Tag: upper west seattle bridge
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The Emerald City Ride returns in May with a ride over the West Seattle Bridge
For the first time since 2019, Cascade Bicycle Club will host its wildly popular Emerald City Ride, a rare chance to ride on our area’s freeway infrastructure that is usually off limits to bicycling. The 2024 ride will take an all-new route across the West Seattle Bridge. The high one. As Cascade Executive Director Lee…
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Cascade launches flashy new resource to help people bike to and through West Seattle
Cascade Bicycle Club and IZIP electric bikes partnered to create a pretty great-looking map of popular bike routes to and through West Seattle to help more people visualize how they can shift more trips to bike. The illustrated map is cool because it’s a high-level look at the options. But once someone is interested in…
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Letter: Invest 1% of West Seattle Bridge budget to help meet biking goals
A collective letter from neighborhood and regional bike and safe streets advocacy groups calls on SDOT to invest at least 1% of the West Seattle Bridge replacement budget on improving bike connections. The city’s mode shift plan for helping people get around during the bridge closure calls for a massive increase in biking (from about…
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City develops emergency plan in case the West Seattle Bridge falls
The city of course hopes it never comes to this, but they are planning for a worst case scenario in which the bridge becomes so unstable it could collapse. After studying the extensive cracking on the West Seattle High Bridge that prompted its emergency closure in late March, SDOT has installed monitoring devices to alert…
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Some ways the city can help more people bike during the West Seattle High Bridge closure
Seattle needs to take bold, unprecedented action to help many more people get around by bike during the longterm West Seattle High Bridge closure. This isn’t just about improving cycling conditions, it’s one of the only ways the city can keep the whole transportation system moving. Every idea needs to be on the table, including…
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With the West Seattle High Bridge closed until at least 2022, talks begin about building a replacement
As we learn more about the unexpected and sudden closure of the West Seattle High Bridge at the end of March, it’s looking more and more like the decision to close the bridge prevented a horrific tragedy. Cracking on both sides of the support structure of the longest span was on a path to meet…
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