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Bike and transit advocacy should work together, meetup Saturday
Washington State’s downtown Seattle highway tunnel is at least $223 million over budget and 2 and a half years behind schedule. All for one highway tunnel expected to carry 40,000 motor vehicles per day once it opens with no transit … Continue reading
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Tagged cascade bicycle club, feet first, seattle neighborhood greenways, seattle transit blog, transit and bicycles, transportation choices coalition
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Who is going to step up and fix the planned waterfront surface highway?
So many of you submitted comments shocked by the gigantic waterfront highway presented in the most recent Waterfront Seattle plans that you triggered a requirement mandating the city study a road design that has fewer lanes to cross between the … Continue reading
Help keep Madison BRT and bike route designs bold at Monday open house
A truly rapid bus on Madison Street from Colman Dock to Madison Valley? Protected bike lanes on E Union Street? Major walking improvements at every terrible Madison intersection? Now that Move Seattle has passed, all this is on track to … Continue reading
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Tagged madison, madison brt, seattle transit blog, union street, zach shaner
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Construction Updates: U Village Burke work underway + Dexter bus stop, 9th Ave N bus lane, South Park trail
Below is a look at some of the work going on around town folks on bikes should be aware of. City starts work on Burke-Gilman improvements near U Village We already told you about the city’s planned crossing and access … Continue reading
City adding sidewalks, bus islands to Greenwood Ave between 90th and 105th
The city is in the final stages of designing a big upgrade to Greenwood Ave N between N 90th and 105th Streets, a busy street with few sidewalks and inadequate bus stops. Billed as a transit improvements project, most the … Continue reading
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Tagged greenwood, greenwood ave, meetings, sdot, seattle transit blog, transit islands
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Young Professionals in Transportation will feature bike share Director Holly Houser
Adam Parast, one of the leaders of the fairly new Young Professionals in Transportation group and a frequent contributor to Seattle Transit Blog, sent along this note that Puget Sound Bike Share Director Holly Houser will present to the group … Continue reading
The Linden cycle track …
… is getting closer to being finished: Linden Ave making progress! twitter.com/SeaTransitBlog… — Seattle Transit Blog (@SeaTransitBlog) November 29, 2012
New Seattle-Port Townsend walk/bike ferry in the works
Getting to Port Townsend with your bike could get a whole lot easier when plans for a new passenger ferry come to fruition as early as spring 2013. The PTLeader has the story: According to the draft plan, the terminals … Continue reading
Seattle Transit Blog: Downtown needs cycle tracks before Bike Share arrives
Following up on our recent post on the founding of Puget Sound Bike Share, Zach Shaner at the Seattle Transit Blog argues that the system should not launch downtown unless there are safe and inviting cycle tracks: Simply put, cycling … Continue reading
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Tagged cycle tracks, downtown, puget sound bike share, seattle transit blog, zach shaner
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Seattle Transit Blog: People with bikes ride Metro buses FREE during Bike Week
Anyone with a bicycle boarding a King County Metro bus between May 14 and 18 will ride for free, Seattle Transit Blog reports. The promotion also applies to Sound Transit buses operated by Metro (540, 542, 545, 550, 554, 555, … Continue reading
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Tagged bike month 2012, bike week 2012, bike/bus combo, king county metro, seattle transit blog
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Seattle Transit Blog: Biggest group of Northgate parkers are within easy bike/walk distance
There’s a lot of good information in Seattle Transit Blog’s recent two-part series on the proposed (and much maligned) Northgate Station parking garage (part 1, part 2). If you are interested in the background on the issue and what kinds … Continue reading
The war on cars that never was, remembered
A column by Jason Gay yesterday in the Wall Street Journal takes a look back at New York’s bickering over the city’s supposed “war on cars.” Now that the weather has improved and more people are riding around town, all … Continue reading
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Tagged ben schiendelman, seattle transit blog, slog, wall street journal, war on cars, zach shaner
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Ballard’s Bikeability: Could Portland’s lessons work well there?
In April, Adam Parast wrote a post for Seattle Transit Blog about a GIS project he had done to analyze a city’s bikeability. The project is full of fantastic information and pondering about what it means for a city or … Continue reading
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Tagged ballard, ballard news tribune, islands of bikeablility, portland, seattle transit blog
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On other blogs: Biking the coast in 1909
A quick roundup of interesting stuff from around the city. Go Means Go has a book review of “Two Wheels North” by Evelyn McDaniel Gibb, the story of two boys who rode their bikes from Santa Rosa to Seattle for … Continue reading
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Over the weekend: Changes to Roosevelt and Jackson
This weekend was amazing for bike riding. Sure, it was sweaty, but there were so many festivals and events going on all over town. And ALL of them had impossible parking and trafic due to road closures … unless you … Continue reading
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Tagged an adventure called bicycling, bike hugger, mad fiber, mara abbott, recap, seattle transit blog, velotopia
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