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You can now report bike share parking issues with the city’s Find It Fix It app

Posted on April 8, 2020 by Tom Fucoloro

Bike share parking complaints can now be routed through the city’s Find It Fix It app and website as well as by calling 684-ROAD, SDOT’s work order hotline. Basically, reporting a bike share parking issue now goes through the same … Continue reading →

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JUMP is offering free rides to essential workers + City is adding bike parking where needed to ease crunch

Posted on April 1, 2020 by Tom Fucoloro

To help people get around during the COVID-19 outbreak, Seattle’s only bike share company JUMP is offering free 30-minute rides to essential workers during the stay-at-home order (“at least”). Workplaces just need to email [email protected] to get ride codes they … Continue reading →

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Watch: With the West Seattle high bridge closed, here are some popular bike routes to get across the Duwamish River

Posted on March 31, 2020 by Tom Fucoloro

Transcript (auto-generated .txt) There is still no timeline for reopening the West Seattle high bridge, by far the most-traveled way to get across the Duwamish River and connect to the rest of the city. In the meantime, the lower Spokane … Continue reading →

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Upper West Seattle Bridge will be closed for an unknown amount of time, biking across the swing bridge still open

Posted on March 23, 2020 by Tom Fucoloro

SDOT Director Sam Zimbabwe made an unexpected announcement Monday afternoon that the upper West Seattle Bridge will be closed starting at 7 p.m. due to concerns about cracking in the bridge structure. The lower swing bridge and its walking and … Continue reading →

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Mayor Durkan: ‘Eastlake is moving forward’

Posted on February 3, 2020 by Tom Fucoloro

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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You spoke up, and city plans now extend E Union St bike lanes through 23rd Ave

Posted on January 31, 2020 by Tom Fucoloro

Thanks to everyone who voiced their concerns about SDOT’s incomplete plans for E Union Street bike lanes in the Central District, the project team has changed their designs to now extend the new bike lanes through the intersection with 23rd … Continue reading →

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The streets Seattle plans to plow + City site tracks which streets have been plowed recently

Posted on January 14, 2020 by Tom Fucoloro

Are you waiting for SDOT crews to clear your street? Well, you should probably check this map to see if they are ever coming: SDOT also has an interactive map that will be updated to let you know which streets … Continue reading →

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Where 2018’s bicycle collisions happened + More from the Traffic Report

Posted on January 10, 2020 by Tom Fucoloro

Biking is getting gradually safer in Seattle with the rate of collisions involving people on bikes per bike commuter dropping to a new low point in 2018, according to the annual Seattle Department of Transportation Traffic Report. The report, released … Continue reading →

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Shortcut: Construction on the Northgate bike/walk bridge will begin next month

Posted on December 17, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

Editor’s Note: This post introduces a new type of post on Seattle Bike Blog I am calling a “shortcut.” Shortcuts could be many things, but they will all be short. They could be a quick link to a survey or … Continue reading →

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You won’t be allowed to ride a shared scooter on Seattle sidewalks + Combined bikes and scooters capped at 20K

Posted on December 16, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

When (or if) Seattle launches its scooter share pilot in early 2020 as planned, users of the shared scooters will not be allowed to ride on the sidewalk like people biking can. That’s just one of the interesting bits of … Continue reading →

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As city adds lots of bike parking, audit finds fewer poorly-parked bike share bikes + More bike share updates

Posted on December 12, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

The city’s quarterly audit of bike share parking (PDF) found a massive 57% drop in the percentage of Jump and Lime bikes parked incorrectly. Of 756 bikes audited (approximately half Lime and half Jump), staff found only one (0.1%) that … Continue reading →

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After pushback, city will complete Columbian Way bike lane at Beacon Ave

Posted on December 11, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

Here’s some great news for southend bike riders: SDOT has decided to complete the westbound S Columbian Way bike lane at Beacon Ave after all. As we reported in June, neighbors of the major Columbian Way repaving project were surprised … Continue reading →

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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

Posted on December 10, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

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 →

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15 neighbor-led projects SDOT will build in the next couple years

Posted on November 18, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

When voters approved the 2015 Move Seattle Levy, they created a specific fund dedicated to building projects that came from neighbors. The process to get a project completed can be long and somewhat grueling for those to volunteer their time … Continue reading →

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There is room for a better Delridge bike lane

Posted on October 28, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

The city’s RapidRide H project on Delridge Way SW is shaping up to be one of the most disappointing so-called “multi-modal” improvement projects in the city. With a huge need for people to bike along this rare, relatively flat and … Continue reading →

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Watch: Fremont Bridge nears 1 million 2019 bike trips 1 month early

Posted on October 15, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

UPDATE: Cascade Bicycle Club, Queen Anne Greenways and Ballard-Fremont Greenways will host a celebration 3–5 p.m. Saturday, October 19. Details here. Video transcript (.txt) As we reported previously, 2019 bike trips across the Fremont Bridge are set to break one … Continue reading →

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Watch: Move over Sprocket Man, SDOT has a new spokesper…uh…salmon

Posted on October 8, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

OK, so departments of transportation are not known for their excellent advertising. There are exceptions, for sure, like those Midttrafik bus commercials: Or New York’s recent car-shrinking bus GIFs: The rollout of our bus lane enforcement cameras starts with M15 … Continue reading →

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Crews are currently building Seattle’s most important new bike connection in years

Posted on October 2, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

It may be short, but don’t let that fool you. The protected bike lanes currently under construction on a few blocks of S Main St and 5th Ave S between the International District and the 2nd Ave bike lane should … Continue reading →

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Watch: The new Pike Street bike lanes are just a glimpse into the community-led vision for Pike/Pine

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

[video transcript] There’s something very different about the new protected bike lanes on Pike Street on Capitol Hill: Community groups led the process every step of the way. When former mayor Ed Murray slammed the brakes on the Center City … Continue reading →

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SDOT outlines Bell St bike route plans due to open in summer 2020

Posted on September 19, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

Bell Street has been a major westbound bike route through the Denny Triangle and Belltown for a long time. As the most obvious relatively low-traffic connection between 7th and 2nd Avenues for people biking southbound into downtown, Bell is a … Continue reading →

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