Category Archives: Move Seattle Levy

Remember “You Draw It” from the Sunday funnies? Well, now you can have that kind of fun again with Move Levy plans! Below are 2 pictures of the intersection of 50th, Stone Way, and Green Lake Way- one showing the way it works today, then a second with Cycle Tracks ready for you to design. You get to design 5 turning movements working in concert for cars and bikes:

Below is the You Draw It version with cycle track entry points added. You can change any of the roadways, but they must connect to existing roadway lines at the limits …

The Move Levy locks in all bike and pedestrian spending for the next 9 years after a 2 month public comment period that is already half over. For a place like Northgate that has been in planning for years that’s great as SDOT will throw 10’s of millions their way to implement their gold plated plans, but for a neighborhood like Wallingford without a transportation plan it means we only get a few cheap, half baked ideas. When plans were released 1 month ago they included a map that wasn’t even correct, so it has taken me a lot of…

For Wallingford, the real Move Transportation Levy story involves 2 possible pedestrian / bike bridges over I-5.

One bridge connects the Northgate Light Rail Station with North Seattle College. The community college has 6,000 students and is surrounded by a low density neighborhood. The bridge requires a multi-story elevation climb and SDOT estimates the bridge must be about 2,000 feet long to climb that height and then cover the wide stretch of I-5 there, resulting in a 25 million dollar preliminary price tag. While it is needed for pedestrians, an alternative bike path already exists for accessing the community college …