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From our Bike Events Calendar
Jun23Wed6:00 pm Ballard-Fremont Greenways MeetingBallard-Fremont Greenways MeetingJun 23 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pmBallard-Fremont Greenways meets monthly on the 4th Wednesday of the month. Check Facebook for monthly meeting information: https://www.facebook.com/BFGreenways/FacebookTwitterRedditPocketEmailJun24Thu6:00 pm Beacon Hill Safe Streets Monthly... @ Beacon Hill LibraryBeacon Hill Safe Streets Monthly... @ Beacon Hill LibraryJun 24 @ 6:00 pm – 7:45 pmformerly Beacon B.I.K.E.S. FacebookTwitterRedditPocketEmailJun27Sunall-day Lake Union History Ride Redux @ Gas Works ParkLake Union History Ride Redux @ Gas Works ParkJun 27 all-day
This is a history ride from Gas Works Park clockwise around Lake Union with 12 stops. Ride is free, no-drop, 12.4 miles long, leisurely pace, and has a restroom/snack break around the halfway point. Ride is limited to 15 people, … Continue readingall-day Ride for Major Taylor @ White Center Bicycle PlaygroundRide for Major Taylor @ White Center Bicycle PlaygroundJun 27 all-day
With 63-mile and 26-mile options, the Ride for Major Taylor Project is a fundraiser: 80% of your registration fee goes directly to the Major Taylor Project, a year-round, youth leadership cycling program focused on introducing young adults from underserved communities … Continue readingJul3Sat9:00 am First Saturday Neighborhood Clea...First Saturday Neighborhood Clea...Jul 3 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pmEvery month volunteers gather to collect garbage and help beautify our neighborhood. On average, we collect about 15 bags of garbage per clean up, which means 1,000’s of small pieces of plastic that do not find their way into Puget … Continue reading
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9th Ave bike lanes carve out a real transportation option in South Lake Union
People using the Westlake Bikeway can now, finally, get to and through South Lake Union via a mostly uninterrupted route of bike lanes. It’s not the most direct route, and the connection into downtown is still incomplete. But for an … Continue reading
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Tagged 9th ave n, dexter, roy, sdot, south lake union, tim fliss, westlake cycle track
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Alert: Dexter will be closed near Mercer all day Saturday and weekday nights
If you plan on biking on Dexter Saturday, give yourself some extra time and be ready for a detour. Workers will completely close Dexter between Aloha and Mercer starting 6 a.m. Saturday and lasting until 6 a.m. Sunday. The street … Continue reading
Dexter will be closed overnight this week, will reopen with better bike lanes
Dexter Ave will be closed overnight Monday and Tuesday between Denny and Mercer so crews can repaint the street with a new complete streets design that includes wide parking-protected bike lanes and a center turn lane. Construction work is not … Continue reading
Dexter closed Wednesday night, will reopen in morning with different detour
It’s probably best to just avoid the city center’s busiest bike street tonight. Both the Mercer and Alaskan Way Viaduct Projects will be closing parts of Dexter Ave in South Lake Union starting 7 p.m. Wednesday evening and ending 6 a.m. … Continue reading
One of too many
This story is a bit longer than a typical post on this site. Brandon reached out to me after Sher Kung died and said he wanted people to know what life is like for all those people who are critically … Continue reading
Dexter protected bike lane plans include shared turn lanes, bus stops
When the state finally finishes its Hwy 99 utility work that has torn up half of Dexter Ave near Harrison Street in recent months, they will put the road back together and repaint it. But instead of returning the street … Continue reading
City finally planning road safety project on Dexter between Denny and Mercer
Dexter Ave may never go back to being the dangerous, super wide street it was before major construction began a few months ago between Mercer and Denny in South Lake Union. The city is planning a road safety redesign for … Continue reading
City bans dangerous right turns across Dexter bike lane at Mercer
Ever since Broad Street closed for good and Mercer changed from one-way to two-way, people biking southbound on Dexter Ave have faced a new danger: Cars making right turns in front of them to access westbound Mercer. But the city … Continue reading
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Tagged brock howell, cascade bicycle club, construction, dexter, mercer mess, mercer west, sdot
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Northbound bike lane on Dexter will be closed 8 days starting Monday
Just in from WSDOT: The state will close the northbound bike lane on Dexter at Harrison Street for eight days starting Monday morning. The crunch is so the state can relocate utilities for the Highway 99 tunnel (that may or … Continue reading
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Tagged construction, deep bore tunnel, dexter, highway 99 north portal, wsdot
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Work on Hwy 99 tunnel ramps will close Dexter bike lanes + Is this a chance to extend the redesign?
