Tag: move seattle

July 15, 2021

Seattle’s next mayor will have an enormous impact on the future of biking and safe streets

NOTE: The 2021 primary election is August 3. The deadline to register or change your address online in King County is July 26, but you can register and vote in-person through Election Day. Don’t procrastinate! It’s summer, and August 3 is going to come up fast. The 2021 election is likely the most important Seattle…
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tagged: 2021 primary, move seattle
May 13, 2019

Oversight Committee raises flag on mayor’s ‘disproportionately large’ bike plan cuts

The committee tasked with watchdogging the city’s delivery of the $930 million voters approved through the 2015 Move Seattle levy has written a strong letter of concern about the lack of bicycle network progress and SDOT’s big cuts to the bike plan for the duration of the levy. “We respectfully request the Mayor and City…
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tagged: jenny durkan, move seattle, move seattle levy oversight committee, seattle bicycle advisory board
May 23, 2018

Bike lanes are for cars

People do not need bike lanes to ride a bike. People driving cars need bikes lanes to protect them from intimidating or harming people on bikes. The laws in Washington State are clear. Bikes are vehicles, so people are legally allowed to bike on any street or highway that is not a limited access freeway…
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tagged: 2nd ave, 7th Ave, mike lindblom, move seattle, sdot
April 16, 2018

Mayor Durkan is right, we do need a ‘reset’ on Move Seattle

As regular readers of Seattle Bike Blog know, I have been on family leave since late January following the early birth of my daughter. So unlike the daily news regimen I have reported since 2010, I have not had the bandwidth to post about some major local transportation stories as they have happened. It’s been…
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tagged: goran sparrman, jenny durkan, move seattle, sdot
April 14, 2016

Seattle’s baffling short-term bike plan cuts safety, pretends downtown doesn’t exist

With the 2nd Ave protected bike lane pilot demonstrating Seattle’s vision for more ambitious, safe and comfortable bike routes downtown and beyond, Seattle voters approved an unprecedented transportation levy by a big margin. Mayor Ed Murray, his transportation advisors and the staff at the Seattle Department of Transportation laid out a bold vision, and the…
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tagged: bicycle master plan implementation plan, center city bike network, center city mobility plan, downtown, ed murray, move seattle
January 25, 2016

What does HALA have to do with biking? Everything.

There are basically two ways to increase the number of homes in bikeable and walkable neighborhoods. 1: Improve bikeability and walkability in more neighborhoods, or 2: Increase the number of homes in neighborhoods that are already bikeable and walkable. Most talk about bike infrastructure focuses on the first way, and of course that’s very important.…
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tagged: affordable housing, alan durning, ed murray, hala, kshama sawant, move seattle, move seattle levy