Update on transit improvements on NW Market St.

If you’ve traveled down NW Market St. in the past few weeks, you’ve surely noticed the gaping holes on either side of the road at both 11th Ave NW and 28th Ave NW. The Seattle Department of Transportation dug up the sidewalks a few weeks ago, part of the process that will widen the sidewalks for safer bus stops. SDOT says there were some delays due to issues with underground utilities, but that concrete should be going in within the next week if weather cooperates, and lanes should reopen by the end of next week.

The work is part of the Transit Priority Corridor Improvement (TPCI) projects, which are designed to, “increase the efficiency of the transit system, helping people move quickly and reliably through Seattle’s busiest corridors,” says SDOT. This project will improve what SDOT calls, “one of the city’s most heavily traveled areas.”

SDOT plans to have crews, “make improvements to sidewalks, curb ramps, bus bulbs, pedestrian lighting and other passenger amenities.”