Tag: parks and recreation

September 6, 2022

Seattle Parks forgot to make Bicycle Weekends car-free, so riders moved the signs themselves

Labor Day weekend was supposed to be the penultimate Bicycle Weekend on Lake Washington Boulevard for the year, a chance to experience the storied lakeside street without cars. Bicycle Weekend is an expansion of Seattle Parks’ Bicycle Sunday program, which has been opening this street for people outside of cars since 1968. But when people…
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tagged: bicycle sunday, bicycle weekends, lake washington blvd, parks and recreation
September 2, 2022

Parks banned bikes from Green Lake without public outreach, now they’re asking if they should be allowed back

Seattle Parks and Recreation banned all bicycling, skateboarding, roller skating and scootering from the inner loop trail around Green Lake in March despite there being no viable alternative along the west side of the lake. The decision to restrict wheel use on the often-busy path was initially part of the department’s scattered reaction to the…
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tagged: green lake, parks and recreation
May 11, 2022

Bicycle Sundays are now called ‘Bicycle Weekends’ + City begins ‘visioning process’ for Lake Washington Blvd’s future

54 years after the first Bicycle Sunday on Lake Washington Boulevard, the car-free event has long solidified as a beloved tradition. As was the case in 2021, SDOT and Seattle Parks will expand Bicycle Sundays into what they are now calling “Bicycle Weekends,” a series of car-free weekends during the summer. The first 2022 Bicycle…
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tagged: bicycle sunday, bicycle weekends, lake washington blvd, parks and recreation, sdot
March 28, 2022

Without waiting for outer loop path due this summer, Parks Department issues ‘long-term temporary’ ban on bikes at Green Lake

Without waiting for SDOT to complete its “outer loop” bike connection around Green Lake, the Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation banned biking from the popular lakeside trail. “This long-term temporary use restriction, which restricts all bicycles and other wheeled uses from the Green Lake Park inner loop (strollers and mobility devices are allowed), is…
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tagged: green lake, green lake outer loop, history, parks and recreation
December 28, 2021

Key section of Georgetown to South Park Trail moving forward alongside a new dog park

A gravel cut-through in Georgetown near Boeing Field will become a dog park and trail corridor, providing a key piece of the community-led Georgetown to South Park Trail. If all goes according to schedule, the park and trail connection should begin construction in the summer and open in 2023. The City Council’s Transportation and Utilities…
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tagged: duwamish valley safe streets, flume property, georgetown, georgetown to south park connection, parks and recreation, sdot, seattle city light, transportation and utilities committee
April 26, 2021

City considering car-free(ish) Lake Washington Blvd all summer + More Keep Moving Streets updates and a survey

The city may close a three-mile section of Lake Washington Boulevard to most motor vehicles (people accessing homes and parking lots allowed) from Memorial Day to Labor Day. This would be like making every day Bicycle Sunday. You can support this idea by taking SDOT’s online survey before May 10. Seattle already has more than…
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tagged: alki, golden gardens, green lake, keep moving streets, lake washington blvd, parks and recreation, sdot