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Mayor Jenny Durkan names Sam Zimbabwe as her nominee to be the new SDOT director, Tuesday, at Seattle City Hall. At right is Paula Hammond, who once led WSDOT. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)

Mayor Jenny Durkan chooses Sam Zimbabwe, a D.C. transportation official, as new SDOT director

Durkan's pick for the crucial post, if confirmed by the City Council, will take charge as multiple projects are in various stages of development, all with their own significant impacts the city's congested roadways.

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Honggang Li installs a solar-powered device along the Burke-Gilman Trail in Lake Forest Park Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. Li is part of University of Washington team that is testing an app-based system where bicyclists and motorists receive phone alerts when their paths converge at an intersection.
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Can an app help avoid bike-car collisions on the Burke-Gilman Trail? UW students are testing it

GirlTrek’s co-founder and COO Vanessa Garrison, left, at GirlTrek’s second annual #StressProtest in Estes Park, Colorado, a weekend of radical self-care for Black women that hosted more than 400 attendees.

Ask an expert: How can Seattle make neighborhoods more accessible to walking?

Friday, Sept. 28, 2018. Cory Crocker is a volunteer advocate for the U District community who has helped orchestrate a set of recommendations for how they envision mobility in the neighborhood working when the new light rail station opens in 2021. He’s standing with a growth model of the U-District on University Ave. 207958

Transfers at Husky Stadium were ‘horrendous,’ for some users. So the community devised a plan.

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Transit

A King County Metro bus bound for Northgate heads north on the express lanes of I-5, as more snow hits the region, Monday, Feb. 11, 2019 in Seattle. The view is looking south from the Northeast 70th St. overpass. 209303

As the snow melts, King County Metro running more bus routes Wednesday

Roads

Wed. Feb. 13, 2019. Bassetti Architects office on the fifth floor of 71 Columbia Street at right is just feet away from the viaduct where deconstruction will begin. 209318

Crews will begin to crunch the Alaskan Way Viaduct into 3-inch chunks this week WATCH

Getting Around

Beckett Luthi, 9, shovels the sidewalk outside his home in West Seattle Friday, Feb. 8, 2019. Luthi’s family and their neighbors spent part of the afternoon sledding. 209285

Who’s responsible for clearing that snow and ice off the sidewalks?

Technology

Workers assemble an Electra Meccanica Vehicles Corp. Solo electric car at the company’s production facility in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada, on Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018. Electra Meccanica, which has a market value of just $41 million, yet $2.4 billion in pre-orders, says its quirky reimagination of an automobile aims to redefine the category. Photographer: Ben Nelms/Bloomberg 775296805