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From our Bike Events Calendar
Mar30Thu7:15 pm Point83 @ Westlake ParkPoint83 @ Westlake ParkMar 30 @ 7:15 pm
Meet up in the center of the park at 7ish. Leave at 730. Every Thursday from now until forever rain or shine. Bikes, beers, illegal firepits, nachos, bottlerockets, timetraveling, lollygagging, mechanicals, good times.Apr1Sat9:00 am First Saturday Neighborhood Clea...First Saturday Neighborhood Clea...Apr 1 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pmEvery month volunteers gather to collect garbage and help beautify our neighborhood. On average, we collect about 15 bags of garbage per clean up, which means 1,000’s of small pieces of plastic that do not find their way into Puget … Continue readingApr4Tue7:30 pm NW Greenways Meeting @ Virtual via ZoomNW Greenways Meeting @ Virtual via ZoomApr 4 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pmOur regularly scheduled meeting, happens every other month. Please check NW Greenways Twitter account – https://twitter.com/NWGreenways, our Google Group – https://goo.gl/W9jmzW or our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/NWGreenways/) to confirm the meeting.Apr5Wed6:00 pm Seattle Bicycle Advisory Board M...Seattle Bicycle Advisory Board M...Apr 5 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pmMonthly agendas can be found at: http://www.seattle.gov/seattle-bicycle-advisory-board/meetings/meeting-agendas The Seattle Bicycle Advisory Board (SBAB) advises the Mayor, City Council, and City Departments and Divisions on projects, policies, and programs that improve and/or affect bicycling conditions in Seattle. Responsibilities SBAB’s responsibilities include: … Continue reading
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Alert 3/31-4/3: 520 Bridge Trail closed over the weekend
From WSDOT: CLOSURES 3/31-4/3 WB 520 off-ramp to Montlake Blvd will close from 8 p.m. on Friday to 5 a.m. on Monday. WB 520 off-ramp to Lake Washington Blvd will close from 6 p.m. on Friday to 5 a.m. on … Continue reading
On vacation in Amsterdam
Greetings from the lower countries! We took our five-year-old on her first trip out of the country for a somewhat spontaneous family vacation to Amsterdam. We spotted a surprisingly cheap flight a couple months ago and bought the tickets on … Continue reading
Work to connect the Duwamish Trail to the Spokane Street Bridge will start in early April
The Duwamish Trail will finally connect to the Spokane Street Bridge in May, SDOT told area stakeholders. Work will begin in early April and, weather permitting, should be be completed in just a couple weeks. The permanent trail connection will … Continue reading
WA Bikes: Here come the state budget proposals
For those who have never paid attention to a Washington State legislative session before, we are about to enter the next distinct phase of the session: The budget. The early months of the session are mostly focused on general policy … Continue reading
Some thoughts on the Chinatown-International District Station planning debate
Seattle Bike Blog is not where people usually go to read about light rail station placement debates. But as a Seattle resident who cheers for both an affordable and thriving International District as well as the best transit service we … Continue reading
Commute Seattle survey: Driving, transit and walking down, biking unchanged, and remote work way up
Commute Seattle dramatically expanded its annual analysis of work trip survey data, finding a wealth of interesting data about how the city’s commute patterns have changed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The biggest change by far is that … Continue reading
Watch: Take a history tour of North Beacon Hill by bike
Bob Svercl’s latest video is a bike ride around North Beacon Hill focused on some history highlights of the area. He even included a route map if you are inspired to ride to the featured areas yourself. This is the … Continue reading
Renton starts work on short section of Rainier Avenue trail + Seattle should prepare a connection
There’s a very interesting piece buried deep within a major roadway rebuild project on Rainier Avenue in Renton: 1,000 feet of trail on the east side of the street that will someday be part of the Lake Washington Loop connecting … Continue reading
CM Strauss asks mayor to study Market and Leary for Missing Link
Councilmember Dan Strauss sent a letter (PDF) to Mayor Bruce Harrell asking him to shift SDOT’s Missing Link efforts to focus on designing and building a Burke-Gilman Trail connection on Market Street and Leary Way in Ballard. “I see a … Continue reading
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Trails near Judkins Park Station will get lights
Trail connections to the under-construction Judkins Park light rail station will get lighting as the city and Sound Transit work to improve station access conditions before it opens in … uh … well, at some point. Judkins Park Station is … Continue reading
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Tagged I-90 trail, judkins park, judkins park station, sdot, sound transit
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WA Bikes: Driver’s license review bill ‘very likely’ + More legislature updates
We are well into the phase of the legislative session where it becomes really difficult to keep track of which bills are moving, which ones are stalled, which have been amended to be better, which have been amended to be … Continue reading
No, the city is NOT cutting down cherry trees to build a bike project
Contrary to what you may have read on Twitter or saw written on yellow signs on trees on Pike Street near the market, Seattle’s decision to cut down cherry trees on the block between 1st and 2nd Avenues has nothing … Continue reading
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Tagged curbless streets, downtown, pike, pike pine renaissance, pike place market
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King County study finds helmet use unchanged after law repeal
One year ago, the King County Board of Health voted 11–2 to repeal the county’s rare all-ages bicycle helmet law. One of the arguments in favor of repeal was that the law was not a top reason that most people … Continue reading
Greenways and Cascade seek more specifics in plan to get Vision Zero back on track
SDOT is set to present their “top to bottom review” of the Vision Zero program to the City Council Transportation Committee March 7, and safe streets advocates are pushing for more specifics and hard deadlines to “light a fire under … Continue reading
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Tagged bruce harrell, cascade bicycle club, greg spotts, seattle neighborhood greenways, vision zero
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WA Bikes: Turn on red bill is dead, license reexamination bill moving forward + more legislature updates
Washington State bills banning turns on red near many key locations statewide are officially dead after neither the Senate nor the House failed to move them forward before a session deadline. This is how many bills die every year, essentially … Continue reading
Saturday: R+E Cycles celebrates 50 years in the U District
R+E Cycles is turning 50 years old, and the storied bike shop and frame builders behind the Rodriguez and Erickson custom bikes will be celebrating by hosting the return of the free Bike and Pike expo for the first time … Continue reading
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Tagged angel rodriguez, bike and pike, erickson bicycles, events, R+E Cycles, rodriguez bicycles
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Draft of SDOT’s Vision Zero review suggests internal reorganizing and more funding, but it feels small compared to our traffic violence emergency
On his first day on the job, SDOT Director Greg Spotts pledged a “top-to-bottom review” of the department’s Vision Zero program to figure out why traffic injuries and deaths are increasing, especially for people walking and rolling. He assigned employees … Continue reading
Alert 2/25-26: The 520 Trail will be closed (along with the rest of the bridge)
SR-520 will be closed this weekend as crews install girders for the future walking and biking bridge that will cross the freeway heading toward the Arboretum, among other work. The cross-lake trail will be closed along with the rest of … Continue reading
Construction to build major bike improvements brings many months of tough detours on Pike and Pine
Crews building improved bike lanes on Pike and Pike Streets downtown will close existing stretches of bike lanes for months at a time. So while both bike lanes were already incomplete, biking there will get worse before it gets better. … Continue reading
Watch: Why cars rarely crash into buildings in the Netherlands
With all the discussion recently about how people crash a car or truck into a Seattle building about twice a week, a commenter reminded me of a Not Just Bikes video from a couple years ago about why this rarely … Continue reading
