Tag: 2nd ave

August 24, 2015

One year after Kung was killed, join a vigil and call for Vision Zero Friday

Traffic injuries and deaths are preventable, and we have the cure. We’ve already planned Seattle’s safe streets upgrades corridor-by-corridor and neighborhood-by-neighborhood. The city’s traffic engineers have studied proven best practices from in town and around the world. The city is essentially holding the traffic violence vaccine in its hands, but we’re still scared to take…
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tagged: 2nd ave, cascade bicycle club, memorial rides, memorial walks, move seattle, move seattle levy, sher kung
July 9, 2015

City and contractor rethinking sudden 2nd Ave bike lane closure

The moment fences went up blocking the 2nd Ave protected bike lane just south of Pike Street, I started getting tweets and emails from baffled people who, rather than having a protected bike lane were detoured mid-block into the general traffic lane: Holy cow @seattledot, that bike lane closure on 2nd Ave is brutal. @seabikeblog…
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tagged: 2nd ave, construction, dongho chang, sdot
June 11, 2015

City gives opposite tickets to people obeying the 2nd Ave traffic signals

Most people follow the rules on 2nd Ave. Most people biking stop when the bike signal is red, and most people turning left obey the red arrow and wait their turn. Unfortunately, most isn’t good enough, and there are far too many people still turning across the bike lanes when people on bikes have the…
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tagged: 2nd ave, re-enforcement patrols, sdot
February 5, 2015

City will remove one of the Sher Kung ghost bikes

As news spread that a young and popular lawyer had died biking to work downtown, mourners came to 2nd and University to pay their respects. Many left flowers, some left notes. Two people brought ghost bikes. One person even left a copy of a book about fighting for LGBT rights, a cause Kung was dedicated…
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tagged: 2nd ave, dawn schellenberg, ghost bikes, sdot, sher kung
December 17, 2014

Seattle makes list of top ten best new bikes lanes. Twice. Again.

Seattle’s batting average for national bike lane lists leads the league. Last year, Seattle made the Green Lane Project’s list of the top ten protected bike lanes for 2013 two times: Linden Ave was 5th and Cherry Street was 9th (more for its awesome origin story rather than actual quality). Well, the city did even…
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tagged: 2nd ave, broadway bikeway, green lane project, peopleforbikes, protected bike lanes
October 29, 2014

SDOT and PeopleForBikes make a video about 2nd Ave that’s … well, just watch it

There are a couple ways to encourage and teach people to use a new piece of bike infrastructure. In the first handful of days after the 2nd Ave protected bike lane opened, for example, volunteers and SDOT staff were out telling people face-to-face how to use it. Then the police focused enforcement on the bike…
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tagged: 2nd ave, people for bikes, sdot, video