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Mayor Durkan’s 2020-21 budget would increase bike lane, Vision Zero, Northgate Bridge funds

Posted on September 24, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

Replying largely on revenue from selling a large parcel of land made available by the massive Mercer Street project, Mayor Jenny Durkan’s proposed 2020-21 budget includes millions more for protected bike lanes, neighborhood greenways and other Vision Zero projects. These … Continue reading →

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

Posted on August 14, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

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 … Continue reading →

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Council bills say major paving projects ‘shall’ build planned bike lanes, push for downtown and south end bike lanes + Support these bills Friday

Posted on August 8, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

Seattle already has a complete streets ordinance that says SDOT needs to consider the needs of all road users when making major road investments. The city also has a Bicycle Master Plan that notes where the highest-priority bike connections are. … Continue reading →

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TRU’s Wilson: Four steps ‘to spark Seattle’s transportation revolution’

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

Katie Wilson of the Transit Riders Union has penned a two–part op-ed for Crosscut, and of course they are both must-reads. Seattle’s climate emissions are increasing. And transportation is our biggest offender. We need a lot more people to drive … Continue reading →

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Seattle’s latest bike plan takes one step forward, one step back and continues neglecting South Seattle

Posted on June 14, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

SDOT and Mayor Jenny Durkan yesterday released the city’s first “annual” short-term bike plan in 26 months. That the plan itself was delayed well over a year is a good symbol for how SDOT and Mayor have been treating bicycle … Continue reading →

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Days after SDOT acknowledged safety concerns on new 35th Ave NE, a collision critically injured someone on a motorcycle

Posted on June 11, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

Someone driving a pickup truck collided with someone on a motorcycle at the intersection of 35th Ave NE and NE 75th Street Monday evening. The person on the motorcycle was critically injured and was rushed to the hospital in life-threatening … Continue reading →

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With the paint barely dry on bike-lane-free 35th Ave NE, person driving strikes and injures someone on a bike

Posted on May 17, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

Just hours after a video of dangerous conditions for people biking on the new 35th Ave NE gained a lot of traction on social media, someone driving struck and injured a person biking on the street near the intersection with … Continue reading →

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‘Extreme disappointment’: Bike Advisory Board letter seeks big improvements to Mayor’s bike plan

Posted on May 14, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

The same week the Move Seattle Levy Oversight Committee wrote a letter to Mayor Jenny Durkan, the City Council and SDOT calling foul on the mayor’s “disproportionately large” bike plan cuts, the volunteer Seattle Bicycle Advisory Board penned a similar … Continue reading →

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Oversight Committee raises flag on mayor’s ‘disproportionately large’ bike plan cuts

Posted on May 13, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

The committee tasked with watchdogging the city’s delivery of the $930 million voters approved through the 2015 Move Seattle levy has written a strong letter of concern about the lack of bicycle network progress and SDOT’s big cuts to the … Continue reading →

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West Seattle community group responds to bike plan cuts + Cascade, SNG outline their priorities

Posted on April 22, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

Neighborhoods all over Seattle have been hit hard by Mayor Jenny Durkan’s proposed bike plan cuts. And as is depressingly typical, West Seattle got hit especially hard. They already had lackluster improvements in the previous version of the bike plan, … Continue reading →

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E Union Street is a chance for SDOT and the mayor to prove they care about connecting bike routes

Posted on April 17, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

Seattle is once again set to choose the convenience of car driving over the safety of people walking and biking and our city’s Vision Zero, Climate Action Plan and Bicycle Master Plan goals. This time, it’s on E Union Street … Continue reading →

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Community organizes to celebrate NE 65th St bike lanes, shows what’s possible when city builds the bike plan

Posted on April 8, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

Unlike the $4.4 million advertising budget and public fanfare celebrating the new SR 99 car tunnel, no official celebration or encouragement campaign was planned for a major new set of protected bike lanes on NE 65th Street. So excited community … Continue reading →

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Rashomon in Wedgwood: SDOT Director and Deputy Mayor grilled during Bike Board meeting

Posted on April 4, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

SDOT Director Sam Zimbabwe and Deputy Mayor Shefali Ranganathan sat down for a long talk with the Seattle Bicycle Advisory Board Wednesday to have a difficult and at times uncomfortable conversation about Mayor Jenny Durkan’s commitment to building the city’s … Continue reading →

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SDOT and Mayor Durkan release more transparent, less visionary bike plan

Posted on April 2, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

26 miles of bike facilities are gone completely, and another 27 are at risk. That’s the harsh reality of the latest iteration of the Bicycle Master Plan Implementation Plan (the “Bike Plan Plan”). The result is what could be a … Continue reading →

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How did Mayor Durkan get the 35th Ave NE decision so wrong? + Councilmembers respond

Posted on March 28, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

Mayor Jenny Durkan’s decision this week to scrap planned, designed and contracted bike lanes on 35th Ave NE has drawn a major backlash as people are dismayed to hear that Seattle’s mayor is abandoning the Bicycle Master Plan in order … Continue reading →

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Mayor Durkan chooses 35th Ave NE car convenience over street safety and the fight against climate change

Posted on March 26, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

Mayor Jenny Durkan has officially abandoned the Bicycle Master Plan, which was approved unanimously by the City Council and funded through a vote of the people. The Mayor has until recently only delayed Bike Master Plan projects, like essentially all … Continue reading →

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

Posted on March 19, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

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 … Continue reading →

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We have just proven that Seattle doesn’t need a highway tunnel or massive waterfront road

Posted on January 16, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

So it turns out that when people across the Seattle region plan ahead and change their transportation habits, we can prove to ourselves that we don’t need SR 99 to go through downtown after all. After months of news stories … Continue reading →

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Mayor nominates Sam Zimbabwe to be next SDOT Director

Posted on December 19, 2018 by Tom Fucoloro

Mayor Jenny Durkan has nominated Washington DC’s Sam Zimbabwe to be the next Director of SDOT, emphasizing his experience in project delivery and multimodal urban planning during a Tuesday press conference. If the City Council confirms him quickly, Zimbabwe could … Continue reading →

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Mayor’s last-minute ousting of Bike Advisory Board Chair was an awful way to treat a volunteer

Posted on December 12, 2018 by Tom Fucoloro

Just hours before the November meeting of the Seattle Bicycle Advisory Board, Co-Chair Casey Gifford received a call from the Mayor’s Office informing her she was headed to her last meeting on the volunteer board. The decision stunned Board members … Continue reading →

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