Tag: cherry st

February 18, 2015

As work starts on Central Area Greenway, the case for a safer E Cherry Street

As we reported previously, the city is about to start work on the first phase of the Central Area Greenway, running from Jackson to John along 25th and 22nd Avenues. Well, we thought we should expand on our suggestion for a bike connection on E Cherry Street to fill a safety gap in the interim…
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tagged: central area greenway, central district, cherry st, coyote central, garfield community center
December 5, 2013

Seattle makes national list of top ten protected bike lanes in 2013 … twice

Seattle’s belated entry into protected bike lanes has definitely made a splash. In fact, the national Green Lane Project recently created a list of the top ten protected bike lanes of 2013, and Seattle made the list … twice. Linden Ave clocked in at 5th, and Cherry Street made the list in the 9th spot.…
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tagged: cherry st, cycle tracks, green lane project, linden, protected bike lanes, reasonably polite seattleites
July 15, 2013

SDOT makes guerrilla-installed protected bike lane permanent

Remember when an anonymous bike safety group calling themselves “Reasonably Polite Seattleites” installed a series of plastic pylons on Cherry Street to demonstrate how easy it would be for the city to turn a regular bike lane into a protected one? Well, the city took their advice and not only reinstalled a more resilient style…
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tagged: cherry st, dongho chang, protected bike lanes, sdot
April 4, 2013

Guerrilla road safety group ‘politely’ installs illegal bike lane protectors on Cherry Street

An extremely polite group of anonymous guerrilla road safety activists armed with $350 worth of reflective plastic pylons turned the painted Cherry Street bike lane under I-5 into a protected bike lane Monday morning. The group—calling themselves the Reasonably Polite Seattleites—wanted to make a statement about how easy and affordable it would be for the…
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tagged: cherry st, dongho chang, protected bike lanes, reasonably polite seattleites, sdot
June 28, 2011

New bike route will connect Cherry St downtown to Broadway

SDOT is moving forward with plans to create a bike route to connect Broadway and Capitol Hill to downtown via Cherry St. Today, First Hill is something of a black hole of bike routes in the city’s center, and the new route aims to help people get up the hill safely and with as comfortable…
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tagged: 2011 paving, bike lanes, capitol hill, central district, cherry st, downtown, first hill