Tag: downtown

March 23, 2020

Bikes no longer banned on light rail downtown as Connect 2020 work ends, but service is reduced due to COVID-19

Well, what should have been a happy day for transit hardly feels worth celebrating amid the pandemic. Work to connect the existing Sound Transit Link light rail tracks to the under-construction East Link tracks has wrapped up, and the downtown light rail stations are fully functional again. No more transferring at Pioneer Square Station and…
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tagged: connect 2020, downtown, sound transit
March 16, 2020

Sound Transit didn’t finish work as planned, so reduced downtown light rail and bike ban still in effect

You know, in an alternate timeline this would be a really big story. Sound Transit was not able to complete all the work needed to fully reopen downtown light rail service as was planned, so Connect 2020 continues. That means train service will remain reduced downtown and riders will still need to change trains at…
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tagged: connect 2020, downtown, sound transit
February 4, 2020

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

(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. Projects were quietly delayed, scaled back or, in the case of 35th Ave NE, cut…
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tagged: 5th ave, 8th ave, 9th ave, basic bike network, bell street, center city bike network, clara cantor, downtown, jenny durkan, Main St, south lake union, vicky clarke
October 2, 2019

Crews are currently building Seattle’s most important new bike connection in years

It may be short, but don’t let that fool you. The protected bike lanes currently under construction on a few blocks of S Main St and 5th Ave S between the International District and the 2nd Ave bike lane should easily be the most important improvements to bike access Seattle has completed since, well, 2nd…
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tagged: 5th ave, downtown, international district, king st, Main St, sdot
August 14, 2019

An olive branch? Mayor Durkan celebrates downtown bike lanes, acknowledges delays

Seeing Queen Anne Greenways’ Mark Ostrow give Mayor Jenny Durkan a high five from his bicycle is the image that sticks in my head from Wednesday’s press event celebrating the opening of the 8th Ave bike lane downtown (Crosscut’s Josh Cohen captured the moment on video). The news itself was not a big surprise today.…
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tagged: 8th ave, cascade bicycle club, downtown, jenny durkan, seattle neighborhood greenways
March 19, 2019

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

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 sections of the downtown bike network by the end of 2019, including Pike/Pine, 8th and…
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tagged: basic bike network, city council, downtown, jenny durkan, transportation committee