Tag Archives: basic bike network

Watch: Mayor Durkan celebrates downtown bike lanes, says more to come

Posted on February 4, 2020 by Tom Fucoloro

(Video transcript) Mayor Jenny Durkan has completely changed her tune about bike lanes since her first year in office. Well, that’s not entirely accurate because in her first year in office, she said very little about bike lanes at all. … Continue reading →

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Will Mayor Durkan meet the City Council’s downtown bike lane 2019 deadline? – UPDATED

Posted on March 19, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

SDOT will update the City Council Transportation and Sustainability Committee today on the progress (or lackthereof) on the downtown Basic Bike Network. The City Council passed a resolution last summer calling on SDOT and Mayor Jenny Durkan to complete key … Continue reading →

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Seattle Neighborhood Greenways: Disappointing bike commute data is ‘neither surprising nor inevitable’

Posted on September 27, 2018 by Gordon Padelford

Editor’s Note: Seattle Bike Blog reported yesterday on newly-released 2017 American Communities Survey data that estimates that the number of people biking to work is declining in Seattle. In response, the folks at Seattle Neighborhood Greenways wrote this guest post looking … Continue reading →

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CM Mosqueda delivers must-watch speech as Council approves downtown bike lane resolution

Posted on July 31, 2018 by Tom Fucoloro

The Seattle City Council unanimously approved a resolution Monday calling on SDOT to complete a connected bike network downtown by the end of 2019. As we reported previously, the network includes sections of 8th Ave, 9th Ave N, Pike and/or Pine … Continue reading →

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Help push to get the downtown bike network back on track in 2019

Posted on July 16, 2018 by Tom Fucoloro

The downtown bike network has been significantly delayed so far under Mayor Jenny Durkan’s administration, but there is hope to turn things around and get major pieces of the network constructed in 2019. Seattle Neighborhood Greenways and Cascade Bicycle Club … Continue reading →

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Biking on 2nd Ave downtown is up 37% as bike share and bike lanes expand

Posted on June 14, 2018 by Tom Fucoloro

The number of people biking on 2nd Ave in downtown Seattle is up an average of 19 percent year-over-year since the July 2017 launch of private bike share services. And the trend appears to have accelerated as SDOT opened a … Continue reading →

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Seattle Neighborhood Greenways: Save the Basic Bike Network

Posted on May 11, 2018 by Tom Fucoloro

EDITOR’S NOTE: With Bike Everywhere Day a week away, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways has some ideas for how you can get engaged to help get the downtown Basic Bike Network back on track. If nothing else, scroll to the bottom to … Continue reading →

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Don’t delay the downtown bike network

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Tom Fucoloro

Downtown Seattle is facing a massive transportation challenge when buses are kicked out the transit tunnel in 2019. That is not long from now, and the City of Seattle and our region’s transportation agencies need to be taking action right … Continue reading →

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Construction set to begin on vital downtown stretch of 7th Ave bike lane

Posted on December 29, 2017 by Tom Fucoloro

Construction is set to begin next week to finally connect the well-used 7th Ave bike lane to the downtown core. When we last wrote about the planned 7th Ave southbound protected bike lane, we noted that it would end just … Continue reading →

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New Pike/Pine bike lanes give a taste of their potential, but have been cut too short

Posted on October 2, 2017 by Tom Fucoloro

For four glorious blocks between 2nd and 6th Avenues, Seattle’s new bike lane on Pike Street is a strong demonstration of how a connected network of bike lanes would dramatically increase the comfort and appeal of biking downtown. You can … Continue reading →

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Protected bike lanes coming to Pike/Pine a big improvement, but fall just short

Posted on August 30, 2017 by Tom Fucoloro

Pike and Pine Streets downtown are among the biggest missing bike connections downtown, and the city wants to take action to make them safer and more comfortable by the end of the year. Like with 2nd Ave in 2014, SDOT … Continue reading →

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Spring Street bike lane is a big improvement, but it ends just short of First Hill

Posted on May 31, 2017 by Tom Fucoloro

Downtown just got a new bike lane on Spring Street. It’s not the kind of bike route addition that’s going to start any biking revolutions, but it’s a major improvement over what was there before. And with just a few … Continue reading →

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Seattle’s top bike commuting workplaces are all within 5 blocks of a protected bike lane or trail

Posted on May 11, 2017 by Tom Fucoloro

New analysis from Commute Seattle found that the city’s large workplaces (100+ employees) with the highest bike commute rates all are within five blocks of a protected bike lane or trail and offer secure bike parking. Even more telling: The … Continue reading →

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The One Center City plan includes some bold ideas, but fails to prioritize safety

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Tom Fucoloro

The One Center City partnership released a set of “near-term strategies” for a major redesign of downtown streets Thursday that would increase bus capacity, could increase car capacity, and neither commits to building a connected network of safe bike lanes … Continue reading →

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