From District 1 City Councilmember Lisa Herbold

SDOT and King County Metro are holding an open house on upcoming work to convert Bus 120 into the Rapid Ride H Line in 2021. SDOT’s work on this is the Delridge Multimodal Corridor project, to increase transit speed and access.

The open house will be on Thursday, May 30th from 5-7 p.m. at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center at 4408 Delridge Way SW.

Here’s a link to SDOT’s project page, and KC Metro’s H Line webpage.

Last year the Council voted to amend the criteria for the voter-approved Seattle Transportation Benefit District to allow for additional funding for Route 120.

As part of my work on enhancing capital project oversight, I have sponsored two “stage-gating” spending restrictions on the Delridge Multimodal Corridorproject to require check-ins with the Council before voting to authorize additional spending for design. Earlier this year the Council approved spending to complete design; final approval will be considered during the 2020 budget process, beginning when the Mayor releases her proposed 2020 budget in late September.

The project includes bus lanes, landscaped medians, crosswalk improvements, protected bike lanes, neighborhood greenway connections, signal upgrades, paving, water and sewer pipe upgrades, spot parking and bike lane removal, and public art.