Seattle startup’s bright idea: High-tech crosswalk could signal a way to improve pedestrian safety by Kurt Schlosser on February 10, 2021 at 8:00 am February 10, 2021 at 10:08 am Share 361 Tweet ...

You may have noticed it. Then again, you might not have while recently driving past crosswalks around Seattle. The Seattle Department of Transportation has slowly made a tiny change to traffic ...

Our safety relies on them. We tap without second thought. Yet to the average pedestrian crossing the street, exactly how push-to-walk buttons work remains a mystery.

Seattle is expected to expand the number of crosswalks where pedestrians get a head start over turning traffic in hopes of curbing pedestrian deaths.

And here's where drivers get priority, in RCW 46.61.240: "Every pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection ...

Seattle resident John Healey says there's a new health club at the base of Queen Anne attracting neighborhood residents. But getting to it poses a real risk to health. A marked crosswalk at ...

Pedestrian crossing flags seem to be in vogue around Seattle — whether installed formally by the city or informally by concerned neighbors.

The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) said drivers are already starting to see more of these signs, as it is two-thirds of the way through installing No Turn on Red signs at 41 ...

Shortly before 5 a.m., a driver heading north on 4th Avenue South hit a man who was in the road and "not in an area designated for pedestrian crossing," according to the Seattle Police Department ...