A recent press Release from King County announced Federal funding for Rapid Ride on Aurora Ave. N. : King County Executive Dow Constantine and members of the Metropolitan King County Council today expressed their appreciation to Congress for appropriating $37.5 million for two more Metro Transit RapidRide lines. The measure passed in both the House and Senate…
Category Archives: Aurora Avenue N
Feet First blog on Aurora Conditions- Broadview Neighborhood
Friends, Please take the time to open and read this blog on Aurora Avenue North. http://feetfirst.info/blog/neighborhoods-need-citys-support Feet First, folks, Lisa Quinn as leader, has supported all of our efforts to have complete streets in Broadview-Bitter Lake-Haller Lake for the last six years. This article believes that we are UPDATING the 1999 plan that places Aurora…
Unearthed Pieces of Aurora History
Our project at 130th and Aurora has been quite interesting. Crews have unearthed pieces of Aurora history on nearly a daily basis. Old signal and street name sign footings, survey benchmarks, and utilities have unexpectedly been found on site. We have had to coordinate the removal of these features with WSDOT and other SDOT crews. …
Crosswalk Construction at 130th & Aurora
A long-awaited improvement to pedestrian crosswalks at N 130th St. and Aurora Avenue N will begin construction on Tuesday May 31. Seattle Department of Transportation has provided the infomation below. The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) would like to inform you that construction will begin soon on a new crosswalk project in your neighborhood. Project…
Enforcement patrols on Aurora Avenue North Thursday April 14th
“The Aurora Traffic Safety Project would like to inform you of an upcoming safe driving enforcement patrol on Aurora Avenue North.
On April 14th beginning at 6:30 am and running all day and evening, the Seattle Police Department, Washington State Patrol and Washington Liquor Control Board will be conducting a major traffic enforcement patrol to deter aggressive and distracted driving on Aurora.
North 143rd Sidewalk Project Update
Just wanted to update you on the progress for the N 143rd Street sidewalk project. SDOT is proceeding with designing a concrete sidewalk on the northside of N 143rd Street from 1st Ave NW to the existing asphalt walkway just west of Linden Ave N.
Join Seattle City Councilmember Tom Rasmussen in North Seattle
Seattle – Councilmember Tom Rasmussen, Chair of the Transportation Committee, will spend time in the Broadview neighborhood of Seattle this Saturday listening to residents. ”I’m looking forward to visiting all areas of our City to speak with residents about their concerns and help answer their questions,” said Councilmember Tom Rasmussen. “I’d like to hear people’s…
The Problem Among Us: Absentee Landlords and Problem Tenants
by Dan Pavlovic Block Watch Captain Rental houses in the neighborhoods along the Aurora corridor are an ongoing public safety problem. Recently the King County Sheriff and SWAT team raided a residence in Greenwood confiscating 25 grams of heroin and some amount of methamphetamine, arresting at least one man and taking a young boy into…
Low Income Housing to be Discussed at Broadview Community Council Meeting
Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC) has proposed building a 87-unit apartment house for homeless / low income residents at N 105th St. and Aurora Ave. N, the site of the current Cyndy’s House of Pancakes. Bill Hobson from DESC will inform us about the project and other similar facilities DESC operates in Seattle. This is…
Second Design Review for DESC
There will be a design review meeting for the building to replace Cyndy’s House of Pancakes on Monday January 10 at Ballard High School library. Typically at a second meeting the applicant responds to comments made at the first design review meeting. Here is a link to the announcement on the Department of Planning and…
