Tag: commute seattle
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Only 5% of new downtown Seattle commute trips are made by driving alone, but biking is flat
Downtown Seattle has added 45,000 jobs since 2010. During the same time, only 2,255 new drive-alone trips have been added to downtown streets, according to a new Commute Seattle survey. The other 95 percent of commute trips were absorbed by transit, walking, biking, telecommuting and shared car trips. The survey, released every two years, suggests…
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Ride your bike, support bike-friendly businesses & donate toys Saturday
Ride your bike. Shop at bike-friendly businesses. Support survivors of domestic violence. Join Commute Seattle and Cascade Bicycle Club Saturday for the Seattle Bike Friendly Business Network‘s first Holiday Bike Friendly Ride. Meet up 2 p.m. at Métier (11th and Union) for a group ride to Red Balloon. There you can buy toys that the…
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Get a free doughnut and coffee for biking Thursday morning
It’s time for Commute Seattle’s annual Light Up your Ride event. Get a free doughnut, cup of coffee and other likely reflective and blinky swag tomorrow morning (Thursday). All you have to do is ride a bike. Easy! Commute Seattle will be at the south end of the new Westlake Bikeway in Lake Union Park…
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Bikes & Bagels is Friday + A look at more Bike Month events ahead
Bike to McGraw Square tomorrow (Friday) morning between 7 and 9 a.m., and you’ll get free coffee, a bagel and probably some swag. Commute Seattle hosts the event every year, though I feel like we got fried chicken one year (or was that a dream?). Anyway, here are more details from Commute Seattle: In celebration…
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2nd Ave bike counter unveiling kicks off Bike Month + Remembering Lance David
There’s now a humble counter ticking away everyone who bikes up or down 2nd Ave through the heart of downtown Seattle. Commute Seattle’s Jessica Szelag unveiled the display this morning, which is a gift to the city on a beautiful first weekday morning commute of Bike Month. Even with construction at 2nd and Pike blocking…
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After weeks of tough closures, 2nd Ave bike lane is now permanent + Gets bike counter Monday
After weeks of tough construction closures, the 2nd Ave bike lane — downtown’s sole sliver of low-stress bike lane — has mostly reopened. And with new raised driveways, planter boxes and traffic signals, the pilot project created in 2014 is officially here to stay. There is still more signal work to complete, but most the…
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