Tag: i-5

March 27, 2018

Bike on I-5, the Aurora Bridge and the soon-to-be-closed waterfront Viaduct April 8

Cascade Bicycle Club’s Emerald City Ride 2018 won’t ever be repeated because part of the route will be on the slated-for-demolishion Alaskan Way Viaduct. The third annual Emerald City Ride sticks with the theme: Bike on freeways typically off-limits to biking. And 2018 is shaping up to be one of the best routes yet. Rather…
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tagged: alaskan way viaduct, aurora bridge, cascade bicycle club, emerald city ride 2018, events, i-5
March 9, 2017

Shoreline announces bold idea for a new trail next to light rail

The City of Shoreline has a great idea for taking advantage of Sound Transit construction to also revolutionize bike access in their city: A “Trail Along the Rail.” Much like the Interurban Trail is a premiere asset for the city’s SR 99 corridor — providing vital access to businesses, homes, parks and schools — the…
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tagged: i-5, shoreline, trail along the rail
March 8, 2017

The 2017 Emerald Bike Ride will make a big freeway loop on 520, I-90 and I-5

For the second annual Emerald Bike Ride, Cascade Bicycle Club is scaling up big time. The full route is longer, the start location is bigger and the rider limit has been set at a stunning 10,000 people. That’s 3,000 more people than the sold-out 2016 ride. If the 2017 event also sells out it would…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, emerald bike ride 2017, emerald city bike ride, i-5, i-90, sr 520
December 29, 2016

Convention Center expansion should help build major bike network crossroads

Much of the talk about public benefits from the planned Washington State Convention Center expansion has been focused on the very exciting idea of building a lid over more of I-5 connecting downtown to Capitol Hill and First Hill. The Lid I-5 campaign hopes to get the full cost of a technical feasibility study paid…
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tagged: capitol hill, downtown, first hill, i-5, lid i-5, pike/pine, WA State Convention Center
April 4, 2016

For a few hours, two Seattle freeways were bike-only (Photos)

For a few short hours just after sunrise Sunday, two major Seattle freeways were beautiful places filled with smiling people. There were no honking horns and no road rage even as a rush hour’s worth of people traveled some of the most traffic-clogged freeways in the nation. That is, of course, because the 7,000 people…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, emerald city bike ride, i-5, jay inslee, lynn peterson, sr 520
March 31, 2016

Cascade’s sold out Emerald City Ride takes to the freeways Sunday + Route Map

Cascade Bicycle Club’s first ever Emerald City Bike Ride takes to area freeways Sunday. The ride sold out all 7,000 spots, and I’m not surprised. People have wanted to bike across the 520 Bridge since it opened half a century ago. And while Bicycle Sunday was held on the I-5 Express Lanes decades ago, biking…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, emerald city bike ride, i-5, i-5 express trail, sr 520, tacoma wheelmen