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From our Bike Events Calendar
Jul17Wed6:00 pm Ballard Greenways RideBallard Greenways RideJul 17 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pmJoin us for the Ballard-Fremont Summer Greenway Ride! Rendezvous Time: 6:00 pm at Hale’s Ales Ride Start: 6:15 pm Distance: 10.5 miles Route: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/30392421 This ride is a chance to follow the proposed 6th Ave greenway and also survey recently … Continue reading6:00 pm GET SPOKED! WOMXN, TRANS, GENDER... @ Bike Works WarehouseGET SPOKED! WOMXN, TRANS, GENDER... @ Bike Works WarehouseJul 17 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Every THIRD Wednesday of the month from 6 – 9 PM, we’re hosting a Volunteer Repair Party (VRP)/Open Shop specifically for folks who identify as women, trans, or gender non-binary to come together in an inclusive space to repair bikes … Continue readingJul18Thu4:00 pm Queen Anne Greenways Playstreet @ Queen Anne Community CenterQueen Anne Greenways Playstreet @ Queen Anne Community CenterJul 18 @ 4:00 pm – Jul 19 @ 7:00 pm
Queen Anne Greenways (QAG), a community organization that advocates for safe and healthy streets, is putting on their annual Playstreets event on Thursday, July 18 on 1st Ave W between Crockett St & Howe St.. It starts at 4pm. QAG … Continue reading4:00 pm Queen Anne Greenways Summer Play...Queen Anne Greenways Summer Play...Jul 18 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pmJoin us for the annual Play Street in the heart of Upper Queen Anne. Enjoy live music, local artists, a kids climbing wall and lots of games. Located next to the farmers market, it’s the perfect summer evening for adults … Continue reading6:30 pm Bike Works Volunteer Repair Party @ Bike Works ClassroomsBike Works Volunteer Repair Party @ Bike Works ClassroomsJul 18 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pmDetails: Volunteer Repair Parties (VRP) are drop-in, weekly bike repair parties for adults (age 18 and up). You do not need to be a skilled bike mechanic to help out. This is how most volunteers with Bike Works get their … Continue reading Be a Seattle Bike Blog Supporter!
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Tag Archives: dongho chang
People walk across street at crosswalk
There were zero pedestrians counted at this Ballard intersection on a Tuesday in January. It was built late last year as part of bus enhancement project. We counted again on Tuesday in January and usage meets the MUTCD threshold for … Continue reading
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Tagged angie schmitt, dongho chang, sdot, streetsblog, traffic engineering
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Spring Street bike lane is a big improvement, but it ends just short of First Hill
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
New 2nd Ave traffic signals clear up confusion
When the city finally upgraded the old skinny paint-only door zone bike lane on 2nd Ave in 2014, it was an incredible increase in biking comfort downtown. But almost immediately after opening one thing became clear: The array of signals … Continue reading
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Tagged 2nd ave, dongho chang, protected bike lanes, protected intersections, sdot
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City and contractor rethinking sudden 2nd Ave bike lane closure
The moment fences went up blocking the 2nd Ave protected bike lane just south of Pike Street, I started getting tweets and emails from baffled people who, rather than having a protected bike lane were detoured mid-block into the general … Continue reading
Rainier is the city’s most dangerous neighborhood street. But it could be the best.
