Author: Tom Fucoloro

December 5, 2024

Alert: It is once again time to voice overwhelming support for a safer Lake Washington Blvd

Even the dramatically watered-down and insufficient traffic calming improvements planned for Lake Washington Boulevard are now apparently at risk after pushback from “people who enjoy driving as fast as they want along the boulevard,” as Seattle Neighborhood Greenways put it. Neighbors have campaigned for years about the need for safer walking and biking space on…
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tagged: lake washington blvd, parks and recreation, rainier valley greenways, sdot, seattle neighborhood greenways
December 3, 2024

Talking up biking in Seattle on Radio Free Urbanism

Big thanks for Nic Laporte in Vancouver, BC, for inviting me to ramble about biking in Seattle on the Radio Free Urbanism podcast. You can listen wherever you get your podcast or watch via YouTube:
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tagged: nic laporte, podcasts, radio free urbanism
December 2, 2024

You can finally file bike facility maintenance requests via SDOT’s Find It, Fix It app

SDOT’s Find It, Fix It app is surprisingly powerful. You can report a pothole or broken walk signal or broken bicycle detector and SDOT crews will look into the issue as part of their regular maintenance process. Sometimes, you get results within days. Sometimes, especially if the problem is extensive, it does not get fixed,…
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tagged: find it fix it, sdot
November 25, 2024

Seattle riders donated 2+ TONS of goods by bike during record-smashing 15th Annual Cranksgiving

I am still in shock. I knew we had a good crowd Saturday morning as we sent Cranksgiving riders out into the city to buy food and necessities for local food banks, but I had no idea we were on the verge of turning all previous participation and donation records to dust. Riders crossed the…
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tagged: andrew koved, best side cycling, both ways cafe, byrd barr place, cascade bicycle club, center for bicycle repair, cranksgiving, cranksgiving 2024, landon welsh, rainier valley food bank, rei, seattle pedaling relief project, tom bihn, u district food bank, wombi
November 21, 2024

Bike/walk bridge over SR 520 in Montlake will open Dec 14

The very long-awaited biking and walking bridge over SR 520 in Montlake will finally open with a community celebration 11 a.m. December 14. For the better part of a decade, folks trying to bike through Montlake have been dealing with a variety of different detours, and they’ve been stuck mixing with people on the sidewalk…
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tagged: 520 trail, montlake, sr 520, wsdot
November 20, 2024

Beacon Hill community group’s recommended bike detours during 15th Ave S construction

SDOT is hard at work building a major improvement to bicycle access on Beacon Hill: Protected bike lanes on 15th Ave S and Beacon Ave S. When completed, this will be one of Seattle’s most important bike route improvements in years. But first, folks need to get through construction. The city’s official bicycle detour points…
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tagged: 15th ave s, beacon hill, beacon hill safe streets, bob svercl, sdot