Mount Baker Park Archives | South Seattle Emerald

by Jack Russillo

Over the holiday weekend, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) will close a one-mile section of Lake Washington Boulevard — from Mount Baker Park to Genesee Park — to cars and open it up for pedestrians to recreate freely. The closure will begin “around noon” on Friday, May 28, when SDOT crews put up barriers on the roadway. The road will be open to cars again on the morning of Tuesday, June 1.

“We hear from a lot of people who love it and that it just feels like freedom for them to have this space to walk, bike, walk with strollers, roller skate, scoot on scooters, and just be with the open space of Lake Washington,” said Sara Colling, a senior outreach lead at SDOT. “It just opens up a lot of opportunities. With that, there are tradeoffs, which is why the decision-making process is complicated.”

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by Andrew Engelson

Thanks to an enthusiastic response from city residents, one mile of Lake Washington Boulevard will be closed to car traffic and open to walking, cycling, and rolling from Friday Dec. 18 through Sunday, Jan. 3. Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) announced the one-mile “Keep Moving” street after many people got outside to enjoy the three-mile closure of the street to cars over the summer. The current one-mile pedestrian-only stretch, which was also in effect over the Thanksgiving holiday, spans between Mount Baker Park in the north and Stan Sayres Memorial Park in the south.

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