Tag: fremont

August 10, 2016

Work starts Monday on bike lanes to connect Burke-Gilman, Fremont Bridge

After more than a year of planning, SDOT is ready to begin construction on a short-but-key section of protected bike lane connecting the Burke-Gilman Trail to the Fremont Bridge. People biking already make up nearly a third of traffic on the street during peak hours, and the upcoming opening of the Westlake Bikeway is only…
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tagged: 2016 construction, fremont, fremont bridge, N 34th St, sdot
July 6, 2016

State will close busy Fremont section of Burke-Gilman Trail Monday – UPDATED

UPDATE 7/8: WSDOT announced Friday that this closure is being put on hold so the team can rethink how the trail detour will work. From WSDOT: The planned closure of the Burke-Gilman Trail through Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood on Monday, July 11 is postponed. WSDOT will work with the bicycle community, the City of Seattle and…
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tagged: burke-gilman trail, fremont, wsdot
June 15, 2016

Your guide to biking in the 2016 Fremont Solstice Parade

Will 2016 be the year you finally go for it and ride in the Fremont Solstice Parade? The iconic tradition where everyone is invited to strip down “as bare as you dare,” paint their bodies and bike ahead of the official parade continues to grow with an estimated 1,500 participating in 2015. In essence, all…
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tagged: fremont, fremont arts council, fremont solstice parade 2016, solstice bike ride
June 7, 2016

Fremont Arts Council tries to officialize, register iconic Solstice ‘naked’ bike riders

In the early 90s, a handful of people decided to hop on bikes and streak the Fremont Solstice Parade. They surely didn’t know at the time that they would inspire the world. Their act of celebratory, bicycle-powered mischief set the stage for thousands of people to follow their lead, painting their bodies (thus why I…
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tagged: beyond naked, fremont, fremont arts council, fremont solstice parade 2016
January 26, 2016

Rethinking Seattle’s Freeways: Mr. Inslee, tear down this Aurora wall

What if Bertha never finishes the SR 99 highway tunnel? What if SR 99 doesn’t need to be a freeway-style highway through downtown at all? And what if that’s true for the whole city, too? In other words, what if we tear down that awful Aurora Ave median wall once and for all? I’m talking…
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tagged: aurora, deep bore tunnel, fremont, green lake, jay inslee, phinney ridge, queen anne, rethinking seattle’s freeways, sr 99, wallingford
June 22, 2015

City proposes simple fix to connect Fremont Bridge and Burke-Gilman Trail

The city has proposed a simple way to better connect the Fremont Bridge and the Burke-Gilman Trail: Two blocks of protected bike lanes on the south side of N 34th Street. The east section is pretty simple: Make the existing eastbound bike lane into a two-way bike lane. Everything else stays the same:
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tagged: fremont, N 34th St, sdot