allieger

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Seattle's pedestrian-umbrella boondoggle

Posted Fri, Dec 3, 10:16 a.m.

And yet Phil Bevis contacted SDOT to request MORE umbrellas. Strange. Perhaps all he really wanted was a little extra publicity this holiday season?

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Why is City Hall cracking down on handicapped parking?

Posted Thu, Feb 4, 2:38 p.m.

Thanks for covering SDOT’s draft proposal to tackle the extensive abuse of disabled parking placards. The city is committed to providing access for people with legitimate disabled placards. But with more than 750,000 inactive disabled placards in circulation statewide, this proposal aims to address the systematic and illegal abuse of ...

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Mayor McGinn: Welcome to City Hall inertia!

Posted Thu, Nov 19, 11:23 a.m.

Just to set the record straight: - SeaTran doesn’t exist anymore. It was reorganized in 2002 and later renamed the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT). - The department actually has 790 employees who work across eight divisions. Each division is overseen by a seasoned senior manager who reports to one ...

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Fall is in the air, and on Seattle's street signs

Posted Tue, Oct 27, 9:59 a.m.

Given the large number of street signs that are old, faded and hard to read, now is exactly the right time to be replacing them. SDOT has already installed new signs at 3,645 intersections since beginning voter-approved Bridging the Gap levy work in 2007. The brown signs highlight the historic ...

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Mercer Plan has a new price tag: $290 million

Posted Thu, Sep 10, 5:47 p.m.

This editorial makes a number of erroneous claims about the Mercer project. Just a few facts to clarify the record. To start, Mercer East (from I-5 to Dexter Avenue) is obsolete and in poor condition. Traffic moves sluggishly on it now and flow will only get worse without the project. ...

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Sharrows are a sham solution for bike lanes

Posted Thu, Sep 3, 4:35 p.m.

Allie from SDOT here with a few quick notes on sharrows: The sharrow is a relatively new pavement marking. The use of sharrows has been found to reduce accidents by better positioning the driver and the bicyclist in the lane, and by making motorists more aware that bicyclists may be ...

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