Here’s a look at proposed changes to the intersection at 24th & Market.
Proposed changes. A larger version can be found here.
As we wrote last week, the Seattle Department of Transportation is working to make Metro routes, mainly the 44, more reliable from the U District to Ballard. One of the intersections to be affected by the changes is at 24th Ave NW and NW Market Street.
Current conditions. A larger version can be found here.
The Ballard District Council has voiced concern about these changes. We spoke with Catherine Weatbrook of the BDC who says that the changes may do what SDOT plans “at the expense of every other user, including other bus routes, just not the 44,” she says. “We didn’t really find that acceptable.” Weatbrook recently sent this letter (.pdf) to Peter Hahn, the director of SDOT, on behalf of the BDC. Hahn replied by inviting Weatbrook and two other Ballard representatives to join him and observe that intersection next week.
Bill Bryant with SDOT tells us that the specific design of the project is expected to be completed in April and construction could start sometime between late this year and late 2012.