seattle Fire Department)It’s been a bad year for Rainier Avenue South. There are the usually numerous car crashes, sure, but that’s normal. The same goes for the pedestrian collisions--regrettable, but normal. An unfortunate but inevitable side effect of the automobile, and are generally accepted with little comment. But in April, a car slammed into a| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
Seattle City Councilmember Tammy Morales (District 2 – Southeast Seattle, Yesler Terrace & Chinatown-International District) released the following statement after the Seattle Department of Transportation’s (SDOT) Vision Zero Top-To-Bottom Review was released at 12PM today: “I am glad to see Director Greg Spotts and the department are committed to making a cultural shift to prioritize...| Seattle City Council Blog
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