Tag: downtown

October 28, 2013

Downtown streetcar plans don’t include safe bikeway

Plans for the City Center Connector streetcar do not currently include a safe bike facility. Analysis of the options for a streetcar through downtown to connect the South Lake Union and First Hill lines has settled on First Avenue as the best option both for speed and ridership. As advertised on this site, streetcar planners…
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tagged: center city connector, downtown, first avenue, streetcars
August 28, 2013

Man charged with vehicular assault for speeding and crashing into woman on bike downtown

Tyler J Gilstrom, 24, has been charged with vehicular assault for seriously injuring a woman on Alaskan Way shortly before 5:30 p.m. March 1 (a Friday), the PI reports. Gilstrom was going 60 on his Honda motorcycle when he crashed into a 64-year-old woman on a bike. They were both headed southbound just two blocks…
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tagged: alaskan way, crime, downtown, injuries, tyler gilstrom
July 25, 2013

Bike Master Plan Draft 2: Central Seattle

The last day to comment on the second draft of the Bicycle Master Plan is Friday. Email your comments to [email protected]. This post is a continuation of a series investigating some of changes in the newest draft of the Bike Master Plan. In general, the updated Bike Master Plan includes a lot of bold and…
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tagged: 2013 bike master plan update, belltown, capitol hill, central district, downtown, eastlake, international district, pioneer square, south lake union
July 11, 2013

Updated waterfront plans lay out more bikeway, street design details

Waterfront Seattle recently held a public meeting to unveil updated plans for the streetscape, transit, walking and biking experience on the soon-to-be renovated downtown waterfront. Plans include a two-way bikeway on the waterfront side of the street, separated from both vehicle traffic and the walking promenade. If you are biking from the Alaskan Way Trail…
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tagged: alaskan way, downtown, waterfront
June 21, 2013

Bike expert John Pucher gives downtown Seattle a scathing review

Rutgers Professor and longtime bike researcher John Pucher is in town for the Bicycle Urbanism Symposium. Pucher’s research and the book he co-authored, City Cycling, has been influential on shifting North American thinking about cycling away from fit, brave people biking in traffic or on skinny painted bike lanes toward people of all ages and…
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tagged: 2nd ave, downtown, john pucher, seattle neighborhood greenways
April 26, 2013

A sneak peek inside the downtown Timbuk2 store

Timbuk2 is getting ready to open the doors on its downtown retail store May 4, the company’s first store outside its hometown San Francisco. It is also their first store in a downtown location anywhere. “Being our first store outside San Francisco, we wanted to expose ourselves to a wider market,” said Retail Manager Bryan…
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tagged: downtown, timbuk2