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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...
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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...
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Dearborn bike lane improvements will connect downtown to I-90 Trail, SE...
This terrible shifting bike lane will get a sorely-needed upgrade. Photo from SDOT. Dearborn Street is both flat and useful. So even though it is not packed with destinations itself and though it...
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Campus Parkway protected bike lanes will come tantalizingly close to...
The city has started laying out the spray-paint outlines for new protected bike lanes on NE Campus Parkway and one block of Brooklyn Ave NE in the U District. The project should be complete by the end...
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New 2nd Ave traffic signals clear up confusion
When the city finally upgraded the old skinny paint-only door zone bike lane on 2nd Ave in 2014, it was an incredible increase in biking comfort downtown. But almost immediately after opening one thing...
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City extends 9th Ave protected bike lanes + How can the city fix the Mercer...
Phase II of the 9th Ave bike lane extends the connection two blocks further to Harrison. We are two blocks closer to a complete connection between downtown and the Westlake Bikeway. SDOT installed...
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Some more details on the MLK Way S bike lane options + How to choose between...
I already wrote about the MLK Jr Way S bike lane concepts, but SDOT gave a few more details about the project during the May Bicycle Advisory Board meeting (PDF) that are worth sharing. First, some...
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With just one block missing from the Bell Street bike lane, Seattle’s...
From Google Maps, which does not yet automatically recognize the route as of press time. Seattle is only one block away from completing a connected bike route through downtown from the International...
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Report details how much catching up Seattle has to do in 2021 on bike lanes
A report completed by the Seattle Department of Transportation in December but not released until this week shows how much catching up the department is planning to do in 2021 to complete installing...
View ArticleMove Redmond: Add protection to buffered bike lanes in the city budget + A...
Move Redmond put out an action alert asking people contact the Redmond City Council and/or attend one of the upcoming public hearings on October 15 urging them to add enough funding to upgrade the...
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