Tag: westlake

November 15, 2022

The Westlake Bikeway’s ‘Glacial Canoes’ have eroded, and they’re not coming back

A reader on Mastodon asked the other day, “Does anyone know what happened to the big glittery pieces of art at the south end of the Westlake bike path?” The blue and gray glittering sculptures on both sides of the Westlake Bikeway disappeared earlier this month, and I have some bad news: The Glacial Canoes…
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tagged: 1% for art, glacial canoes, jennifer dixon, jewelboats, sdot, westlake
December 20, 2016

As tacks return, Westlake bikeway named nation’s ‘best new bike lane’ for 2016

The Green Lane Project has named the Westlake Bikeway “the country’s best new bike lane of 2016.” An arm of the national bike advocacy organization People for Bikes, the Green Lane Project helps and encourages cities to build bold bike infrastructure, focusing on high quality protected bike lanes. So even with its compromises (or perhaps…
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tagged: green lane project, tacks, westlake, westlake cycle track
October 4, 2016

Watch: The Westlake Bikeway makes it on StreetFilms

Westlake has made it to the big leagues: StreetFilms. The New York-based mini-documentary organization led by Clarence Eckerson Jr was in town for the NACTO conference last week, and the call of a long-sought bikeway finally constructed was just too strong. It was a long and often frustrating fight to get this bikeway completed, so…
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tagged: streetfilms, westlake, westlake cycle track
September 23, 2016

Many people get flats from tacks on new Westlake bikeway, could it be intentional?

I have received at least a dozen emails and notes on social media in the past two days from people who say they got flat tires from tacks on the new Westlake bikeway. Evan Bush at the Seattle Times called some area bike shops, who said they’ve been pulling a lot of these tacks from…
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tagged: crime, tacks, westlake, westlake cycle track
September 19, 2016

The Westlake Bikeway is officially open, and it was worth the compromises

The Westlake Bikeway officially opened Thursday, finally creating a flat and separated bike route from the Ship Canal to the city center. “This project is really going to make this corridor safer and more predictable for everyone,” SDOT Director Scott Kubly told the crow gathered in Lake Union Park at the south end of the…
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tagged: ed murray, elizabeth kiker, mike o’brien, scott kubly, tom rasmussen, westlake, westlake cycle track, westlake lawsuit
December 18, 2015

Westlake bikeway construction will happen in phases starting January

The construction crew building out the Westlake Bikeway has outlined their schedule, beginning with phase one in January. For the first six months or so of 2016, construction will happen in four seemingly out-of-order segments in the sprawling parking area as crews significantly modify the planting areas and parking alignments in order to create a…
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tagged: westlake, westlake cycle track