Tag: capitol hill

October 16, 2018

Community leads effort to build bike lanes on Pike/Pine, groups host workshop Oct 25

A coalition of community groups on Capitol Hill is hosting a design workshop October 25 to help craft a vision for the protected bike lanes on Pike and/or Pine Streets that were funded through the convention center expansion community benefits package. The City Council passed a resolution in July calling on SDOT to design and build…
(read more…)

tagged: capitol hill, capitol hill housing, central seattle greenways, pike/pine, seattle neighborhood greenways
October 13, 2017

What can we learn from this scary close call video?

OK, Seattle, we need to talk about this close call video going around. David Seater, who is the Chair of Seattle’s volunteer Pedestrian Advisory Board, was biking uphill on Pine Street on Capitol Hill earlier this week when someone driving a pickup chose to lay on the horn and make a purposeful, extremely close pass.…
(read more…)

tagged: capitol hill, david seater, pine, spd
March 28, 2017

Capitol Hill groups come together to host hyperlocal Transportation Action Day

Several Capitol Hill community groups are working together to host a free training for anyone who wants to learn how to advocate and organize for safer streets Sunday. Afterwards, attendees will immediately put their new knowledge into action by heading out to businesses in the neighborhood to help gather support for safer streets and connected bike…
(read more…)

tagged: alex brennan, capitol hill, capitol hill eco district, capitol hill renters initiative, capitol hill seattle, cascade bicycle club, marley blonsky, seattle neighborhood greenways
February 24, 2017

Public Bikes will close Pine St shop

When Public Bikes opened at Summit and Pine in April 2015, we noted that the shop was “well-positioned to take advantage of Capitol Hill’s bike shop desert.” Velo Bike Shop had recently moved to the Denny Triangle area after decades on the Hill, and one of the city’s densest and bikiest neighborhoods was left without…
(read more…)

tagged: 20/20 cycle, branford bike, capitol hill, electric lady, métier racing and coffee, peloton, public bikes, rapha
February 16, 2017

How One Center City can finally build the vital Pike/Pine bike connection

Pike/Pine is one of the most needed and promising connections in the entire Seattle bike network. And the multi-agency One Center City partnership is looking to make major near-term changes along the corridor between Pike Place Market and Broadway that include protected bike lanes. We already wrote about the One Center City ideas for north-south…
(read more…)

tagged: capitol hill, downtown, one center city, pike/pine
January 10, 2017

Don’t stop the Broadway streetcar and bikeway now

Today, the First Hill Streetcar and Broadway Bikeway end unceremoniously at Denny Way just before reaching the North Broadway business district. People biking are forced to choose between merging into mixed traffic on the busy commercial street, trying to navigate using side streets with poor business access and poor crossings at busy streets like John/Olive,…
(read more…)

tagged: broadway, broadway bikeway, broadway streetcar extension, capitol hill, capitol hill seattle, first hill streetcar