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May19Thu5:30 pm Seattle Bike Train on Lake Washi...Seattle Bike Train on Lake Washi...May 19 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pmhttps://transittrekker.com/biketrain/FacebookTwitterRedditPocketEmail5:30 pm Seattle Redistricting: District ...Seattle Redistricting: District ...May 19 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pmSeattle Redistricting Commission and the Department of Neighborhoods:Attend a Public Forum Register in advance at https://seattle.surveymonkey.com/r/VXM2PGW. If you are unable to attend a public forum, you can also participate in the process by viewing draft maps and submitting public comment at https://www.seattle.gov/redistricting/how-to-participate. District 2 Public … Continue reading7:15 pm Point83 @ Westlake ParkPoint83 @ Westlake ParkMay 19 @ 7:15 pm
Meet up in the center of the park at 7ish. Leave at 730. Every Thursday from now until forever rain or shine. Bikes, beers, illegal firepits, nachos, bottlerockets, timetraveling, lollygagging, mechanicals, good times.FacebookTwitterRedditPocketEmailMay20Friall-day Happy Bike Everywhere Day!Happy Bike Everywhere Day!May 20 all-dayhttps://cascade.org/rides-and-events/bike-everywhere-month-2022FacebookTwitterRedditPocketEmail5:00 pm Ballard-Fremont Greenways social...Ballard-Fremont Greenways social...May 20 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pmIn honor of Bike Everywhere Day, Ballard-Fremont Greenways will be hosting a social ride to Sunset Hill Park.5:00pm Meet at the Dinosaur in Fremont 5:30pm Roll outRoute: West on Burke Gilman TrailNorth on 6th Ave NWWest on NW 58th … Continue reading
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Text message cover-up shows Mayor Durkan is unfit for office
Mayor Jenny Durkan, then-Police Chief Carmen Best and Seattle Fire Chief Harold Scoggins all deleted or otherwise lost their text messages from the midst of one of the most tumultuous times in Seattle history. The mayor has hidden the loss … Continue reading
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Tagged carmen best, Ethics and Elections Commission, harold scoggins, jenny durkan, michelle chen
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Mayor Durkan’s dead congestion pricing plan is another example of her poor leadership
As Mayor Jenny Durkan’s frustrating and damaging time in office gets slowly closer to ending, it’s important that Seattle understands the ways her leadership (or lack thereof) harmed our city and many of its genuine movements for change. Because we … Continue reading
Seattle continues to stagnate on preventing traffic deaths even as total collisions plummet
Preliminary data on traffic collisions from last year shows that the total number of collisions involving people on bikes in Seattle was down by more than 50% compared to the average of the three previous years. This follows the trend … Continue reading
The Climate Cavalry Is Us, Councilmember Pedersen
Last week, District 4 Councilmember Alex Pedersen’s office sent an email including highlights from his first year in office. It included a section titled “Transportation and Climate Change”. An excerpt: Seattle is not about to let up on its efforts … Continue reading
Seattleites Driving Fewer Miles Than Ever, City Report Suggests
The city of Seattle just released a new report on our citywide carbon footprint. The info in the report is slightly out-of-date, as it’s a snapshot of how we did in 2018, but is the most comprehensive picture we have … Continue reading
Yeah, there was no need to be worried about Seattle voting for transit
Transit is extremely popular in Seattle. More than 80 percent of voters approved Prop 1, which would expand the sales tax to fund bus transit service hours, infrastructure improvements and access programs in Seattle. And considering 9 in 10 registered … Continue reading
Seattle knew 5 years ago that a Rainier Ave safety project would save lives, but is just now starting work
Rainier Ave S has long held a terrible title: The most dangerous street in Seattle. It saw more crashes per mile than the city’s other deadly streets, including Lake City Way and Aurora, despite carrying far fewer trips. “During a … Continue reading
Seattle’s proposed scooter rules set riders up for failure
Banning electric scooters on sidewalks seems to make sense at first. Sidewalks are for walking, right? That seemed to be the guiding principle behind Seattle’s decision to mostly leave the existing ban on riding electric scooters on sidewalks in place … Continue reading
City will (finally) start accepting street closure permits for businesses
We have known for a while that the coronavirus doesn’t spread as easily outside as inside, yet so many Seattle businesses are obviously based inside storefronts. What if businesses could move more of their operations outside? Cities all over the … Continue reading
Effort to recall Mayor Durkan passes court hurdle, needs more than 55K Seattle voter signatures
Mayor Jenny Durkan has failed in her basic duty to protest the people of Seattle from a police force under her control. She has lost the confidence of the people, and continues to demonstrate that she is not the leader … Continue reading
Mayor delays more bike projects from her already-slashed and delayed bike plan
Mayor Jenny Durkan and SDOT have paused $58.3 million worth of projects as the department attempts to deal with the impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak on the municipal budget. The cuts represent about 8% of the department’s adopted budget with … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020 rebalancing budget, bicycle master plan, jenny durkan, jumpstart seattle, sdot, teresa mosqueda
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City Councilmembers show the leadership our city needs + Mayor Durkan should resign
EDITOR’S NOTE: Seattle Bike Blog supports the Defund Seattle Police effort initially led by a large group of community organizations and leaders, including No New Youth Jail, Decriminalize Seattle, Block the Bunker, Seattle Peoples Party, COVID-19 Mutual Aid, Trans Women … Continue reading
Mayor Durkan failed
EDITOR’S NOTE: Seattle Bike Blog supports the Defund Seattle Police effort being led by a large group of community organizations and leaders, including No New Youth Jail, Decriminalize Seattle, Block the Bunker, Seattle Peoples Party, COVID-19 Mutual Aid, Trans Women … Continue reading
Car driving is down 91% from pre-outbreak levels on the city’s new Stay Healthy Streets
It made national news last week when Seattle announced that the Stay Healthy Streets (“SHS”) program would be transitioning from an emergency program to a permanent program. For example, a CNN headline read: “Seattle to permanently close 20 miles of … Continue reading
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Tagged cascade bicycle club, jenny durkan, sdot, seattle neighborhood greenways, stay healthy streets
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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. … Continue reading
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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
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Mayor Durkan: ‘Eastlake is moving forward’
Mayor Jenny Durkan removed all doubt about what she thinks about Eastlake Ave bike lanes during a mid-day press event today. “Without prejudging what would come out of an EIS or what the lawyers would say, we need that bike … Continue reading
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Tagged cascade bicycle club, eastlake, jenny durkan, sam zimbabwe, sdot, seattle neighborhood greenways
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Arena’s plans for Denny Way and 2nd Ave move Seattle in the wrong direction
As part of the transportation plan for the new arena in Seattle Center, developers and the City of Seattle are currently planning to delete the north end of the 2nd Ave protected bike lane and steal crossing time from people … Continue reading
As traffic deaths and injuries increase, Mayor will reduce speed limits to 25, add red light and speed cameras, and give walk signals a head start
Mayor Jenny Durkan made her boldest safe streets stand yet when she unveiled a 25 mph speed limit sign on Rainier Ave S, the first of several thousand sign changes coming in the next year and a half. But that’s … Continue reading
Mayor Durkan’s 2020-21 budget would increase bike lane, Vision Zero, Northgate Bridge funds
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
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged 8th ave, cascade bicycle club, downtown, jenny durkan, seattle neighborhood greenways
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