Author: Tom Fucoloro

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
November 18, 2024

Major Burke-Gilman detours in Fremont and Ballard end as sewer work progresses

Seattle’s least-discussed infrastructure megaproject has wrapped up a pair of multi-year, trail-disrupting closures in Fremont and Ballard in recent weeks. Work on the $561 million Ship Canal Water Quality Project has taken place in multiple locations, including bike-route-disrupting closures on Stone Way in Fremont and near Fred Meyer in Ballard. Work at both sites is…
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tagged: ballard, best side cycling, burke-gilman trail, fremont, ship canal water quality project, wallingford
November 14, 2024

Seattle prepares to pass budget with huge increases for safe streets + What CM Saka should do about Delridge

Thanks to Seattle voters, in 2025 the city is poised to invest $21 million in new sidewalks, $4.2 million in sidewalk repairs, $8.6 million in Vision Zero, $1.6 million in Safe Routes to School, $9.8 million in new protected bike lanes, and $1 million to upgrade existing bike lane barriers. To deliver all this, they…
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tagged: 2024 budget, Delridge Way SW, rob saka, sara nelson, sdot, seattle neighborhood greenways
November 13, 2024

CM Saka budget proposal would create plan to end service on SLU Streetcar

The future has become even bleaker for the low-ridership South Lake Union (“SLU”) Streetcar line as Transportation Committee Chair Rob Saka has proposed funding a plan for how to wind down and end service on the line. The budget changes would no actually end service, but they set the stage to do so as early…
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tagged: 2024 budget, bob kettle, center city connector, city council, rob saka, south lake union, south lake union streetcar, streetcars
November 12, 2024

Publicola: SPD emergency driving policy now instructs officers to consider road conditions, safety of other road users

Though you would hope it would have been common sense, the Seattle Police Department recently updated its emergency vehicle operations policies to specify considerations officers should make before choosing to drive above the speed limit, Andrew Engelson at Publicola reported. Officers should take into account the street’s “character,” such as whether it is a side…
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tagged: jaahnavi kandula, publicola, spd
November 8, 2024

A guide to biking in the rain and darkness

As darkness once again descends around us, your bicycle is a torch to illuminate the path and keep the monsters away. It’s brutal to end daylight savings time the same week as we hold an election with foreboding implications. Nightfall has suddenly jumped an hour earlier, matching my emotional state. Though it is not the…
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tagged: autumn biking, daylight savings time, rain, winter biking