Tag: seattle transit blog

November 29, 2012

The Linden cycle track …

… is getting closer to being finished: Linden Ave making progress! twitter.com/SeaTransitBlog… — Seattle Transit Blog (@SeaTransitBlog) November 29, 2012
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tagged: linden, seattle transit blog
September 12, 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 would be located at the Point Hudson Marina in Port Townsend and the Bell Harbor…
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tagged: ferries, port townsend, ptleader, seattle transit blog
August 16, 2012

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 throughout downtown Seattle is unwelcoming for all but the boldest, most athletic cyclists, and arguably…
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tagged: cycle tracks, downtown, puget sound bike share, seattle transit blog, zach shaner
May 2, 2012

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, 556 and 560). Details are coming soon, STB says, but this sounds like a brilliant…
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tagged: bike month 2012, bike week 2012, bike/bus combo, king county metro, seattle transit blog
March 29, 2012

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 of hurtles we need to overcome in order to avoid spending $15 million in transit…
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tagged: haller lake, northgate station, pinehurst, seattle transit blog
June 23, 2011

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 that rhetoric seems to have died out now that it is “eclipsed by reality.” From…
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tagged: ben schiendelman, seattle transit blog, slog, wall street journal, war on cars, zach shaner