ROAD WORK UPDATES: What’s next along Delridge-Highland Park Greenway

(WSB photo from Tuesday)

Just in from the team working on the Delridge-Highland Park Greenway, updates on what they’re doing now and plan to do next:

21st Ave SW between 22nd Ave SW and SW Dawson St

Crews recently completed drainage improvements just south of where 22nd Ave SW merges with 21st Ave SW. Crews will return next week to repair the curb on the west side of the merge and pave the remaining gravel areas north and south of the landing on the east side of 21st Ave SW.

Installation of the sidewalk on the west side of 21st Ave SW between 22nd Ave SW and SW Dawson St is currently underway and, weather permitting, should be complete by January 29.

17th Ave SW cul-de-sac between SW Myrtle and SW Webster streets

Once work on 21st Ave SW is complete, construction will continue on a pedestrian and bicycle pathway at the cul-de-sac on 17th Ave SW between SW Myrtle and SW Webster streets. This work will require water shut-offs while crews install steel casing to create the pathway. Seattle Public Utilities will provide advance notification of these shut-offs.

For information regarding water shut-offs, please call the SPU Residential Customer Service hotline at (206) 684-3000.

Click here to view the construction notice

15th Ave SW and SW Holden St

The south side of the intersection at SW Holden St and 15th Ave SW will be closed until Friday, January 22, while crews complete installation of curb ramps and sidewalk. Those needing local access to 15th Ave SW are encouraged to use SW Kenyon St to the south.

Click here to view construction notice

The Delridge-Highland Park Neighborhood Greenway will connect West Seattle to White Center, running generally along 21st Ave SW in the north and 17th Ave SW in the south. Construction started in late August 2015 and will take approximately 6 months to complete, weather permitting.

LBJ January 21, 2016 (10:07 am)

Yet still nothing about the new 20 mph signs in the 21st SW -22nd SW Dawson. Is is temporary while the construction is being done (in addition to the alternating one lane roadway) or is it permanent? And why have the signs been put up without any “Hey! This is new” stuff like flags on the Speed Limit signs and such?

WSB January 21, 2016 (10:31 am)

We’ll ask the project team. Stand by! Assuming they respond today, I’ll update this.
WSB January 21, 2016 (1:31 pm)

Here’s the reply. I have re-replied just to verify that the 20 mph is permanent: “The 20 MPH signage was installed along 21st Ave SW between 22nd Ave SW and SW Dawson St on January 12. Due to today’s rain, pouring sidewalk on the west side of 21st Ave SW just south of the merge at 21st Ave SW and 22nd Ave SW was canceled. We hope to continue tomorrow if we can get a break in the weather long enough to pour. Striping and remaining signage installation along the greenway route is not finished and will continue into February.”
- WSB January 21, 2016 (5:17 pm)
  
  And reply #2 from SDOT: Yes, the 20 mph is permanent.

Robert January 21, 2016 (10:21 am)

how about targeting the w”widow makers”that are hanging over the road? the ivy,[a declared noxious weed] is killing the trees. they are dangerous to both cars and walkers..hiland parkway is a good shortcut to down town, and heavily traveled..

NativeToSeattle January 21, 2016 (10:50 am)

I’m glad that the improved crosswalk will be there. I really wish there was a light at that intersection. It is so difficult to see when you are turning left from 21st Ave onto 22nd. I’m really careful, but you have to move into the street to see any cars coming up the hill. I’ve had quite a few close calls there!

datamuse January 22, 2016 (10:55 am)

Me, too. That’s my usual bike route from the bridge back to my home in Highland Park and peering around that corner without getting too far into the street can be challenge. (It would help if the residents on that corner would mow their yard occasionally.)

PP Walker January 22, 2016 (9:59 am)

I read this report with great interest. For the last week I have been trying to contact SDOT with this email;

“The recently replaced pavement at the intersection of 21st Ave SW and SW Andover was not properly sloped from the center of the street to the curb side as required by SDOT regulations. As a result, water sheets across the whole panel right at the new Stop sign. During the recent frost and freeze periods, the improperly graded panels with water froze causing vehicles to skid out of control through the stop sign. I have brought this up twice already with SDOT crews on site including the large group of SDOT workers at the base of the stairs being rebuilt yesterday. This is a new problem caused by the new pavement and did not exist before.”

So far no one at SDOT can figure out who did the faulty concrete work. Maybe WSB can get to the bottom of it?Another looming issue is after the millions spent upgrading pedestrian infrastructure, nothing is being done to enforce laws banning parking on sidewalks. 23rd Ave SW where it merges into North Delridge has sidewalks totally blocked with cars. The divided section of 21st also unwalkable sidewalks for the students attending the nearby schiool. Parking enforcement uses their “digression” in not issuing citations which could quickly solve the problem. I have called this to the attention of Jim Curtin and brought it up at a Pigeon Point Neighborhood meeting where the “King of Pigewon Point”, Pete, dismissed me in his wonderful Louisianna drawl, “everybody knows they allow this on Pigeon Point”. What?