Rainier Avenue will be safer by the end of the year. Every option the city presented (PDF) at a public meeting Thursday evening in Columbia City included a significant redesign of the notoriously dangerous street. And the city is not … Continue reading
Rainier Ave safety project kicks off, two meetings this week
Rainier Ave has been the scene of far more than its share of death and injury, serving both as the main commercial drag through Rainier Valley and one of the city’s most dangerous streets. There were 1,243 collisions, 630 injuries … Continue reading
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Tagged columbia city, dongho chang, rainier ave, rainier beach, rainier valley, sdot
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After 2 collisions at same 2nd Ave parking garage, city makes changes
After the second person in just one week was injured by a person turning across the 2nd Ave protected bike lane into a parking garage between Pike and Union, the city has made changes to improve visibility. Most early efforts … Continue reading
Police find Tahoe involved in hit and run of 7-year-old + City announces safety project on nearby Rainier Ave
Seattle Police announced Friday that they have found and impounded the red Chevy Tahoe they believe struck and critically injured a seven-year-old girl at MLK and Genesee Tuesday. Now they are on the search to find the person behind the … Continue reading
Business owner sends photos of people crashing on Missing Link, city (finally) finishes temporary bikeway
After five months in a state of partial completion, the city made substantial progress toward completing the temporary Burke-Gilman Missing Link improvements between Shilshole and Fred Meyer Sunday. The two-way bikeway on NW 45th Street is an attempt to increase … Continue reading
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Tagged ballard, burke-gilman trail, dongho chang, michael marian, missing link, sdot
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City installs two blocks of protected bike lanes in U District
The city is nearly finished with work on two blocks of protected bike lanes on NE 40th Street in the U District. As we reported last week, the section is intended to serve both as a permanent addition to the … Continue reading
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Tagged dongho chang, NE 40th Street, protected bike lanes, u district, uw
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Walk signals are shorter in Rainier Valley, but the city will improve them this year
If you live in the Rainier Valley, many traffic signals in your neighborhood force you to walk faster than if you live in Ballard. Sometimes, you have to walk twice as fast to get across the street before traffic gets … Continue reading
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Tagged dongho chang, public health, rainier ave, rainier valley, sdot, seattle neighborhood greenways, seattle times, uw
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Feds make it easier to install traffic signals for bikes
The Federal Highway Administration has removed a layer of red tape that should make it much easier and cheaper for states, counties and cities to install bicycle-specific traffic signals. The memo posted below goes into rather dense detail about the … Continue reading
New York guerrilla bike lane painters hope city takes cue from Seattle
The Reasonably Polite Seattleites just wanted to push the city to make some bike lanes safer. I doubt they imagined their small, “polite” statement about road safety would be used by New York City residents to pressure their leaders to … Continue reading
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Tagged atlantic cities, dongho chang, new york, reasonably polite seattleites, right of way
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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
SDOT makes guerrilla-installed protected bike lane permanent
Remember when an anonymous bike safety group calling themselves “Reasonably Polite Seattleites” installed a series of plastic pylons on Cherry Street to demonstrate how easy it would be for the city to turn a regular bike lane into a protected … Continue reading
Guerrilla road safety group ‘politely’ installs illegal bike lane protectors on Cherry Street
An extremely polite group of anonymous guerrilla road safety activists armed with $350 worth of reflective plastic pylons turned the painted Cherry Street bike lane under I-5 into a protected bike lane Monday morning. The group—calling themselves the Reasonably Polite … Continue reading
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Tagged cherry st, dongho chang, protected bike lanes, reasonably polite seattleites, sdot
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Neighborhood Greenways TV: Seattle Channel + Panel discussion with SDOT leaders
Seattle Channel’s City Stream featured the city’s push for family-friendly bike routes on a recent episode. You may even catch a glimpse of yours truly…
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Tagged anne vernez moudon, dongho chang, neighborhood greenways, peter hahn, videos
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Neighborhood Greenways Update: SDOT leaders will talk at Phinney meeting
A crew of city officials and neighborhood greenway organizers went to a walk and bike ride around Ballard Sunday, hitting some of the planned and proposed neighborhood greenway options in the area. Several folks from the city — including new … Continue reading
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Tagged dongho chang, neighborhood greenways, phinney ridge, sally bagshaw, sdot, tom rasmussen
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New SDOT Traffic Engineer is excited about bike facilities
Dongho Chang said his new job as Seattle’s City Traffic Engineer is a “dream job,” and he’s excited about streets that help people biking and walking. “I want to build a community where people can get access to what they … Continue reading