Painting the street red

Taylor Winkel

Taylor Winkel Jul 6, 2025

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h2><p>The DOT is completing Seattle’s very first red-colored bus lane today. The department says painting the lanes red will more clearly identify the difference between transit and regular traffic lanes. The result? The department is hoping for more efficient bus commutes. The red lanes are supposed to remind other</p></h2>
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            <p>The DOT is completing Seattle’s very first red-colored bus lane today. The department says painting the lanes red will more clearly identify the difference between transit and regular traffic lanes. The result? The department is hoping for more efficient bus commutes. The red lanes are supposed to remind other drivers to stay out. And at $15,000 per block, according to SDOT’s communications office, we hope they do. The city began today with a section near Fourth and Battery. According to the Seattle Transit Blog, they also have plans for areas near the Montlake Bridge, Wallingford around N. 45th Street and Midvale Place and in Belltown on part of Wall Street.</p>
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The DOT is completing Seattle’s very first red-colored bus lane today. The department says painting the lanes red will more clearly identify the difference between transit and regular traffic lanes. The result? The department is hoping for more efficient bus commutes. The red lanes are supposed to remind other drivers to stay out. And at $15,000 per block, according to SDOT’s communications office, we hope they do. The city began today with a section near Fourth and Battery. According to the Seattle Transit Blog, they also have plans for areas near the Montlake Bridge, Wallingford around N. 45th Street and Midvale Place and in Belltown on part of Wall Street.

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By Taylor Winkel

Taylor Winkel is a Journalism and Political Science student at the University of Washington. Follow her on Twitter: @twinkelnews. She can be emailed at Taylor.Winkel@crosscut.com.