Tag: 2nd ave

December 13, 2019

Arena’s plans for Denny Way and 2nd Ave move Seattle in the wrong direction

As part of the transportation plan for the new arena in Seattle Center, developers and the City of Seattle are currently planning to delete the north end of the 2nd Ave protected bike lane and steal crossing time from people walking on Denny Way, all in a hopeless effort to move more cars. These plans,…
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tagged: 2nd ave, arena, denny way, jenny durkan, seattle center
January 3, 2019

2018 bike counts up 32 percent on 2nd Ave downtown after bike lane, bike share expansion

The final counts are in, and 2018 is officially a new high water mark for biking in Seattle. Looking at the real-time bike counter data from around town, biking was up significantly in Fremont and across the lower West Seattle Bridge. But the real eye-catcher was 2nd Ave downtown, which saw a 32 percent jump…
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tagged: 2nd ave, bike counter, fremont bridge, lower west seattle bridge
December 20, 2018

Seattle and Bellevue both make it on America’s Best New Bikeways of 2018

Seattle and Bellevue both turned heads nationally with protected bike lanes that opened this year, making People For Bikes’ list of “America’s 10 Best New Bikeways of 2018.” Seattle’s entry, the fantastic 2nd Ave bike lane extension in Belltown, made the 2018 list on a technicality: It was a 2017 project that ran overtime and…
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tagged: 108th ave ne, 108th ave se, 2nd ave, bellevue, people for bikes
June 14, 2018

Biking on 2nd Ave downtown is up 37% as bike share and bike lanes expand

The number of people biking on 2nd Ave in downtown Seattle is up an average of 19 percent year-over-year since the July 2017 launch of private bike share services. And the trend appears to have accelerated as SDOT opened a vital extension of the 2nd Ave bike lane through Belltown in January and companies added…
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tagged: 2nd ave, basic bike network, bike counter, downtown, fremont bridge, jenny durkan
May 23, 2018

Bike lanes are for cars

People do not need bike lanes to ride a bike. People driving cars need bikes lanes to protect them from intimidating or harming people on bikes. The laws in Washington State are clear. Bikes are vehicles, so people are legally allowed to bike on any street or highway that is not a limited access freeway…
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tagged: 2nd ave, 7th Ave, mike lindblom, move seattle, sdot
September 13, 2017

2nd Ave bike lane extension will open southbound in early October, northbound a couple weeks later – UPDATED

The 2nd Ave bike lane will reach Denny Way next month. Work on the street has been ongoing for quite a while as the city prepared it for bike lanes and other improvements for all modes, such as badly needed signals at several Belltown cross streets. But now work on the two-way bike lane itself…
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tagged: 2nd ave, belltown, denny triangle, downtown, sdot