FOLLOWUP: New date for Alki Point Healthy Street construction

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Five days after SDOT announced it would add “features” to the Alki Point Healthy Street plan, it’s announced a new construction start date:

As soon as Saturday, June 1, crews will resume installation of the permanent treatments for the Alki Point Healthy Street. This work includes:

-A 10-foot-wide shared walking/rolling space
-Three ADA parking spaces
-Stop controls at intersecting streets
-Pavement markings, parking signs, and striping the public parking lot

Unauthorized on-street parking located within 20 feet of intersections will be removed for new installation. Please visit the project webpage for more information on design elements.

The plan includes two “public parking lots” – along Benton, north of the stormwater-treatment plant, and the existing one by the lighthouse. Meantime, the fate of one Healthy Street location in West Seattle has yet to be decided – Delridge-Highland Park.

seww May 29, 2024 (1:07 pm)

So it starts… they’ve already wrecked the expansive view at the point with super tall NO PARKING signs wrapping around the entire point along the sidewalk beachside. Wtaf? Thanks for ruining it

DRW May 29, 2024 (1:13 pm)

I wish SDOT would fix the 4th Ave S bridge first. Or repave Holgate St

reed May 29, 2024 (1:39 pm)

Complain to the railroads, they are holding it up, not SDOT.
- Steve May 29, 2024 (6:55 pm)
  
  Thanks Reed. That’s interesting. Who knew?

walkerws May 29, 2024 (1:29 pm)

Heck yeah! I am so excited about this improvement to Alki Point/Constellation Park!

lucy May 29, 2024 (3:04 pm)

How will this be enforced? Will SPD be sitting in cars waiting to ticket cars that enter the Healthy Street?

jason May 29, 2024 (3:47 pm)

Yeah I have not seen anyone obey this yet. Cars still just go through pretending they live there and then just park and hang out and leave later.
walkerws May 29, 2024 (3:49 pm)

Hopefully :)
Vision Zero failed May 29, 2024 (4:20 pm)

It’s N O T illegal to drive into ANY Stay Healthy Street at any time and under any conditions.
- Walkerws May 29, 2024 (8:37 pm)
  
  That’s the next step though, hopefully :)
- Bbron May 30, 2024 (4:17 am)
  
  “Healthy Streets are closed to pass through traffic”, so no, you cannot use them “at any time and under any conditions”. Drivers need to work on their entitlement.
  - Vision Zero failed May 31, 2024 (7:34 pm)
    
    No, Bbron, Healthy Streets are NOT closed to ANY drivers at ANY time, regardless of what the city claims. Drivers can pass-thru all they want. Otherwise, there would be signage listing hours that the streets are open, use permits, etc. These are public roads, not private.
Come on people May 29, 2024 (4:34 pm)

Are you trying to gaslight people or do you still not understand? People can and will continue to drive on that public road. It will deter many people and they won’t be able to park on the preferred side for nature watching from their car but nothing they are doing will make it an offense to drive down the road. Get a grip!

Jenna S May 29, 2024 (3:32 pm)

Can’t wait for this to get done! Thanks to the Mayor, SDOT and Director Spotts, and CM Saka! I think this is at least the 3rd time we’ve heard about the construction being imminent. Crossing fingers third time is the charm and there are no more delays.

GreenLakesLover May 29, 2024 (3:39 pm)

Hooray, bring it on I can’t wait!

BeachCombOver May 29, 2024 (3:42 pm)

Yes please! Glad to see this finally going through. Always a fan of change that and a prioritizes safety, access and sustainability.

Cycling Mom May 29, 2024 (3:44 pm)

My entire group of West Seattle area parents with younger children are looking forward to the Alki Point streets to be safer to ride and walk. We want to enjoy the beautiful view without dodging speeding cars. Thank you SDOT!! There will still be plenty of parking spaces.

Niko May 29, 2024 (4:04 pm)

Anybody else on board with staging a stop work protest?!

Puget Sound Perspective May 29, 2024 (4:27 pm)

Would love to but I’ll be busy chaining myself to the tennis courts at Lincoln Park in case anyone tries to play pickleball! Fight change (of any kind)!
walkerws May 29, 2024 (4:31 pm)

Reasonable people are cheering on this improvement.
walkerws May 29, 2024 (4:44 pm)

I’ll be there staging a “start work” celebration :)

Cycling Mom May 29, 2024 (4:29 pm)

Are you kidding? This street is dangerous, we should celebrate the project!

Mountain Biking Mom May 29, 2024 (5:05 pm)

Are you kidding? This street will be far more dangerous with traffic being squeezed down to one lane, drivers circling the neighborhood for fewer parking spots, cyclists shooting back into traffic at 64th, etc.

GreenLakesLover May 29, 2024 (5:19 pm)

.The section of Beach Dr. that is included in the SHS is NOT an arterial road, meaning it is not an essential connection to a road or highway. You don’t need to take it to get somewhere. That said it is now, and will continue to be, a public street that any member of the public can drive on . So if driving the street just to make a point is important to you, go right ahead. Thankfully measures will soon be in place to protect pedestrians and rolling wheels from those drivers (not all but sadly far too many ) who speed, don’t share the road and yes in some cases actually intimidate people with their vehicles (I speak from personal experience on this). I can’t wait for this project to be installed.

Bbron May 30, 2024 (4:25 am)

I think drivers don’t understand their entitlement is what ultimately caused this project and other permanent infrastructure changes. Y’all prove time and time again both on the streets, in the policies you advocate for, and in what you post on this blog’s comment section that you’ll disregard signage, ignore rules of the road you don’t agree with, and are stubbornly resistant to even the slightest bit of change to accommodate others that users of all other modes of transit have to commonly put up with (predominately at the behest of cars). Because of the refusal to have a collective behavioral change, infrastructure has to be taken away from y’all permanently to allow others to safety use it, too. The future is not more cars and more car infrastructure; if you truly think that, you are sorely misinformed, as all it takes is an observation of what we currently have and then seeing there is no room to accommodate more cars without continuing to consume space for humans and continued subsidization from other programs (for humans) which would be regressive.