Year: 2013

September 27, 2013

Reader hit by car under viaduct not injured, but concerned about safety on temporary bikeway

Steve Greenberg was struck by a somebody he says made an illegal right turn on red across the temporary bikeway under the Alaskan Way Viaduct. The collision occurred Friday morning where King Street crosses under the viaduct. He was not injured and says he is not angry at the person who struck him, who rides…
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tagged: alaskan way viaduct, construction, injuries, steve greenberg
September 26, 2013

New York guerrilla bike lane painters hope city takes cue from Seattle

The Reasonably Polite Seattleites just wanted to push the city to make some bike lanes safer. I doubt they imagined their small, “polite” statement about road safety would be used by New York City residents to pressure their leaders to complete a Midtown Manhattan bike lane. But now Atlantic Cities reports that the Cherry Street…
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tagged: atlantic cities, dongho chang, new york, reasonably polite seattleites, right of way
September 26, 2013

Sunday: Join Rainier Valley Food Bank and Bike Works for an urban agriculture bike tour

What is the connection between urban agriculture and cycling? For example, Alleycat Acres funds most of its annual operations with a bike ride, and they even have a garden at their MLK/Columbia farm that is designed in the likeness of a bike wheel (AKA the “sprocket garden”). There is some sort of connection between food…
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tagged: bike works, rainier valley food bank, urban agriculture
September 25, 2013

Devastating Data: Road death dashboard tracks where and why people die on Seattle streets

Troy Heerwagen at Walking in Seattle has created a devastating interactive graphic that tracks where and (to some extent) why people die in Seattle traffic. Look at this data and remember that every single data point was a unique person with a network of friends and family whose lives will never be the same. The…
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September 25, 2013

Not just Seattle: King County is also driving less + A look at biking rates around Puget Sound

Get ready for a little data overload. I’ve been swimming through Census data ever since the 2012 American Communities Survey data came out and showed that biking, walking and transit use in Seattle is way up. But what about the rest of the region? As several readers have pointed out, Seattle’s plummeting rate of driving…
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tagged: american communities survey 2012, census, king county, port townsend, vashon
September 24, 2013

Tuesday Afternoon Theater: Cross-Kirkland Trail construction update

Rail removal on the Cross-Kirkland Corridor is underway, and parts of the corridor will be somewhat walkable/bikeable this fall with a packed gravel interim trail ready by spring 2014. Via Kirkland TV: Progress map:
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tagged: eastside rail corridor, kirkland