- Advertisement
- Got a tip? Email: [email protected]
Get posts in your inbox
-
Join the Seattle Bike Blog Supporters
Seattle Bike Blog Supporters receive endless love. And, of course, you will have satisfaction of knowing that you helped power independent bike news in the Seattle area. Please consider being a supporter if you are able, starting at $5 per month:
-
From our Bike Events Calendar
Feb5Sun9:00 am SNG Racial Equity Workshop with ...SNG Racial Equity Workshop with ...Feb 5 @ 9:00 am – 3:00 pmThis Sunday, February 5th, join Seattle Neighborhood Greenways for a FREE People’s Institute workshop on racial equity. This workshop on undoing racism and community organizing will be valuable for anyone, but is especially important for community organizations.RSVP Required. RSVP now as we have a limited … Continue reading →Feb6Mon6:00 pm SNG Phone Bank for I-135 @ ZoomSNG Phone Bank for I-135 @ ZoomFeb 6 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pmRegister now to get out the vote for I-135 with fellow Greenways advocates! This is a virtual event on Zoom. Training will be provided – no prior phone banking experience necessary.I-135 – the only item on the February 14 ballot … Continue reading →Feb7Tue6:30 pm West Seattle Bike Connections mo...West Seattle Bike Connections mo...Feb 7 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pmWe’ll meet in person at Zeke’s Pizza in the Morgan Junction.7:30 pm NW Greenways Meeting @ Virtual via ZoomNW Greenways Meeting @ Virtual via ZoomFeb 7 @ 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. Bike-Friendly Business Showcase
Advertisements-
Latest Stories
- SDOT will make some safety improvements to 15th Ave S as they work on bike lane design
- Vote YES on I-135 for social housing in Seattle
- It’s official, the Duwamish Trail connection on W Marginal Way is here to stay
- Sen. Cantwell: Seattle wins $25.7M grant for safe streets, mostly in SoDo
- Sign in now to show the WA Senate and House you support limiting turns on red
Seattle by Bike Flickr Pool
Top Posts
- SDOT will make some safety improvements to 15th Ave S as they work on bike lane design
- Vote YES on I-135 for social housing in Seattle
- Sen. Cantwell: Seattle wins $25.7M grant for safe streets, mostly in SoDo
- Seattle Area Bike Maps
- It's official, the Duwamish Trail connection on W Marginal Way is here to stay
Seattle Bike Links
- Biking Bis Bicycle touring and more
- Biking in the Rain By Aviva Stephens
- Cascade Bicycle Club Blog
- Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance
- No Spandex Required Blogging about a Jew biking in the City of Seattle
- Northwest In Motion The Northwest’s Active Community
- Seattle Bicycle Laws Know ‘em.
- Seattle Bike Counters Updated every night
- Seattle Neighborhood Greenways Find & join your neighborhood group!
- Walk.Bike.Schools Helathy kids needs healthy trips to school
- Washington Bikes blog
- West Seattle Bike Connections
Other Good Links
- Bus Chick Car-free since ’03
- Capitol Hill Seattle Neighborhood news for Seattle’s Capitol Hill.
- Family Ride Promoting everyday family biking.
- Seattle Transit Blog Name says it all
- The Urbanist Focused on Seattle-area urban policy
- Urban Adonia Anthropological analyses of bike culture.
- Walking In Seattle Bloggin’ about walkin’
Tags
- ballard
- beacon hill
- bellevue
- bicycle alliance of washington
- bike counter
- bike news roundup
- Bike Route Alert
- bike share
- bike thefts
- bike works
- burke-gilman
- burke-gilman trail
- capitol hill
- cascade bicycle club
- central district
- city council
- construction
- crime
- cycle tracks
- deaths
- dexter
- downtown
- ed murray
- events
- fremont
- injuries
- jenny durkan
- king county parks
- mike mcginn
- missing link
- neighborhood greenways
- pronto emerald city cycle share
- protected bike lanes
- rainier valley
- sdot
- seattle neighborhood greenways
- seattle times
- sound transit
- spd
- uw
- video
- wallingford
- washington bikes
- west seattle
- wsdot
Tag Archives: alaskan way viaduct
Bike on I-5, the Aurora Bridge and the soon-to-be-closed waterfront Viaduct April 8
Cascade Bicycle Club’s Emerald City Ride 2018 won’t ever be repeated because part of the route will be on the slated-for-demolishion Alaskan Way Viaduct. The third annual Emerald City Ride sticks with the theme: Bike on freeways typically off-limits to … Continue reading
Posted in news
Tagged alaskan way viaduct, aurora bridge, cascade bicycle club, emerald city ride 2018, events, i-5
15 Comments
Seattle still doesn’t need a downtown car tunnel, but crews deserve a victory lap today
Seattle Bike Blog has been opposed to the downtown car tunnel since this site started in 2010, and we still are. It’s an enormous investment in unsustainable transportation that will likely make downtown and South Lake Union traffic worse. It’s a … Continue reading
Walk through the Battery Street Tunnel Sunday + What will be its legacy in our city?
The Battery Street Tunnel has been part of Seattle for 65 years, but very few people have ever had the opportunity to walk through it. Well, Sunday morning is your chance. Walk the Battery is a free public event, part … Continue reading
Posted in news
Tagged alaskan way viaduct, aurora, b'End Tunnel, battery street tunnel, belltown, lid i-5, sr 99, waterfront
10 Comments
Seattle’s planned waterfront highway takes major step forward. It must be stopped.
