Tag: wsdot

December 12, 2024

Washington adds another ring to its bike-friendly state rankings dynasty

We don’t use the term “dynasty,” lightly, but the 1960s Boston Celtics have nothing on Washington State’s utter dominance of the bike-friendly state rankings by the League of American Bicyclists. The League announced the 2024 rankings today, and the trophy is coming home to the Evergreen State once again. Since the League started publishing their…
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tagged: league of american bicyclists, wsdot, wsdot active transportation division
November 21, 2024

Bike/walk bridge over SR 520 in Montlake will open Dec 14

The very long-awaited biking and walking bridge over SR 520 in Montlake will finally open with a community celebration 11 a.m. December 14. For the better part of a decade, folks trying to bike through Montlake have been dealing with a variety of different detours, and they’ve been stuck mixing with people on the sidewalk…
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tagged: 520 trail, montlake, sr 520, wsdot
October 11, 2024

Alert 10/11-13: 520 Bridge Trail closed, but biking will still be the best way to get around

The 520 Bridge Trail will be closed across Lake Washington from 11 p.m. tonight (October 11) until 5 a.m. Monday (October 14). There was a bit of confusion about this earlier, but WSDOT has confirmed the closure. Despite this, biking is still going to be the best way to get around town this weekend. I…
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tagged: 520 trail, Bike Route Alert, wsdot
September 13, 2024

WSDOT: Promised e-bike rebate program still far from launching

If you were waiting for Washington State’s rebate program to kick in before buying an e-bike, the state still has a lot of work to do before it is available. When it finally does launch at some undetermined point in the future, the state expects all 8,500 of them to be gobbled up quickly and…
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tagged: climate commitment act, e-bike incentive program, e-bikes, i-2117, wsdot, wsdot active transportation division
August 16, 2024

You did it! WSDOT will not cut the Harvard Connection path to planned Roanoke Lid

The efforts by advocates at Central Seattle Greenways as well as readers like you have paid off. WSDOT announced that they are no longer planning to cut the Harvard Connection path to the planned Roanoke Lid as part of the SR-520 Portage Bay Bridge and Roanoke Lid Project. “Following conversations with legislators, our contractor, project…
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tagged: central seattle greenways, harvard ave e, roanoke lid, sr 520, wsdot
August 14, 2024

Trail connection to planned Roanoke Lid would restore a historic Seattle bike path + Tell WSDOT not to cut it

Not only would the Harvard Ave path connect the Roanoke Lid and 520 Trail along a safer and less steep route, it would also restore a small piece of Seattle’s first ever bike paths. You can support a Central Seattle Greenways effort to protect the proposed path from budget cuts on the freeway megaproject. The…
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tagged: action alerts, central seattle greenways, history, i-5, interlaken, lake union bike path, lake washington bike path, roanoke, roanoke lid, sr 520, wsdot