Roundabouts coming to Shoreline
Monday, April 14, 2025
Shoreline is getting Roundabout Ready
What’s to like about roundabouts? Roundabouts are safer, more efficient, and cost effective than traditional signaled intersections.
In 2024, Shoreline’s first roundabout opened at NE 185th St by the Shoreline North transit station.
Right now, we are building two new multi-lane roundabouts on 145th Street.
Instead of regular traffic-light intersections at either end of the I-5 overpass, there will be a roundabout at each end of the interchange.
The City of Kirkland built similar roundabouts on I-405 at NE 132nd to move traffic on and off their freeway without traffic lights and congestion.
The City of Kirkland built similar roundabouts on I-405 at NE 132nd to move traffic on and off their freeway without traffic lights and congestion.
So how do you use a roundabout? Here are some tips for going round the new intersection:
- Watch this video from WSDOT on how to drive in a roundabout
- Pause before entering to check for the position of other vehicles
- Drivers entering the roundabout yield to traffic already in the roundabout
- Drivers travel counterclockwise around the center island
- Traffic in the roundabout circle the roadway until exiting at their desired street – no stopping in the roundabout
- More information here
Correction: 185th is the Shoreline North transit station
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10 comments:
sounds good but still disapointed at al the trees we lost to cars
185 th is the shoreline ‘north’ station.
When will this open? Traffic at the 145th st exit is just getting worse, backing up both N bound I5 and S bound I5.
So many people don't know how to drive through a roundabout that this is going to be a giant cluster at all hours of the day. Just another anti-car idea from our city council.
Roundabouts aren't going to save us. We live in a state that grants drivers licenses to anyone with a pulse. Ability to operate a vehicle doesn't seem to be a factor.
Roundabouts are much better than traffic lights. Expensive but great.
Hopefully the broken concrete roundabout at the North City light rail will be repaired soon.
Gonna' be exciting! would be great if we could expect some "enforcement" for the peeps that won't catch on to the plan
I certainly hope this works well but I am still going to avoid 145th for a while after it opens. Some real time training will either prove the benefit or a bigger mess.
I was behind a car at 185th and the driver would not enter the roundabout until it was completely empty!
Roundabouts are worthless the ones on 185th are already damaged from a truck impacting it. How's a extended buses or truck & trailer able to go around these land obstacles
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