This past Tuesday, when SDOT reps talked with the City Council Transportation Committee about changes to the timeline for building Bicycle Master Plan projects, we noticed one in West Seattle prominently featured on a map from their slide deck:

It’s the SW Admiral Way Safety Project, which has been in the works for more than a year now, proposing bicycle lanes and other changes for much of the stretch of Admiral Way west of California SW, and drawing controversy along the way. It’s outlined on the map in this slide deck as “in-street (bicycle lanes), minor separation.” We last checked on it in March, when project spokesperson Dawn Schellenberg told us SDOT was “in the process of revising the design,” with no new timeline.

Two months later, Schellenberg responded to our renewed inquiry today with basically the same answer: “We are still working through some design decisions.” No date for presenting a revised proposal; the project webpage now promises some contact in “mid-2016.”

P.S. A few other West Seattle notes from the slides shown to the council committee this week: The new 5-year plan brings back proposed protected bike lanes for SW Morgan/Dumar and mentions a SW Myrtle neighborhood greenway; it puts on hold a proposed SW Juneau greenway, with SDOT reps mentioning briefly that it’s because Juneau would be parallel to the Morgan lanes. (We’ll be following up soon on the Morgan and Myrtle proposals; a plan for Morgan last came up four years ago, represented as imminent without neighborhood outreach, and was subsequently put on indefinite hold.)