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A block-by-block look at the planned Broadway Bikeway extension + Let’s...
From a recent SDOT/Alta presentation to the Seattle Bicycle Advisory Board As construction on Capitol Hill Station enters its final phases, the long closure at the north end of the Broadway Bikeway may...
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Salomon: Seattle’s newest protected bike lane just part of normal street...
EDITOR’S NOTE: Andres Salomon is a father and active member of NE Seattle Greenways, as well as an occasional contributor to Seattle Bike Blog. Image from Google Maps Seattle has just added a brand new...
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NE 65th St is dangerous by design, and we know how to make it safer. What’s...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is a follow-up to yesterday’s report about Vehicular Homicide charges against Lucas McQuinn in the alleged DUI collision that killed Andy Hulslander. I suggest reading that...
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City kicks off development of downtown bike lane network, open house Tuesday
It’s really happening. Seattle is developing a connected network of bike lanes to and through the city center. This means connections to Uptown and Queen Anne, to South Lake Union, to Capitol Hill, to...
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Downtown traffic violence is a public health emergency we haven’t been treating
It’s not news that downtown streets are the scene of a huge number of serious traffic injuries and deaths. But this map at a recent open house still caught me completely off-guard. At first, I thought...
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St. Louis has more miles of downtown protected bike lanes than Seattle
So, I’m my hometown of St. Louis, Missouri, about to become godfather to my nephew Luke (yes, I will be insufferable with Don Corleone quotes for the next couple days), and I heard that there was a...
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Dearborn bike lane improvements will connect downtown to I-90 Trail, SE...
This terrible shifting bike lane will get a sorely-needed upgrade. Photo from SDOT. Dearborn Street is both flat and useful. So even though it is not packed with destinations itself and though it...
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Campus Parkway protected bike lanes will come tantalizingly close to...
The city has started laying out the spray-paint outlines for new protected bike lanes on NE Campus Parkway and one block of Brooklyn Ave NE in the U District. The project should be complete by the end...
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New 2nd Ave traffic signals clear up confusion
When the city finally upgraded the old skinny paint-only door zone bike lane on 2nd Ave in 2014, it was an incredible increase in biking comfort downtown. But almost immediately after opening one thing...
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City extends 9th Ave protected bike lanes + How can the city fix the Mercer...
Phase II of the 9th Ave bike lane extends the connection two blocks further to Harrison. We are two blocks closer to a complete connection between downtown and the Westlake Bikeway. SDOT installed...
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