Tag: pike/pine

September 22, 2017

City will build a few blocks of very needed Pike/Pine bike lanes this weekend

SDOT crews will install five blocks of protected bike lanes on Pike and Pine Streets downtown this weekend, making a vital connection to the under-construction 2nd Ave bike lane in the heart of the downtown retail core. If the weather holds out and work goes smoothly, the bike lanes should be open Monday. Once completed,…
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tagged: downtown, pike/pine, sdot
August 30, 2017

Protected bike lanes coming to Pike/Pine a big improvement, but fall just short

Pike and Pine Streets downtown are among the biggest missing bike connections downtown, and the city wants to take action to make them safer and more comfortable by the end of the year. Like with 2nd Ave in 2014, SDOT staff have been moving quickly to get the Pike/Pine bike lanes planned, designed and ready…
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tagged: basic bike network, downtown, pike/pine, sdot
February 16, 2017

How One Center City can finally build the vital Pike/Pine bike connection

Pike/Pine is one of the most needed and promising connections in the entire Seattle bike network. And the multi-agency One Center City partnership is looking to make major near-term changes along the corridor between Pike Place Market and Broadway that include protected bike lanes. We already wrote about the One Center City ideas for north-south…
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tagged: capitol hill, downtown, one center city, pike/pine
December 29, 2016

Convention Center expansion should help build major bike network crossroads

Much of the talk about public benefits from the planned Washington State Convention Center expansion has been focused on the very exciting idea of building a lid over more of I-5 connecting downtown to Capitol Hill and First Hill. The Lid I-5 campaign hopes to get the full cost of a technical feasibility study paid…
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tagged: capitol hill, downtown, first hill, i-5, lid i-5, pike/pine, WA State Convention Center
March 2, 2015

Following strong Seattle sales, Public Bikes will open store on Capitol Hill

Public Bikes will open its first ever retail location outside the Bay Area in Seattle this spring. With stylish, often solid-colored city bikes priced in the low-to-mid range, Public Bikes will be moving into the bike shop vacuum Velo left when it moved to 6th and Blanchard in 2013. “In the five years of data…
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tagged: capitol hill, dan nguyen-tan, pike/pine, public bikes
June 14, 2012

Happy Birthday, Nap

Nap Cantwell would have been 19 today. Flowers and two ghost bikes now adorn the intersection where he crashed into the side of a van May 29. He died one week later.
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tagged: boren, deaths, nap cantwell, pike/pine