The state is set to start utility relocation work to prepare the area between South Lake Union and Lower Queen Anne for the Highway 99 tunnel’s new on and off ramps. That means crews need to dig up parts of … Continue reading
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Tagged aurora, construction, deep bore tunnel, dexter, highway 99 north portal, laura newborn, lower queen anne, south lake union, wsdot
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Times column: McGinn was right, road diets work. Now let’s fix Dexter
The Seattle Times’ Jonathan Martin said in a column today that the city’s low-budget street safety projects (AKA road diets) have worked really well. He suggests that the city should do more of them, including a project to address serious … Continue reading
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Tagged dexter, jonathan martin, road diets, seattle times, seattle times editorial board
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City will study improvements to notorious section of Dexter between Denny and Mercer
Dexter Ave is among the busiest bike streets in the city. Unfortunately, it has also been the scene of far too many collisions, including a very serious one July 25 and, of course, the devastating collision that took the life … Continue reading
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Tagged brandon blake, complete streets, dexter, mike wang, sdot, streetmix
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Recovery fund started for man seriously injured biking home on Dexter
Brandon Blake was biking home on Dexter Ave Thursday when a person driving an SUV made a left turn in front of him at Harrison St. Unable to stop in time, he collided with the passenger door and window of … Continue reading
Just 10 days after Dexter/Nickerson hit-and-run, city installs permanent curb to make intersection safer
My head is still spinning by how fast the city and SDOT responded to this dangerous right turn lane at Dexter and Nickerson. Friend and Seattle Bike Blog reader Maile Martinez got in touch last week with the story of … Continue reading
KOMO Video: Woman visiting her sister victim of hit and run at Dexter/Nickerson – UPDATED
Jake Vanderplas’ story of a road rage hit and run in West Seattle we published yesterday drudged up a lot of scary stories from readers, who left their tales in the comments. One of those comments was from a friend … Continue reading
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Tagged alana martinez, dexter, hit and run, injuries, maile martinez, nickerson
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Woman says she fended off attacker while biking to work on Dexter
A woman emailed Seattle Bike Blog Tuesday to report a scary attack she said happened while she was biking northbound on Dexter around 6:45 6:10 a.m. She said she was headed downhill in the bike lane when a man stepped … Continue reading
Spotted on Dexter: What do you think of these bike racks with maps?
Madi with Family Ride spotted this bike rack at the under-construction Union apartment building at Dexter and Aloha (yes, the one that sometimes closes the bike lane or puts fences in it). I can’t think of another public bike map … Continue reading
Cascade: Man left unconscious after Dexter hit and run
Someone driving Tuesday morning struck Jerry Scott near Dexter and Denny, then fled the scene, Cascade Bicycle Club reports. The person responsible left Scott, who has biked the route to work for many years, unconscious on the side of the … Continue reading
Police arrest suspect in hit-and-run that killed Mike Wang last summer – UPDATED
Police say they have arrested the person they suspect struck and killed Mike Wang on Dexter Ave Last year. Details will be announced at an 11 a.m. press conference. UPDATE: The suspect is Erlin Garcia Reyes, 28, from Normandy Park. … Continue reading
Wrench Bicycle Workshop now open on Dexter Ave
Dexter Ave now has a bike shop. The city’s top bike commute route got a fantastic redesign this year, and now a repair-focused shop has moved in. Wrench Bicycle Workshop opened this month at 1305 Dexter Ave. N. The shop … Continue reading
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Tagged bike shops, buck hazard, dexter, greg mackenzie, south lake union, wrench bicycle workshop
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