Seattle's Department of Transportation provides data on short-term street closures issued via Street Use permits. The dataset includes closures for activities like block parties, play streets, farmers markets, and cafe streets, but excludes parades, festivals, and construction. The data was last updated on March 22, 2026.
Use Cases
- Modeling pedestrian traffic patterns based on permitted block party and play street locations.
- Analyzing seasonal trends in public space use based on farmers market and cafe street permits.
- Planning community event logistics based on the distribution and frequency of non-construction street closures.
Strengths
- Data is provided in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, RDF, and XML.
- The dataset scope is clearly defined to include only non-construction activities, which may improve consistency.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.
Provenance
- Source
- City of Seattle, Seattle Department of Transportation
- Collection Method
- Issued Street Use permits.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-22 03:38:59.092837; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Seattle, Washington, USA