Category: news
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Parts of the temporary Marion Street walkway will be repurposed as Sound-to-Pacific Trail bridges
The new Marion Street Pedestrian Bridge to the revamped Seattle Ferry Terminal is set to open this week, and crews removed the temporary walkway over the weekend. But thanks to a creative exchange the Puget Sound to Pacific Collaborative facilitated between the City of Seattle and Clallam County, that temporary walkway will not go to…
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Mayor helps celebrate 1.2 million pounds of food transported by the Pedaling Relief Project
Volunteers for the Pedaling Relief Project have hauled 1.2 million pounds of food by bike since 2020, all to support local food bank operations. That’s equivalent to about 1 million meals. “It helps us and the other food bank partners achieve their mission at a time when volunteerism is not keeping pace with the growth…
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Why Counterbalance Bicycles is closing their iconic trailside shop
Counterbalance Bicycles is closing, ending a 16-year run in a trailside space that has become almost a part of the Burke-Gilman Trail itself. The shop is just barely off the trail where it crosses NE Blakely Street near U Village, a post Counterbalance has held since moving there from its original namesake location at W…
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So long, sharrow. Check out our new logo.
What I started Seattle Bike Blog in 2010, I chose an icon that seemed to best represent the experience of biking in Seattle at the time: The sharrow. Officially called a “shared lane marking,” SDOT had painted dozens of miles of sharrows in mixed traffic lanes across the city, including on many busy streets. The…
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It’s happeningggggggg!!!!!!!!!
via SDOT Director Greg Spotts. For background on what’s happening here, see our previous story. UPDATE: I biked there so I could touch it myself to confirm it’s real. It is. However, I now see that this looks like a blurry Big Foot photo from a hunt for the mythical Missing Link. Oooh, there’s a…
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