FOLLOWUP: Speed-cushion installation about to start on three Alki streets

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1:49 PM: We first showed you that map back in August, when SDOT confirmed where it’s planning to add speed cushions on 60th, 61st, and 62nd SW in the heart of Alki. After a reader spotted the first preparatory outlines this week, we asked SDOT for an update on the construction timeline. They say installation will start as soon as next week (Monday, October 20 and beyond), weather permitting, and hope to provide us more details shortly. Here’s the original construction notice.

2:39 PM: Update from SDOT spokesperson Mariam Ali: “The start of construction has been pushed to Wednesday, October 22, due to rain … Construction is expected to last about four days total across all three streets, with each block impacted for roughly one day. The schedule will continue to be weather dependent since wet conditions prevent asphalt work.” Sidewalks are expected to remain open but drivers might have to detour during “active construction.”

oniom October 17, 2025 (4:11 pm)

On 60th? I lived on 60th my first year in Seattle, but never drive down that street any more because it’s too narrow and crowded with parked cars. How can any one speed through there?

Actualperson October 17, 2025 (4:45 pm)

You’re right-same with 62nd. Problem is the city wants to spend our money on “something meaningful to make roads safer” but isn’t capable of actually doing so.
1994 October 17, 2025 (10:00 pm)

Whenever I have driven down those 3 streets there are cars parked bumper to bumper and I can not understand how those streets would need speed cushions.

Keep asking October 17, 2025 (8:10 pm)

We keep asking for bumps/humps at 63rd and beach. Where ppl peel out around the curve to head back up admiral after cruising beach. It is nightly during the summer. It’s dangerous. And all night. These are major arterials, not the narrow side streets the city is installing for now. ????

G October 18, 2025 (4:56 pm)

Yes, this would be the logical street for it. I’ve had to dodge cars that run the stop sign there while crossing as a pedestrian.

WS Person October 17, 2025 (11:40 pm)

What a joke to put them on 60th between Admiral and Alki. As others said it’s so narrow speeding is a non issue. They would be better on the south side of admiral on 60th were people speed down the hill to cut over on Hinds to 61st. Typical city Idiocracy

North Admiral Cyclist October 18, 2025 (5:51 am)

For the reasons others have pointed out, I’d rather they spent the money on better physical separation of the bike path and street parking through this area. Where the City installed the pylons between parking and the bike path, wayward drivers can (almost) find their designated parking space. In the long stretches of no pylons or physical separation next to the parking lane, the “disoriented” drivers and out right violators pull into the bike path. Yes, many parking drivers have a disoriented look on their face when they attempt to park and even U-turn in this area. Drivers “afraid” of speeding cars driving by drive into and park overhanging and even in the middle of the bike path and/or the buffer (where you can actually see the buffer, as the paint is long gone in many areas). Besides intruding into an already heavily used and congested bike path, parking overhanging the bike path and even the buffer has the effect of widening the adjacent road – resulting in drivers on Alki feeling confident to drive faster.

bill October 18, 2025 (8:23 am)

This same problem of drivers intruding into the bike lane exists on Avalon, particularly on the downhill side. I’ve talked with two parking officers about this. Cars are supposed to be parked inside the rectangle, not in the striped buffer zone. The buffer is to keep passenger-side doors from intruding into the bike lane. A passenger popping a door open into the bike lane could cause a terrible crash. Yet the city does not enforce. There’s hundreds of dollars of fines going unlevied every day on Avalon. Low hanging fruit.

Jack October 18, 2025 (9:05 am)

Motorcycles seem to the main annoyance and speeders in the area. Harley’s with straight pipes and Ninja style crotch rockets with altered exhaust just flying down the streets. Why, because in an effort to help emergency vehicles, the speed cushions don’t go all the way across the streets and the motorcycles take advantage and are not slowed AT ALL. The new cushions on 60th, 61st & 62nd will be like the ones on 56th and go all the way across. With cars parked on both sides and these new cushion’s it will help. Of course traffic enforcement by SPD would do the job but it’s absolutely does not exist. When is the last time you someone on Alki pulled over??

I live on 62nd October 18, 2025 (5:55 pm)

I want to know what motivation SDOT has to willfully ignore a huge problem and put money where it’s not urgently needed. I can hear the cars speeding a peeling out from my home a block away on 63rd. The decision to spend the money to put speed bumps on my street is beyond ridiculous. It’s actually quite difficult to speed on my street because of how narrow it is and there’s a huge need for them one block over. Ridiculous!

Jeff Olson October 18, 2025 (1:17 pm)

The city still didn’t listen. Keeping 62nd a two way just keeps the car wars going.

1994 October 18, 2025 (4:43 pm)

Perhaps too much Levy money is available and needs to be spent to justify all the taxes collected? SDOT needs to get a grip with some of their ideas to calm traffic and put the money where it really needs to go rather than waste it on pointless so called improvements. Check out the SDOT proposal for the citizen requested cross walks on Fauntleroy near the ferry dock. Over thought, over engineered, over priced with a proposed median and lane narrowing. Just paint the cross walks and install a button activated red lights, leave the lanes alone.

Jerome October 18, 2025 (6:02 pm)

I agree with other comments re 60th, 61st and 63nd. Far too crowded to speed. 63rd is by far the most important and dangerous speeding street. I suggest bombarding Rob Saka with emails about this.

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