How’s One Center City doing?

If you're like me, you've lost track of all the near-term projects that were supposed to get downtown through a period with multiple disruptive construction projects. It doesn't help that there's a near-term set of improvements and other longer-range plans that one can confuse.

Luckily, the City Council mandated that SDOT provide a quarterly report on how the near-term OCC stuff is doing. Here's a summary of the bus stuff:

• 5th/6th bus lanes: two blocks on 5th and eight on 6th, done and on-budget.
• Montlake Triangle: shorter walking distances, a short bus lane, and better turns for buses: on schedule for September. UPDATE: Metro says they're not going to have buses using these till March 2020.
• a one-block 4th bus lane and one queue jump: delayed from March to June due to building construction; added savings will get us another queue jump.
• 2nd/4th signal improvements to speed up buses: done and on-budget.
• 3rd Ave ORCA Readers/All-door boarding: a year late (to March 2020) and $3m overbudget. "Metro and the design consultant were not familiar with SDOT's sidewalk restoration standards." They're using hand-scanners for now, and savings elsewhere will cover the budget gap.
• Bigger bus stops and rider environment improvements in Chinatown and Pioneer Square: on track for this September.

On the bike front, all three of the big downtown projects - PBLs on Pike/Pine and 4th, plus the 2nd Ave Extension bike lane - are either behind schedule or threatening to become so.

There are plenty of pedestrian and other programs as well, which you can read about in the report.