Tag: 5th ave

February 4, 2020

Watch: Mayor Durkan celebrates downtown bike lanes, says more to come

(Video transcript) Mayor Jenny Durkan has completely changed her tune about bike lanes since her first year in office. Well, that’s not entirely accurate because in her first year in office, she said very little about bike lanes at all. Projects were quietly delayed, scaled back or, in the case of 35th Ave NE, cut…
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tagged: 5th ave, 8th ave, 9th ave, basic bike network, bell street, center city bike network, clara cantor, downtown, jenny durkan, Main St, south lake union, vicky clarke
October 2, 2019

Crews are currently building Seattle’s most important new bike connection in years

It may be short, but don’t let that fool you. The protected bike lanes currently under construction on a few blocks of S Main St and 5th Ave S between the International District and the 2nd Ave bike lane should easily be the most important improvements to bike access Seattle has completed since, well, 2nd…
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tagged: 5th ave, downtown, international district, king st, Main St, sdot
August 6, 2018

Downtown-to-ID bike lane options are proving difficult, city plans subpar route

Connecting the 2nd Ave bike lane to the International District and the Southeast Seattle bike routes beyond is proving to be very difficult. This connection is the single most important missing piece of the downtown bike network, and the City Council this week included it in the resolution listing projects they want SDOT to complete…
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tagged: 5th ave, 6th ave s, dearborn st, downtown, first hill streetcar, international district, jackson, pioneer square, sdot
January 30, 2017

The One Center City plan includes some bold ideas, but fails to prioritize safety

The One Center City partnership released a set of “near-term strategies” for a major redesign of downtown streets Thursday that would increase bus capacity, could increase car capacity, and neither commits to building a connected network of safe bike lanes nor prioritizes safety for people walking (by far the fastest-growing mode downtown). Aside from the…
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tagged: 4th ave, 5th ave, basic bike network, center city bike network, center city mobility plan, downtown, one center city
May 23, 2016

Yesler bridge work starts today + Will they build the right kind of bike lanes?

A $19.8 million project to rehab the historic Yesler Way bridge downtown starts today. Yesler Way will be under construction from 6th to 3rd Avenues downtown until fall 2017. You should also expect construction and detours on 4th and 5th Avenues. The city recently extended the 2nd Ave bike lane to S Washington St, so…
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tagged: 4th ave, 5th ave, center city bike network, downtown, yesler
May 15, 2016

Man killed and woman seriously injured in shared-bike collision with bus

A man and woman sharing a bike collided with a Sound Transit bus at 5th and Main at 10:40 p.m. Saturday night. The woman was seriously injured, but conscious at the scene. The man died. Our condolences to his friends and family. KIRO TV reports that the man was 41 and the woman is 37.…
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tagged: 5th ave, deaths, injuries, international district, kiro, s main street, sound transit, spd