Highland Park Area

Safety Project

Highland Park Action Committee (HPAC)

JimDepartment of Transportation
Curtin, James Le
10/23/2019
 Our vision, mission, and core values

Vision: Seattle is a thriving equitable Committed to 6 core values:

community powered by dependable • Equity
transportation • Safety
• Mobility
Mission: to deliver a transportation
system that provides safe and affordable • Sustainability
access to places and opportunities • Livability
• Excellence

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 Presentation overview
• Background
• Existing conditions
• Concepts
• General Q&A
• Feedback session

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 Goals
• Improve safety for ALL
• Identify and implement safety
improvements
• Enhance traffic operations
• Opportunity for public input

Highland Park Way SW & SW Holden St – looking westbound

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 Existing conditions N

• Principal arterial north of SW Holden St

• Minor arterial south of SW Holden St 11% grade
15,100 daily veh SW Holden St
• Major route into and out of West Seattle
• Serves up to 20,500 daily vehicles
• Metro Route #131 serves +1,400 daily trips SW Holden St

• The intersection is 90 feet wide

• Sight line issues with an 11% grade
SW Portland St

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 SW Myrtle St

Collision data
Last 5 years (2014-2018) SW Webster St

• 107 police reported crashes Highland Park

Improvement Club
N
• 1 pedestrian-vehicle crash SW Holden St

• 1 bicycle-vehicle crashes Project

area
• 39 injury crashes SW Kenyon St

9th Ave SW
16th Ave SW
• 2 serious injury crash*
• 2 fatalities
SW Thistle St
• Primary crash pattern at Highland Park Highland Park

Way SW & SW Holden St is NB left turning Playground

SW Cloverdale St
vehicles against southbound vehicles Highland Park
Elementary
Westcrest
* 6/10/2019 – one serious injury crash at Highland/Holden Park

SW Henderson St

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 Recent improvements

Near term improvements made in late 2018

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 Recent improvements – “zig zag” approaches

9th Ave SW and SW Cloverdale St 9th Ave SW and SW Trenton St

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 Recent improvements

Installed two sets of speed cushions near 16th Ave SW/SW Myrtle St for
Sanislo Elementary School (“Your Voice, Your Choice” and Safe Routes to School)

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 21th Ave SW
SW Myrtle St

Potential scope Existing Delridge

Greenways (2013)
• Evaluate treatments to

N reduce vehicular speeds

(43 MPH, 85th percentile
SW Webster St speeds)
Highland Park • Evaluate opportunity for
• Intersection improvements at • Update traffic signal
• Curb ramps
Improvement Club bike connection to
Duwamish Trail
Highland Park Way SW/SW Holden St SW Holden St

and 16th Ave SW/SW Holden St SW Kenyon St

• Traffic signal?
• Enhance lighting

• Evaluate opportunities for new • Sidewalks, curb ramps,

9th Ave SW
17th Ave SW

16th Ave SW
landscaping to shorten
crosswalk and bike facilities crossing distances

• Channelization changes, speed • Evaluate treatments to

reduce vehicular speeds
cushions, and/or curb bulbs to reduce Highland Park
Playground (37 MPH, 85th percentile

vehicular speeding SW Cloverdale St

Highland Park
speeds)
• Evaluate opportunities
for new crosswalk and
Elementary
bike facilities
SW Trenton St
Highland Park Westcrest
Connection (2018) Park
SW Henderson St

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Roundabout
Benefits
• Improved traffic flow (compared to a
traffic signal)
• Slows vehicles down to 20-25 MPH at the

SW Holden St
intersection
• Provides visual gateway into West Seattle
Considerations Circulating
Grading for 8 feet grade traffic
• 8 feet of roadway grading needed on roundabout
north approach (traffic circulating within
roundabout should be on a level grade) Existing grade

• Significantly higher cost Roundabout concept (2019)

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 Traffic signal
Benefits
• Addresses primary crash pattern
(northbound left turning vehicles
against southbound thru)
• Enhances operations for
eastbound traffic
• New marked crosswalks
• Provides dedicated time for
people driving, walking/rolling,
or biking Neighborhood Street Fund (2019) concept

• Opportunity for public art

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 Funding
$3.85 million
• $3.5 million from the Mayor’s 2020 Proposed
Budget (pending Council adoption)
• $350,000 remaining from Vision Zero*

* $500,000 total contribution from Vision Zero

($150,00 was spent for analysis and early design)

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 Project schedule
Date Activity/action

Fall 2019 Issues identification and design

Winter 2020 Outreach and design

Spring 2020 Design alternatives review meeting

Summer 2020 Final design meeting

2021 Construction

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 Feedback session
• Share your experiences
• Potential topics:
• Channelization
• Bicycle facilities
• Crosswalks/sidewalks
• Traffic signal / roundabout
• Transit
• Pavement condition
• Public space opportunities

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 Questions?
James.Le@seattle.gov
Adonis.Ducksworth@seattle.gov

www.seattle.gov/transportation

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