Year: 2013

August 13, 2013

Biking Bis: Landslide closes North Cascades Highway, a national bike route

A section of the North Cascades Highway (Hwy 20) has been closed after heavy rains washed out the road. The road is a popular bike route and a part of the budding National Bike Route plan (NBR 10 to be precise). Biking Bis reports that bike tourists have stopped arriving at Barn Bicycle Camping due…
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tagged: biking bis, hwy 20, nbr 10, north cascades highway, wsdot
August 13, 2013

Trucks driving on Elliott Bay Trail? Must be Hempfest time again!

Seattle’s worst-located annual festival is starting to gear up, frustrating people biking on the Elliott Bay Trail through Myrtle Edwards Park. Hempfest loading started this week, and the impediments will not stop until August 21, a week and a half from now. I’ve already received one email from a reader who said he had to…
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tagged: elliott bay trail, hempfest 2013, myrtle edwards
August 12, 2013

Seattle Transit Blog: Business on NE 65th dramatically increased after bike lane was installed

UPDATE 8/16: I understand that pairing this headline and this graphic was slightly misleading, so I want to make it clear that the study quoted here does not have enough data to say this rise is due to the bike lane (or any other cause for that matter). Rather, it’s evidence that installation of the…
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tagged: 2013 bike master plan update, business, ne 65th, ravenna
August 12, 2013

Ballard lemonade stand owner Helen explains how neighborhood greenways are good for business

I went on a bike tour of the nearly-completed NW 58th Street neighborhood greenway in Ballard Sunday with Cathy Tuttle and Andres Salomon of Seattle Neighborhood Greenways. After climbing up the hill from the Burke-Gilman Trail at the west end of the route, we discovered Helen, a young entrepreneur who explained how the neighborhood greenway…
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tagged: ballard, neighborhood greenways, nw 58th st
August 9, 2013

Mayor McGinn will hold Monday town hall to discuss NE 65th Street

In the whole Bicycle Master Plan update, the idea of a protected bike lane of some kind on NE 65th Street has proven to be the most controversial. But it also one of the projects with the most promise, both as a way to increase access to the future light rail and the commercial center…
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tagged: 2013 bike master plan update, mike mcginn, ne 65th, ravenna blog
August 9, 2013

Seattle Times Ed Board continues bike love, praises Kirkland for trail plans

It’s turning into a true summer romance! The Seattle Times Editorial Board <3 Bikes! We’ve been watching this year as the board, which has been critical or at least not supportive of bold bike investments in the past, has more and more seen bike infrastructure as vital for road safety and the city’s economic development.…
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tagged: seattle times editorial board