Tag: downtown
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The 20-year bike plan for Downtown, Queen Anne, Interbay and Magnolia
Mayor Bruce Harrell’s proposed Seattle Transportation Plan (“STP”) is now in the hands of the City Council, who can make some final changes before adopting it as official city policy. The STP will supersede the 2014 Bicycle Master Plan, so it’s important to take a close look at its vision for the next 10–20 years…
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Action Alert: Tell the Port you support a seamless waterfront trail
You have already told SDOT to build a continuous waterfront trail between Myrtle Edwards Park and the new downtown waterfront, but city plans still show the trail crossing Alaskan Way twice in a matter of a couple blocks near the cruise ship terminal at Pier 66. Now Seattle Neighborhood Greenways has another action alert you…
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There are trees growing through the grate in the 4th Avenue bike lane buffer
There are a half dozen trees growing out of the metal grate in the buffer space protecting the 4th Avenue bike lane downtown across the street from Westlake Park. I noticed them while biking home Wednesday evening, and I had to stop. They are the same kind of tree as whatever is growing on the…
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How to bike downtown during the emergency Link service disruption
Link light rail trains will only be running through the downtown transit tunnel every 32 minutes during a period starting now and lasting an estimated two weeks, Sound Transit announced Thursday evening. Mike Lindblom at the Seattle Times reported that the construction crew working on the Pine Street rebuild damaged the lid over Westlake Station…
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No, the city is NOT cutting down cherry trees to build a bike project
Contrary to what you may have read on Twitter or saw written on yellow signs on trees on Pike Street near the market, Seattle’s decision to cut down cherry trees on the block between 1st and 2nd Avenues has nothing to do with bike improvements. In fact, the project removing the trees will also remove…
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Construction to build major bike improvements brings many months of tough detours on Pike and Pine
Crews building improved bike lanes on Pike and Pike Streets downtown will close existing stretches of bike lanes for months at a time. So while both bike lanes were already incomplete, biking there will get worse before it gets better. Central Seattle Greenways has sounded the alarm about the sorry detour options for this major…
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