Tag: ballard bridge

May 8, 2017

Despite more than a decade of bicycle activism, Ballard Bridge remains a danger

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is by Taylor McAvoy through our partnership with UW’s Community News Lab journalism course. Riding home at night a few years ago, Haley Keller had to cross the Ballard Bridge with its notoriously skinny three-foot-wide sidewalks. She usually carries only one bag on the left side of her bike rack to avoid…
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tagged: ballard, ballard bridge, haley woods, jack connelly, jason fialkoff, news lab, scott kubly, sean cryan, taylor mcavoy, terry mcmacken
May 4, 2016

New signal to help Ballard buses could also create a new bike/walk connection

Taking advantage of a new traffic signal planned as part of an effort to speed up buses on 15th Ave NW, SDOT is planning a short neighborhood greenway to help connect homes and destinations long divided by the freeway-like 15th. The mega-street is a fossil of the mid-century freeway craze and currently has no safe…
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tagged: 11th ave nw, ballard, ballard bridge, nw 53rd street, summer jawson
September 2, 2015

Would fewer draw bridge openings help your bike commute?

Getting stopped for a draw bridge is one of those truly Seattle experiences, especially for people on bikes. Three of the busiest bike route chokepoints in the city are bridges that open for maritime vessels: Fremont, University and Montlake Bridges. Being on a bike lets you bypass the traffic backup and get up close to…
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tagged: ballard bridge, coast guard, fremont bridge, scott kubly, university bridge
May 27, 2015

Here’s how to make the Ballard Bridge safer now without spending a fortune

The Ballard Bridge is awful for biking and walking. That’s been well documented. And the solutions studied to retrofit the bridge to make it better for biking and walking carried one hell of a price tag, perhaps somewhere in the $20–$40 million range. That price means that even if the city finds the cash, those…
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tagged: ballard, ballard bridge, cascade bicycle club, connect ballard, haley woods, peddler brewing company, sean cryan
October 15, 2014

City moves dangerous Ballard Bridge sign + Peddler Brewing tells KIRO 7 why a change is needed

Biking over the Ballard Bridge can be a stressful and squished experience. The sidewalks are far too skinny to squeeze by others as it is. So when road crews installed a sign warning drivers of changes dues to the W Emerson Overpass Repair Project in such a way that it blocked part of the already-too-skinny…
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tagged: ballard, ballard bridge, haley woods, kiro, peddler brewing company
September 29, 2014

Study: Widening Ballard Bridge sidewalks possible, but it won’t be cheap (+ is there an easier way?)

When it comes to major infrastructure barriers to cycling in Seattle, there are a select few that really stand out from the rest, such as the north section of Rainier Ave, the 520 Bridge and the Ballard Bridge. There are plenty of other big barriers, but these are the egregiously-awful ones holding back a flood…
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tagged: ballard, ballard bridge, Burrard Bridge, lion’s gate bridge, reversible lanes, sdot, vancouver