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From our Bike Events Calendar
Jan30Mon5:30 pm Downtown Greenways monthly meetingDowntown Greenways monthly meetingJan 30 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pmLast Monday of the month. Join us! https://seattlegreenways.org/downtowngreenwaysJan31Tue4:00 pm SDOT: Seattle Transportation Pla...SDOT: Seattle Transportation Pla...Jan 31 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pmWe’re excited to announce that we will be hosting two Seattle Transportation Plan Open Houses, one on Saturday, January 28 and one on Tuesday, January 31! At these Open Houses, we will share our "second draft" transportation network maps. These have been … Continue readingFeb1Wed6:00 pm Seattle Bicycle Advisory Board M...Seattle Bicycle Advisory Board M...Feb 1 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pmMonthly agendas can be found at: http://www.seattle.gov/seattle-bicycle-advisory-board/meetings/meeting-agendas The Seattle Bicycle Advisory Board (SBAB) advises the Mayor, City Council, and City Departments and Divisions on projects, policies, and programs that improve and/or affect bicycling conditions in Seattle. Responsibilities SBAB’s responsibilities include: … Continue readingFeb2Thu7:15 pm Point83 @ Westlake ParkPoint83 @ Westlake ParkFeb 2 @ 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.Feb4Sat9:00 am First Saturday Neighborhood Clea...First Saturday Neighborhood Clea...Feb 4 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pmEvery month volunteers gather to collect garbage and help beautify our neighborhood. On average, we collect about 15 bags of garbage per clean up, which means 1,000’s of small pieces of plastic that do not find their way into Puget … Continue reading
Tag Archives: mercer
Photo: Finally, an improvement to 9th Ave near Mercer
I noticed an improvement to 9th Ave this morning. I will admit that I was hoping for more, such as some physical bike lane protection or implementation of this $0 fix to help improve crosswalk and bike lane safety and … Continue reading
Watch: A $0 fix for the notorious 9th and Mercer intersection
Every day during busy travel times, people turning left from southbound 9th Avenue N block the bike lane and crosswalk across Mercer Street. This happens every signal cycle, forcing people to try to find a path through the mess of … Continue reading
City extends 9th Ave protected bike lanes + How can the city fix the Mercer crossing?
We are two blocks closer to a complete connection between downtown and the Westlake Bikeway. SDOT installed Phase II of their three-phase rollout of protected bike lanes on 9th Ave N in South Lake Union this week. The bike lanes … Continue reading
5th Ave has a new protected bike lane … for one block
The city recently completed and opened a one-block section of protected bike lane on 5th Ave just south of Mercer. Like the Mercer bike lane, the lane is glorious where it exists. It’s bright green and separated from the street, … Continue reading
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Tagged 5th ave, mercer, mercer mess, seattle center, seattle public schools
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Mercer Street: King of the Stroad
As we reported yesterday, the Great Bike Route Wall of Uptown/Lower Queen Anne has finally cracked with the opening of the new protected bikeway on Mercer Street under Aurora. But the bike lanes are just a small part of a … Continue reading
Mercer bike lanes open, the Bike Route Wall of Uptown finally cracks
For the first time in a generation or more, the bicycle-repelling wall of dangerous or uncrossable streets surrounding Uptown and Seattle Center has sprung a leak. The brand new, very green bike lanes on Mercer Street passing under Aurora Ave … Continue reading
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Tagged lower queen anne, mercer, mercer mess, protected bike lanes, seattle center, south lake union, uptown
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Dexter closed Wednesday night, will reopen in morning with different detour
It’s probably best to just avoid the city center’s busiest bike street tonight. Both the Mercer and Alaskan Way Viaduct Projects will be closing parts of Dexter Ave in South Lake Union starting 7 p.m. Wednesday evening and ending 6 a.m. … Continue reading
Mercer walk/bike path switching to south side starting Thursday
The biking and walking shared pathway on Mercer Street under Aurora is switching sides Thursday as construction on the Mercer West project continues. Someday (fall 2015), there will finally be a separated and protected space for people to cross Aurora … Continue reading
Temporary Mercer walk/bike path under Aurora finally connects Dexter to Lower Queen Anne
After decades of being isolated from the city’s bicycle network, Lower Queen Anne is on the verge of a bike revolution. And a new temporary walk/bike path on Mercer under Aurora gives a preview of what it will be like … Continue reading
What do bikers want from the Mercer West project?
Clearly, the Mercer West project is a pretty long way off (with construction scheduled to start in 2012), and there are several variables still undecided (like that tunnel thing) that could change this project. And, sure, almost all of this … Continue reading