It is 2016. Nearly every month this year reached the hottest global average on record. Cities across the world and across our nation are working to remove downtown highways that divide and depress their vital economic and cultural centers. Yet … Continue reading
Bike the Vote! Where to drop your ballot (+ NO on the Viaduct Park, YES on housing)
Voter turnout for the August 2 primary is looking very low so far. Don’t miss your chance to help the housing levy scream to victory. And hey, dropping your ballot at a dropbox is a great excuse for a bike … Continue reading
Our latest look at plans for a new downtown waterfront
The draft Environmental Impact Statement for the redesigned Seattle downtown waterfront is out. You have until August 12 to submit comments, which you can do via this online survey or by emailing [email protected] The final EIS should be out in … Continue reading
Seattle’s highway tunnel wins award! … for ‘Worst Highway Boondoggle’
Seattle is a city that is doing everything. Our city makes all the lists of places in the nation that are making smart decisions and getting results.* Best place to get a job? Made that list. Best new protected bike … Continue reading
Posted in news
Tagged alaskan way viaduct, deep bore tunnel, ed murray, nick licata, streetsblog, streetsie, tom rasmussen
5 Comments
Why Seattle should stop waiting for the tunnel and tear down the viaduct now
The megaproject to repair the delayed downtown highway megaproject has been delayed. Again. The tunnel project team had their shot to build the tunnel before the viaduct was torn down. They blew it, and now the viaduct is sinking beyond … Continue reading
Posted in news
Tagged alaskan way viaduct, deep bore tunnel, jean godden, rebertha, wsdot
43 Comments
WSDOT opens bike path under new Atlantic St Overpass
The biking and walking trail under the newly-opened Atlantic Street Overpass is now open, fixing a confusing bike connection between E Marginal Way and the Alaskan Way Trail into downtown. When the overpass opened to traffic early this year, the … Continue reading
Posted in news
Tagged alaskan way, alaskan way trail, alaskan way viaduct, deep bore tunnel, s atlantic st, sodo, wsdot
12 Comments
#ReturnBertha: Why we don’t need to finish the downtown tunnel highway
While we here at Seattle Bike Blog have been very much against the Highway 99 deep bore highway tunnel all along, it was mostly because it is too expensive for what we were going to get. Basically, by investing in … Continue reading
Reader hit by car under viaduct not injured, but concerned about safety on temporary bikeway
Steve Greenberg was struck by a somebody he says made an illegal right turn on red across the temporary bikeway under the Alaskan Way Viaduct. The collision occurred Friday morning where King Street crosses under the viaduct. He was not … Continue reading
WSDOT extending viaduct construction cycle track (with video!)
If you commute along the waterfront or via the ferry, you have probably gotten used to the bike detour changing over and over again. Sometimes it’s a big improvement, but sometimes it’s not. Well, brace yourself for another big change … Continue reading
W Seattle bike commuter explains danger posed near Terminal 46 (VIDEO)
Remember the scary tale by Kit Newman, who says he was nearly struck by a truck on S Alaskan Way near Atlantic? Well, West Seattle bike commuter Tom Furtwangler (from Bikejuju) made a video clearly outlining the problem:
Posted in news
Tagged alaskan way, alaskan way viaduct, freight, kit newman, tom furtwangler, video
23 Comments
What we can learn from the tunnel vote loss
Well, our city has voted to invest an astronomical amount of money to build a tunnel for cars. It’s an investment in the past, in pollution and in continued, long-term motor vehicle use. I can’t deny I’m a bit relieved … Continue reading
Posted in news
Tagged advocacy, alaskan way viaduct, aurora, deep bore tunnel, referendum 1
30 Comments
Alaskan Way S construction detour in place until April 8
Cyclists who use Alaskan Way to head south from downtown will be routed around a block of construction from now until April 8, according to WSDOT. In addition to the one-block detour, WSDOT is trying to route cyclists onto side … Continue reading
StreetFilms: Highway Removal
MBA_Trailer from Streetfilms on Vimeo. Meanwhile, Protect Seattle Now has gathered 29,000 referendum signatures. They need 16,503 of those to be accepted. Pretty good odds. Polls show only 35 percent of people in Seattle want a tunnel. Studies show far … Continue reading
Posted in news
Tagged alaskan way viaduct, deep bore tunnel, highway removal, streetfilms, tunnel
Comments Off on StreetFilms: Highway Removal
Viaduct shutdown idea gaining momentum
The same morning we wrote about the economics of highway removal and suggested we try closing the viaduct, Mayor McGinn was saying something similar on KUOW. So is Michael van Baker at the SunBreak (which has a wonderful new site … Continue reading
Posted in news
Tagged alaskan way viaduct, deep bore tunnel, earthquakes, japan, mike mcginn, seattle times, sunbreak, tom rasmussen
3 Comments
Must read for Viaduct removal skeptics: The economics of highway removal
In a post full to the brim with incredible economic stats, Elly Blue spells out the economic benefits of urban highway removal. Among the incredible bits of knowledge she reveals: “for the $75 million spent repaving three miles of urban … Continue reading
Posted in news
Tagged alaskan way viaduct, deep bore tunnel, elly blue, grist, highway removal
4 Comments