Tag: protected bike lanes

January 8, 2015

Only 2 percent of center city curb space occupied by bike lane

For all the media attention Seattle has received for installing bike lanes in recent years, you might think these things are popping up all over the place. But spend a little time on a bike, and that image is immediately shattered. Seattle streets are very much still focused on driving cars, and biking here with…
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tagged: curbspace study, downtown, protected bike lanes
December 17, 2014

Seattle makes list of top ten best new bikes lanes. Twice. Again.

Seattle’s batting average for national bike lane lists leads the league. Last year, Seattle made the Green Lane Project’s list of the top ten protected bike lanes for 2013 two times: Linden Ave was 5th and Cherry Street was 9th (more for its awesome origin story rather than actual quality). Well, the city did even…
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tagged: 2nd ave, broadway bikeway, green lane project, peopleforbikes, protected bike lanes
November 14, 2014

Green Lane Project: Here’s why protected bike lanes improve safety for people walking

It’s been shown over and over that quality protected bike lanes improve safety for all road users. In fact, protected bike lanes are one of the most effective tools we have to improve safety and comfort for people on foot. There are many reasons for this, but the Green Lane Project recently highlighted four of…
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tagged: green lane project, protected bike lanes
October 30, 2014

City will install temporary protected bike lane on Roosevelt + Neighbors urge city to extend plans further

For much of northeast Seattle, Roosevelt Way is the primary bike route connection to the University of Washington, the University Bridge and beyond. Unfortunately, it is also a hotspot for collisions and injuries for people biking. Nearly 20 people have been injured in collisions while biking on Roosevelt in just the past four years. As…
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tagged: protected bike lanes, roosevelt, sdot, u district, university greenways
October 9, 2014

After 2 collisions at same 2nd Ave parking garage, city makes changes

After the second person in just one week was injured by a person turning across the 2nd Ave protected bike lane into a parking garage between Pike and Union, the city has made changes to improve visibility. Most early efforts to improve the bike lane focused on the signalized intersections, which makes sense because that…
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tagged: 2nd ave, dongho chang, injuries, king 5, protected bike lanes
September 30, 2014

Cohen: 2nd Ave protected bike lanes ‘just the beginning’

You don’t have to bike for very long in Seattle before you figure out the most dangerous kind of street: “Downhill streets with on-street parking and turning movements at intersections: Those are problems that Second Ave had,” Cascade Bicycle Club’s Advocacy Director Jeff Aken explained recently to Josh Cohen at Crosscut. “Cyclists get moving pretty…
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tagged: crosscut, jeff aken, josh cohen, protected bike lanes