Tag: u district

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
July 18, 2014

City working on northbound U Bridge bike lane late Friday

The city is making repairs to the University Bridge late Friday and early Saturday, and the northbound bike lane will be closed. Workers will help people on bikes get across the bridge, so there’s no need to detour. The work will go from 11 p.m. to 4 a.m. Here’s the news release from SDOT: Roadway…
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tagged: construction, sdot, u district, university bridge
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
March 18, 2014

The U District’s first neighborhood greenway takes shape

To complement big changes coming from the University of Washington and Sound Transit, the city is close to completing design for the U District’s first ever neighborhood greenway. Located on 12th Ave NE, the neighborhood greenway will connect from the Burke-Gilman Trail to Ravenna Boulevard and includes a desperately-needed traffic signal at NE 50th St…
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tagged: 12th ave ne, sdot, u district, university greenways, uw
November 19, 2013

Open house Wednesday will discuss the U District’s first neighborhood greenway

The U District has car ownership levels on par with Manhattan. This very dense neighborhood depends on transit, walking and biking perhaps more than any other in the city. And while the stretch of the Burke-Gilman Trail that runs through the neighborhood might be among the most heavily-used stretches of bike trail in the nation,…
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tagged: 12th ave ne, u district, university greenways
June 21, 2012

Reader Question: I’m moving to Seattle soon, am I going to need gears?

Just got an email from Bryce, who is moving to the U District soon and will be commuting to Beacon Hill. What advice do you have for him, both in terms of bike routes and in terms of bike needs? Hi Tom, I am relocating to Seattle in a couple of months. My impression of…
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tagged: beacon hill, gears, reader question, single speed, u district