In June, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) embarked on an extensive six-month construction project in the Rainier Valley designed to create a better waiting environment for bus passengers, improve travel time for buses, and improve parking conditions for automobiles on Rainier Avenue South.
The transit improvement project covers the more than six-mile length of Bus Route #7 through Southeast Seattle from the International District to the Rainier Beach neighborhood, and was originally planned for June 28 through December 31, but the most recent project update now says:
The entire project, which began in July 2010, is scheduled for substantial completion in late January or February 2011. Due to weather conditions, some minor work, such as small amounts of permanent asphalt paving (in multiple locations), may need to wait until early spring for completion.
According to SDOT, most of the work remaining to be completed – in multiple locations – is electrical, although some additional drainage work will be performed at Rainier Avenue and South Genesee Street.
Currently active project locations:
- Rainier Avenue S and Martin Luther King Jr. Way S — to be complete by end of January or February
- Rainier and S Genesee Street — completion schedule depends on contractor procuring special made drainage inlets
- Rainier Avenue S and 39 th Avenue S — to be complete by mid- or late December
This work is part of a larger street improvement project for Bus Route #7 along South Jackson Street and along Rainier Avenue South. The improvements will create better waiting areas for bus passengers and will improve bus travel time. Photo/do communications
Related:
- Traffic Alert: Rainier Ave = One HOT MESS (10/11/10)
- Traffic Alert: Expect Rainier Ave Construction to Get Worse Before It Gets Better (8/31/10)
- Traffic Alert: Huge Route 7 Construction Project Kicks Off Next Week (6/25/10)
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This is not a “traffic mess”
What I don’t understrand is why we have to stand in the mud at the Rainier & Holden bus stop? It’s looks like everything is done but the place they have us standing at to catch the bus is under water and mass mud! Progress hah!
It could have been done already if ..
A. They worked more than 2 hours a day at a location.
B. If there was not 5 guys standing around watching 1 guy work. (Seriously, I have pictures)
F’ing ridiculous
There was many MANY nice days that there was NOBODY working at these locations. I agree with Mark.
SDOT is incompetent – have they moved the bus stop back to it’s rightful location at Rainier and Orcas yet? All the road “diet” work has been completed at that location but last I saw they still had riders standing by the curb a block up the street
i’m still confused why they took out the right turn lane from rainier to mlk, for what? to create a larger sidewalk for the kids who are too lazy to walk over that multi-million dollar sky bridge, that was built..to cross the street… and that bridge goes almost unused, i see almost daily people jaywalking across right under that bridge (there’s that famous youtube video of that jaywalking girl obviously not using said sky bridge and having an infamous altercation)
so explain to me DOT… why causing traffic is a good thing?
Good intentions but it seems like a massive waste of money.
Well, we certainly get what we vote for – if we don’t demand efficiency and competence, we are unlikely to get it.
But I am more concerned with a projection that does not assume BAD weather this time of year. Certainly it has rained pretty hard, but us this worse than we would generally expect?
oops – “is” this worse… Posting on a phone on a bus.
There is a guy sitting in a Toyota Tacoma truck Lic# B24055K he is just sitting there sleeeping idling away in the truck GETTING PAID.
WTF?
The guy in the truck was just the SPD officer that has to be there.
He must have been waiting for them to get there.
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