Landscape Median Updates

A demonstration was cast at the Public Works Maintenance facility.  This is what it looks like.  In addition to this project, a separate construction project downtown will update medians, expanding them to reach the crosswalks nearby, include this standard to tie the improvements together.

The project plans are included on this webpage as a link to the pdf.  

No, this project does not remove trees from any medians receiving the treatment. Two medians on Central way have existing trees (at Peter Kirk Park, and between 3rd Street and 2nd Street) which are protected in the plans and will remain (baring a discovery regarding the health of the tree or an accident).  

Central Way between 5th Street and 4th Street

Central Way between 4th Street and 3rd Street

Central Way between 3rd street and 2nd Place

Central Way between 1st Street and Market Street

This location will also have median work associated with a separate pedestrian safety project that is grant funded and headed into construction as well.  Additionally, the Central Way and NE 124th Street Pedestrian Safety project will extend the medians on Central Way at Lake Street and 1st Street, adds a missing section of dedicated bike lanes on Central Way, installs a new center median where Market Street enters Marina Park, and has some sidewalk design repairs to increase pedestrian visibility and safety.  

Market Street at 16th Avenue West

Market Street at 18th Avenue past 18th Avenue West

Market Street between 20th Avenue West and 20th Avenue

Project vicinity map

Citywide, there is an estimated amount of 165,000 square feet of center medians along the City’s streets, 113,000 square feet of landscaped area.

For most medians on Market Street, parking will be restricted near the medians and the travel lanes will shift around the center medians. There are two travel lanes in each direction on Central Way, so drivers will be shifted into a single lane. At Market Street and Central Way intersection, the geometry is complex and requires flaggers to safely control traffic, likely alternating travel direction through that location. Work hours for all these traffic impacts are no earlier than 9 a.m. and be out of the roadway by 3 p.m., barring unexpected conditions or emergencies.

There is a private development project that scheduled a northbound closure of a section of Market Street in February, which is unrelated to this project.