Tag: broadway

January 10, 2017

Don’t stop the Broadway streetcar and bikeway now

Today, the First Hill Streetcar and Broadway Bikeway end unceremoniously at Denny Way just before reaching the North Broadway business district. People biking are forced to choose between merging into mixed traffic on the busy commercial street, trying to navigate using side streets with poor business access and poor crossings at busy streets like John/Olive,…
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tagged: broadway, broadway bikeway, broadway streetcar extension, capitol hill, capitol hill seattle, first hill streetcar
January 13, 2016

Most Broadway Bikeway ‘smurf turds’ replaced with standard posts

After years of damage from parallel parkers and taggers, the blue sculptures that lined the Broadway Bikeway in Capitol Hill have been removed, Capitol Hill Seattle reports. They will remain in place on First Hill, at least for now. I, for one, really liked the Broadway Bikeway’s smurf turds, a name they were given almost…
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tagged: ansel herz, broadway, broadway bikeway, caludia fitch, capitol hill, capitol hill seattle, smurf turds
October 15, 2015

Nearly two years later, Broadway Bikeway finally open at north end

For the first time, the entire length of the Broadway Bikeway’s first phase is now open. Since it opened officially exactly two years ago, the north end of the project has been a bike route dead end due to construction for Capitol Hill Station at Denny Way. That means one of the city’s most visible…
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tagged: broadway, broadway bikeway, broadway streetcar extension, ethan melone, first hill streetcar
June 9, 2015

A block-by-block look at the planned Broadway Bikeway extension + Let’s connect to 520

As construction on Capitol Hill Station enters its final phases, the long closure at the north end of the Broadway Bikeway may finally open up in the next month. But the true glory of the bikeway won’t be realized until it extends through the rest of the Broadway business district at least to E Roy…
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tagged: broadway, broadway bikeway, capitol hill, protected bike lanes, steve durrant
August 20, 2014

The Green Lane Project loves the Broadway Bikeway (but illegal turns a problem)

You’ve already seen our thoughts on the Broadway Bikeway, but the lanes caught the eye of Michael Andersen at the national Green Lane Project due to the lengths the city went to work around the street’s many turning conflicts. His observations were posted at StreetsBlog USA. The Broadway Bikeway is a two-way bike lane included…
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tagged: broadway, broadway bikeway, capitol hill, capitol hill seattle, first hill streetcar, green lane project, michael andersen
June 19, 2014

CHS: Broadway Bikeway ridership on the rise despite north end closure

Biking on Broadway with the new two-way protected bike lane is night-and-day compared to the previous road design, which required people on bikes to mix with busy traffic on one of the city’s busiest commercial streets. But use has been limited by a closure at the bikeway’s current northernmost point. People headed southbound on Broadway…
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tagged: bike counter, broadway, broadway bikeway, bryan cohen, capitol hill, capitol hill seattle