The City's transportation engineer is responsible for administrative and engineering duties including comprehensive transportation planning, budget management, design of improvements and regulation of development.

The City fleet staff of three manage the purchasing, maintenance and surplus of all city vehicles for various City departments, including, Public Works, Parks and Recreation, Community Services and Police.

The City’s recently completed (2009) Transportation Improvement  Plan includes approximately $60 million in roadway and walkway projects that vary from repairing sidewalks to installing new signals. The estimated $500,000 per year the TBD board has set aside for these projects can be used as matching money for state or federal grants, bond repayment, or spent directly on repairs. City Engineering and the TBD board will review annually the highest and best use of these dollars for purposes of roadway preservation and capital project investments. (Click on Map of proposed projects to see the details)

Transportation Projects Map

Transportation
Commute Trip Reduction (CTR) Program

Currently, there are three agencies in Edmonds participating in the CTR program:

• • City of Edmonds
  • Stevens Hospital
  • Edmonds Family Medicine Clinic

For Snohomish County, Community Transit is responsible for coordinating with each of these agencies to monitor progress toward CTR program goals.  One method that is used to measure progress is by having each worksite conduct a survey every other year to evaluate employee commute options (alternatives).  The survey results are reviewed with the Community Transit Coordinator to see if the worksite is in compliance with CTR goals. To reach the goal, the worksite must attain either the SOV goal OR the vehicle miles traveled (VMT) goal (the sum of miles traveled by motor vehicles, divided by the number of employees). Each agency is responsible to make every good faith effort to reach SOV or VMT goals.

Throughout the year, to help encourage employees to participate in the program, there are many free Community Transit sponsored CTR program events that employees can participate in such as:

• • Wheel Options - typically held in October
  • Bike to Work Day - typically held in May/June 
  • Dump the Pump day.
  • Smart Commuter Rewards

Every employee in the city of Edmonds has a variety of different commuting options available which include:

• • Walking to work,
  • Biking to work,
  • Bus service through Community Transit (CT)  - Visit CT for Routes and Schedules
  • Carpooling or Vanpooling- through the Park-And-Ride Lot and RideshareOnline.com.  RideshareOnline.com assists commuters by providing free carpool, vanpool and bicycle ridematching services, bus/rail options, SchoolPool carpooling programs for parents, and information about the benefits of teleworking from home.
  • Train service through Sound Transit 
  • Ferry service - WSDOT Sailing Schedule 

The Comprehensive Transportation Plan was updated in 2009 and is updated every six years.  The plan includes existing conditions for all different modes of tranportation as well as proposed safety/mobility improvements through 2025 for streets, bikeways, walkways, and public transportation to improve the transportation system.  The Bikeway and Walkway plans are included in Chapters 4 and 5 of the plan. 

• • • Transporation Comprehensive Plan Document

When will my road be resurfaced?

CITY OF EDMONDS OVERLAY PROGRAM

Every two years, the City completes a pavement rating survey of each local, collector, and Arterial Street. This information is compiled in a list with each segment ranked based on its individual pavement rating score, ranging from 1 to 5 (best to worst). The City can then determine which segments are most in need of overlay.

No actual overlays have taken place since 2009 due to budget constraints and none are currently scheduled. The City’s desired overlay cycle for arterial/collector streets is 20 years, and 30 years for local (residential) streets. If the City were able to maintain this paving frequency the condition of our streets would be sustainable. We have, however, not been able to do that with available revenues. We have in fact not paved any streets with local money since 2008. We were only able to pave portions of  Dayton and 212th in 2009 using one-time federal stimulus funding. If current funding levels are not changed the entire paving program will remain inactive. Under that scenario the only paving taking place would be done by the Water, Sewer, or Stormwater Departments after they tear up streets for a pipeline project. These efforts would not, of course, be sufficient to make up for the absence of a formal overlay program.

Based on the most recent pavement rating data from 2010, 30% of all our City streets are listed as being in poor or severe condition (click on map below). This percentage will continue to increase as long as the overlay frequency doesn’t improve. A more detailed pavement rating study will be completed in 2012. The City continues to look for grant opportunities and new funding sources to improve City streets and expand the paving program. This issue remains the City’s top transportation issue.  

For further information, please call the Engineering Division at 425-771-0220.

Can we get a a stop sign installed to slow traffic?

Stop signs are intended to help drivers and pedestrians determine who has the right-of-way at an intersection.  Stop signs are installed where accidents or other data show that drivers are not observing the right-of-way rule under State law.  Edmonds, like many jurisdictions, does not install stop signs to slow traffic.  When stop signs are installed as "speed breakers", accidents will sometimes increase.