Tag: protected bike lanes

September 3, 2015

Dearborn bike lane improvements will connect downtown to I-90 Trail, SE Seattle bike routes – UPDATED

Dearborn Street is both flat and useful. So even though it is not packed with destinations itself and though it serves the motor vehicle network mostly as a way to access I-5 and haul freight, it is also a highly desireable bike route. It connects downtown neighborhoods to bike routes in central and southeast Seattle,…
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tagged: dearborn st, international district, protected bike lanes, sdot
July 24, 2015

St. Louis has more miles of downtown protected bike lanes than Seattle

So, I’m my hometown of St. Louis, Missouri, about to become godfather to my nephew Luke (yes, I will be insufferable with Don Corleone quotes for the next couple days), and I heard that there was a brand new protected bike lane downtown. So of course I had to check it out. The bike lane…
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tagged: ksdk, protected bike lanes, saint louis
July 23, 2015

Downtown traffic violence is a public health emergency we haven’t been treating

It’s not news that downtown streets are the scene of a huge number of serious traffic injuries and deaths. But this map at a recent open house still caught me completely off-guard. At first, I thought it was a map of the past ten years. How awful, so many lives ended or dramatically altered. Then…
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tagged: center city bike lane network, downtown, protected bike lanes
July 20, 2015

City kicks off development of downtown bike lane network, open house Tuesday

It’s really happening. Seattle is developing a connected network of bike lanes to and through the city center. This means connections to Uptown and Queen Anne, to South Lake Union, to Capitol Hill, to First Hill, to the International District, to Pioneer Square, to the I-90 Trail, to the Alaskan Way Trail and West Seattle,…
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tagged: center city bike network, downtown, protected bike lanes
July 16, 2015

NE 65th St is dangerous by design, and we know how to make it safer. What’s stopping us?

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is a follow-up to yesterday’s report about Vehicular Homicide charges against Lucas McQuinn in the alleged DUI collision that killed Andy Hulslander. I suggest reading that story first. The dangers on NE 65th Street are not news. Even without a DUI, the street is dangerous and uncomfortable, especially for people on…
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tagged: andy hulslander, ne 65th, protected bike lanes, tony provine
June 11, 2015

Salomon: Seattle’s newest protected bike lane just part of normal street maintenance

EDITOR’S NOTE: Andres Salomon is a father and active member of NE Seattle Greenways, as well as an occasional contributor to Seattle Bike Blog. Seattle has just added a brand new protected bike lane to its repertoire. Last month, the city finished up work on a half-mile stretch of bike lanes in North Seattle. The…
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tagged: andres salomon, college way n, north seattle community college, protected bike lanes, sdot