Yesterday, the Seattle City Council voted to cooperate with the Washington State Department of Transportation on three agreements concerning the tunnel to replace the Highway 99 Viaduct, keeping the ball rolling on the controversial project. This vote is one of two approval votes; this one during the design phase, with one more before groundbreaking. Mike O'Brien was the sole dissenter. Another dissenter, one not on the city council, is Mayor Mike McGinn. more ›

Seattlest will be counting down to 2011 with a series of posts on our highlights of this year and what we're looking forward to in the next. Got a list to suggest? Send it our way. See the entire series here. more ›

We brought it up a couple days ago, some time after MyBallard, HorsesAss, and Crosscut hit it, but apparently following snow-plowing in the wake of December's Snowpocalypse, the lines and "road turtles" dividing lanes on the Aurora Bridge and elsewhere disappeared. Apparently the plows just plain chopped them off. However, we've just received word from former Seattlest editor Seth that SDOT is . Can anyone offer confirmation? more ›

We first noticed it a few weeks ago and assumed that maybe all the gravel they threw down on the road was obscuring the lines, but this weekend we again made a rare trip up to Fremont on Highway 99 across the Aurora Bridge and, no joke, the line separating the right-most lane from the center lane appears to be gone. The painted lines have disappeared, and all that remains of the reflectors are gouges in the asphalt, both north- and south-bound. more ›