Preparation work for the new King County Metro Rapid Ride E Line on Aurora Ave. N will be starting soon. A public meeting on March 20 will present the work to be done. Below is the announcement. Click on the announcement for a larger more readable view.
Category Archives: Aurora Avenue N
DESC Open House Rescheduled to February 22nd
DESC has rescheduled the open house that it originally scheduled for January and had to cancel. Below is the new information. Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC) is holding an open house of its new facility at 10507 Aurora Ave. N on Friday February 22 from 2:30 to 4:00 PM . This is the new building where…
The RapidRide E Line is Coming to Aurora in 2013
King County Metro Transit will launch the RapidRide E Line on Aurora Avenue N in the fall of 2013. What is Rapid Ride? According to Metro’s website: RapidRide buses come so often, you don’t need a timetable. Just show up to your closest RapidRide stop and a bus will arrive shortly to take you on…
Council Member Tom Rasmussen Tours Aurora Ave N. Traffic Safety Issues
On June 28 Seattle City Council Member Tom Rasmussen walked a part of Aurora Ave. N with local residents, to see some of the safety challenges for pedestrians there. Richard Dyksterhuis invited CM Rasmussen to the area. The first stop was a postive note, to look at the new sidewalk on the north side of…
Celebrate North Seattle Block Party June 24 at Oaktree Village
Celebrate North Seattle started as a grassroots effort in June of 2010. Organizers of the event noticed a severe lack of positive community events in North Seattle and along the often infamous Aurora Avenue. The event doubled in size in just its second year! The goal of the event is simple: highlight and celebrate the…
Two Aurora Ave. N Traffic Alerts
Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is planning work on two different areas of Aurora Avenue North that will affect traffic flow. On the weekend of June 22 – 25 the intersection at N 85th St. will be closed from 10 PM on Friday evening until 5 AM on Monday, to allow drainage work to be…
Funding Received For Rapid Ride on Aurora Ave. N
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…
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…
