Tag: buffered bike lanes

October 10, 2024

Move Redmond: Add protection to buffered bike lanes in the city budget + A note on evolving bike lane terminology

Move Redmond put out an action alert asking people contact the Redmond City Council and/or attend one of the upcoming public hearings on October 15 urging them to add enough funding to upgrade the city’s planned buffered bike lanes to protected bike lanes. Now, I may be biased because Move Redmond’s Executive Director Kelli Refer…
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tagged: action alerts, buffered bike lanes, kelli refer, move redmond, protected bike lanes, redmond
December 14, 2011

Spot with most bike-involved collisions gets new bike lane

As reported in October, the stretch of N 45th Street in front of the Wallingford Dick’s Drive-In saw the highest number of traffic collisions between cars and bikes in the whole city. Responding to the issue, SDOT has installed a buffered bike lane in front of the popular burger joint. The lane replaces what previously…
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tagged: buffered bike lanes, dick’s drive-in, n 45th st, sdot, wallingford
December 5, 2011

Buffer space added to bike lanes on older section of Dexter

A few weeks ago, the city added a couple feet of buffer space to the bike lanes on Dexter between Mercer and Denny Way, just south of the recently-reconfigured section complete with bus islands and a road diet. The added buffers were the only changes made to the road, which still has four general purpose…
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tagged: buffered bike lanes, dexter, rechanelizations, road diets, sdot
October 12, 2011

Dexter is a next generation Seattle bike facility (VIDEO)

The repaved and redesigned Dexter Ave N has been open for a couple weeks now, and so far I have only heard praise for the road’s design. The wide bike lanes with several feet of buffer space make biking remarkably low-stress. It just feels safe. The bus islands appear to be working well for people…
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tagged: 2nd ave, buffered bike lanes, dexter, downtown, queen anne, separated bike lanes
June 9, 2011

S Columbian Way project to calm traffic, connect Beacon Hill and Columbia City

SDOT repaved and redesigned S Columbian Way between 15th Ave S and Beacon Ave S last year, and the interim results are promising: • Traffic volume up 15-20% • No change in number of collisions • 85th percentile speed down from 38.5 to 36.1 • Top-end speeders (40 mph +) down 47% Now, SDOT is…
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tagged: 2011 paving, beacon hill, buffered bike lanes, columbia city, rainier vista, s alaska st, s columbian way
February 25, 2011

Attention Dexter bikers: Construction starts March 7

Work to repave Dexter Ave N is scheduled to start March 7 and will not be completed until late summer (h/t Fremont Universe). Bicyclists will at times be required to ride with general traffic during lane closures throughout the length of construction. Combined with construction from the Mercer project, both Westlake and Dexter will pose…
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tagged: 2011 road projects, buffered bike lanes, construction, dexter, sdot