Seattle’s department of transportation put in some swift demolition work over the July 4th holiday weekend, reopening SR 99 early Sunday morning and then Mercer Street by the afternoon, beating their 5 a.m. Monday morning target handily. Continue reading After Weekend Closure, a “Mercer East” Construction Update
Thanks to a commenter at Seattle Transit Blog, we can alert you to the existence of the cheekily-named busdrone, a Google map initially overlaid with Sound Transit’s and King County Metro’s real-time feeds, so you could watch buses beetle about the city for amusement, and possibly travel-related purposes. Now it’s got SLU streetcar and Washington State Ferries, too. Continue reading Busdrone Lets You Watch Metro Buses (and More) Move Slowly in Real-Time
We also don’t know, for instance, how many of the MCs were belated responses to an in-person approach, shot down but then regretted once an overactive fight-or-flight response subsided. Google, our age’s final arbiter, pulls no punches either way. Auto-complete for “Why are Seattle men so…?” yields “unfriendly,” “bad,” and “loud.” Continue reading Maybe Seattle’s Dating Scene is as Bad as Women Think It is
The view above is of the near term–so long, SoDo!–but it gets very exciting around around 2100, when Lake Washington joins once again with Puget Sound. That requires a rise of about nine feet. Hard to credit? Their summary notes that: “Global warming has raised sea level about eight inches since 1880, and the rate of rise is accelerating.” Continue reading Hey, Seattle! Time to Play “Who Drowns First?”
Using data from Seattle’s department of transportation, the Times’ Justin Mayo has created a Tableau map of more than 1, 800 collisions involving a bicycle from 2007 to 2011. My own infographic skills are not up to dropping an overlay of Seattle’s bike lanes on this map, but glance back and forth and tell me if you see what I think I see. Continue reading Are Seattle Cyclists Colliding with City Policy?
What a lifesaver! It’s one thing to Google map things like Seattle gas stations, but how much more useful to know that you’re venturing into the territory of the Deuce 8, 74 Hoover Criminals, or South Side Locos 13! The updated map of Seattle gang territory does come with a disclaimer, though. Continue reading Google Mapping Seattle Gangs, or “Surf & Turf”
When you are stuck at home in a snowstorm this winter, you’ll be able to pinpoint the exact streets that you can’t use, thanks to work done in the off-season by Seattle’s Department of Transportation. The Winter Weather portal includes a street map to track closures and deicing and plowing work as it’s done. Most importantly, the map tells you which streets the city is dedicated to keeping open. Continue reading With Winter Weather On the Way, City Sets Up Snow-Centric Sites
