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  • Weekend Guide: Peddler Brewing’s End of Bike Month Party, Lake to Lake Bike Ride + more

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    Tom Fucoloro

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    All you need for summer fun is your bicycle and the Seattle Bike Blog Events Calendar. Below are a couple items on the list for this weekend. If you know of an event that isn’t listed on the calendar, add it!

    End of Bike Month Party at Peddler Brewing — Friday

    An annual tradition in Ballard. Details from the event page:

    May is officially Bike Month, and now that you’ve gotten back on your bike in all the nice weather, let’s celebrate! Join us at Peddler in our Beer Garden and celebrate the best way to get around: by bike!

    Friday 6/2, 4:00-8:00pm
    Location: Peddler Brewing Company
    Bike-related Vendors & Food Truck on site
    Raffle – 1 ticket per pint, drawing at 7:30pm, must be present to win, tons of prizes

    Vendors:
    Washington Bikes
    Cascade Bicycle Club
    Washington Bike Law
    Electric and Folding Bikes Northwest
    Timbuk2
    Telaio Wool Bicycling Clothing
    velofix
    Greenwood-Phinney Greenways

    With plenty of bike parking, we encourage riders of all ages, abilities and styles to come out to this celebration of biking in Seattle. And Peddler is all ages!

    Lake to Lake Bike Ride in Bellevue — Saturday

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  • Trail Alert 5/31 – 6/14: Plan for delays getting to the Alaskan Way Trail at King St

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    Tom Fucoloro

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    Just in from Seattle City Light:

    Construction for Transmission Line Relocation Project (TLR) Phase 2 – South King Street west of Alaskan Way closed to vehicles for up to two weeks

    Location: Intersection at South King Street and Alaskan Way

    South King Street west of Alaskan Way scheduled closed to vehicles for up to two weeks

    On Tuesday, May 30, crews began work at South King Street as part of Phase 2 for construction of the Transmission Line Relocation Project (TLR). As part of this work, South King Street west of Alaskan Way will be closed to vehicles for up to two weeks. Bicyclists and pedestrians will still be able to access the Elliott Bay Trail from South King Street – flaggers will be onsite to direct bicycle and pedestrian traffic. Please follow all posted signs and expect temporary, short-term delays accessing the trail. Work includes excavating and installing conduits and concrete encasement for the transmission lines. Vehicles accessing the Port of Seattle Terminal 46 work zone will be directed to South Jackson Street.

    Night work at Yesler Way is scheduled to continue through early June. Crews will be working on Saturdays throughout the month of June during daytime hours, 7 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

    What to expect at South King Street: (more…)

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  • Spring Street bike lane is a big improvement, but it ends just short of First Hill

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    Tom Fucoloro

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    Looking east on Spring Street from 1st Ave.

    Downtown just got a new bike lane on Spring Street.

    It’s not the kind of bike route addition that’s going to start any biking revolutions, but it’s a major improvement over what was there before. And with just a few adjustments and a three-block extension, it could have a big impact on bike access to First Hill.

    The new lane is not the final design for Spring Street. It is a decently wide, paint-only bike lane up a steep hill placed in the door zone of parked cars. So why, you may ask, am I excited about it?

    Because it is a major improvement over what existed previously, it is coupled with an improvement for Metro’s excruciatingly slow Route 2 bus, and it wasn’t supposed to happen at all until 2019 when the Madison BRT project is constructed. It’s a quick and inexpensive way to make a signifiant improvement for biking immediately. When (if) the Madison project is constructed in a few years, that’s when the city can invest to make it a proper protected bike lane. (more…)

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  • This unfortunate Seattle Times front page showcases the toxic windshield perspective

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    Tom Fucoloro

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    If I didn’t take the screenshot myself, I would assume this was a clever photoshop joke. But it’s real, as Washington Bike Law (a SBB sponsor) pointed out on Facebook.

    The top of Saturday’s Seattle Times teased a story about how it is dangerous for people to wear dark-colored clothing when they walk or bike right next to a wire story about some mounts you can buy to “make it safer to use your phone while driving.”

    This is the toxic windshield perspective in a nutshell. People who decided to throw on a black shirt in the morning are asking to be hit by cars, but it is totally safe to use your phone while driving so long an you buy a mount for it.

    Together, these stories try to justify a dangerous behavior (the wire story never even mentions that you could *gasp* not use your phone at all while driving) and put the blame for traffic injuries and deaths on the victim (the “fashion” story never bothers to mention that fucking everybody wears black because, like, a shit load of clothes in the world are black because it is the combination of all colors and looks fucking cool).

    It’s weird that this needs to be said, but: Seattle, wear whatever you want to wear.

    Sometimes people wear black shirts. Sometimes people wear yellow shirts. Sometimes people wear no shirts at all. No matter what they are wearing, the person driving is responsible for not hitting them. Period.

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  • Scenes from the 2017 Emerald Bike Ride

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    Tom Fucoloro

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    I had a great time biking on freeways Sunday with more than 7,000 smiling, happy people.

    Freeways are rarely joyful places, which is what makes Cascade’s second annual Emerald Bike Ride so great. For a few hours a year, the region’s most enormous pieces of infrastructure become bike-only, giving people a chance to experience what it is like to bike around the region on billions of dollars worth of public investment.

    It’s pretty damn fast and easy.

    Here are some photos from the ride: (more…)

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  • Salomon: Finally fixing NE 65th Street (Part Two)

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    Andres Salomon

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    EDITOR’S NOTE: This is Part Two of a two-part series by Andres Salomon looking at NE 65th Street safety improvements. Part One describes the urgent need for safety improvements along the part of 65th where five people have been killed and seriously injured in the past two years. Part Two looks at possible solutions.

    We need to determine what kind of street we want 65th to be. Photo from SDOT’s online survey.

    NE 65th Street has proven to be dangerous to people walking, biking and driving. The city urgently needs to make safety improvements, as I’ve outlined in Part One. Not only are any significant safety improvements being delayed until 2019, but the improvements proposed by SDOT do not go far enough.

    The NE 65th corridor will see explosive growth in the numbers of people walking, biking, waiting for the bus and taking light rail in coming years.  The current proposals from the city short-change people walking, biking, and riding mass transit in order to prioritize the flow of cars. The city needs to do better.

    An SDOT survey is live now through June 1, so be sure to fill it out and let the project team know that we urgently need real improvements to NE 65th. You can also contact city officials directly:

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