Tag: protected bike lanes

May 6, 2014

Murray: Seattle will build pilot protected bike lane on 2nd Ave this year

Seattle will build a protected bike lane on 2nd Ave downtown before Pronto Cycle Share launches later this year, Mayor Ed Murray announced during the Cascade Bicycle Club Bike to Work Breakfast Tuesday. The pilot bike lane project will be built in part with help from the Green Lane Project and will stretch from Pike…
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tagged: 2nd ave, bike to work breakfast 2014, cascade bicycle club, downtown, ed murray, protected bike lanes
April 10, 2014

City installs two blocks of protected bike lanes in U District

The city is nearly finished with work on two blocks of protected bike lanes on NE 40th Street in the U District. As we reported last week, the section is intended to serve both as a permanent addition to the bike network and to help people detouring around construction on the Burke-Gilman Trail and on…
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tagged: dongho chang, NE 40th Street, protected bike lanes, u district, uw
April 10, 2014

Bellevue endorses NACTO guide + Could they beat Seattle to building a downtown protected bike lane?

The City of Bellevue has endorsed the NACTO Urban Street Design Guide, joining an ever-growing list of cities in North America looking to pool their experiences and knowledge into a guide for more active, efficient and safe streets. Seattle’s largest nearby neighbor is currently full of very wide and unfriendly streets. But it’s growing population,…
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tagged: bellevue, david berg, downtown, nacto, protected bike lanes
January 16, 2014

Mayor Murray: ‘Protected bicycle lanes are a crucial component of our transportation infrastructure’

In a recent letter, Mayor Ed Murray did not mince words about how strongly he supports building protected bike lanes in Seattle. In support of Seattle’s application to be part of the national Green Lane Project — a program of PeopleForBikes — Murray called protected bike lanes “a crucial component of our transportation infrastructure and…
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tagged: alliance for biking and walking, cycle tracks, ed murray, green lane project, people for bikes, protected bike lanes
January 6, 2014

Andersen: Using plastic posts instead of curbs, Seattle plans to reduce the cost of protected bike lanes

Which is better for bike lanes: concrete curbs or plastic posts? In the small, fast-growing world of the protected bike lane, Seattle is the city of physical beauty. I won’t lie to you: my organization, which helps U.S. cities build protected bike lanes, named Seattle’s rebuilt Linden Avenue as our No. 5 project of the year…
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tagged: ADA, chicago, cycle tracks, green lane project, michael andersen, peopleforbikes, protected bike lanes
December 5, 2013

Why Seattle must invest in protected bike lanes and transit summarized in one moving GIF

The choice is clear: There is no choice. Seattle must invest in better transit and bike lanes if the city wants to grow. Here’s a moving GIF from 2nd Avenue in downtown Seattle that demonstrates why. Inspired by this GIF that has been making its way around the web, I took the images from the…
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tagged: cycle tracks, downtown, i-sustain, moving gif, protected bike lanes