SDOT is essentially taking any new Denny Way bus lane off the table here, due to concerns over general purpose congestion that stem from traffic modeling.
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What centering climate or equity?
aug 29, 2025, 4:45 am • 1 0 • view
Imagine being a "professional traffic engineer" and not knowing about induced demand smh
aug 28, 2025, 9:36 pm • 3 0 • view
Did SDOT account for any mode shift in their modeling, or just assume ridership and drive-share would stay the same?
aug 28, 2025, 11:54 pm • 5 0 • view
It's almost like the current city admin hears what people want, and uses that as justification to do the exact opposite.
aug 28, 2025, 8:20 pm • 5 0 • view
I miss @spottnik.bsky.social
aug 28, 2025, 9:23 pm • 7 0 • view
Denny Way repaving without bus lanes was approved during Spotts' tenure.
aug 28, 2025, 9:25 pm • 11 0 • view
Damn, I didn't know that
aug 28, 2025, 9:26 pm • 0 0 • view
At the stage that I showed up (Levy year 7 of 9) the paving projects were deep into design & the levy funds had largely been allocated. It wasn’t feasible to add multimodal enhancements to ALL the paving projects. We did some good additions to 15th in Ballard and the 11th/12th project in U District
aug 28, 2025, 9:37 pm • 15 0 • view
Cool story Greg
aug 28, 2025, 9:42 pm • 8 0 • view
All those Amazon building built out to the street with loading docks on Denny. The people that passed that didn't care about taking the 8 to Capitol hill. I can see it from Queen Anne. I just can't go there much anymore. AND I can't shop = spend $.
aug 29, 2025, 6:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Traffic "modeling" has issues: youtu.be/NgJ998KHBpc?...
aug 28, 2025, 8:22 pm • 17 0 • view
Love the “buses _could_ see some improvements” vs “traffic would _likely_ be significantly impacted” usage.
aug 28, 2025, 9:10 pm • 10 0 • view
It's actually even worse than that "could help with bus reliability" vs "would cause severe traffic congestion". Improvements for bus riders are whimsical and imaginary, but negative impacts to car drivers is concrete and guaranteed.
aug 28, 2025, 10:40 pm • 19 2 • view
Yeah, they're not so subtly setting up the post for their already held position: "Denny is for cars to get to I-5."
aug 28, 2025, 10:47 pm • 5 0 • view
In 2019, during the EIS process for the new arena, traffic volumes were expected to increase by 20-33% on Denny Way, which is why we absolutely had to spend millions on updated signals. Except that was clearly made up too, because Denny Way was already gridlock. BUILD THE FUTURE WE KNOW WE NEED.
aug 28, 2025, 8:54 pm • 55 1 • view
their (departments of transportation) projections of future traffic volume are routinely off by a lot too. how could denny way increase by that much?? like during peak it's gridlock so are they projecting surprise shifts in hours people travel??
aug 28, 2025, 8:58 pm • 15 1 • view
Seattle climate goals: in order to not cook the planet, 30% of our car trips need to shift to non-car trips by 2030 SDOT: noo we can’t make transit better bc that would make the experience of driving a car worse :(((( we can’t do that
aug 28, 2025, 10:15 pm • 2 0 • view
all models are lies, but some models are useful lies. What you are using the model for determines what it is useful for...
aug 28, 2025, 9:00 pm • 1 0 • view