Seattle Bike Blog

Our family went bike camping on Lopez Island Sunday to Wednesday, and it was amazing as always. Word definitely seems to have gotten out, and even on a Sunday the number of people biking off the ferry was amazing. A teen was going on a bike camping trip with friends to celebrate his 18th birthday, [...]

A very bumpy section of the Ship Canal Trail along W Emerson St near Fisherman's Terminal is getting fixed. Luckily, there's a fairly easy detour on the north side of the street, though it does require crossing at the 19th Ave W signal. Expect the detour starting tomorrow (August 27) through August 31. More details [...]

In 86 dense pages of the state's draft Freight System Plan, there are zero mentions of walking or biking and, therefore, few specifics on how the state's freight system will work toward the state's goal of eliminating serious or fatal collisions involving people on foot or bike. WSDOT is collecting feedback on the draft plan [...]

In one of the biggest overhauls of Seattle's approach to making streets safer, Mayor Katie Wilson signed five executive orders (PDF) to speed up delivery of safety fixes and expand the city's safe streets strategies. The mayor announced and signed the orders in front of Cleveland High School flanked by Councilmembers Eddie Lin and Alexis [...]

If you saw a bunch of signs warning about a Spokane Street Swing Bridge closure this weekend, that is only for motor vehicles. The biking and walking path will remain open and usable. Unlike many previous closures, this one actually has nothing to do with the bridge's unreliable swing mechanism. Instead it is to fix [...]

If biking and swimming are your thing, then the Seattle Bike Disco has a ride for you. The evening time group ride is hopping from swimming spot to swimming spot Friday night, and you're invited. Put on a swimsuit and bike to Occidental Square by 7 p.m. Friday (August 21).

Proposed ordinances would rewrite sections of Seattle's code to give the City Traffic Engineer more direct authority and responsibility to make safe streets changes. They would also grant emergency authority" to the Traffic Engineer to expedite safety fixes in locations with imminent risks," presumably including locations where a serious or fatal collision has occurred. City [...]

I saw the eclipse in Iceland! Well, OK, saw" might not be the most accurate description. It was very cloudy and rainy. But it got really dark, which was cool. Then Bjork did a DJ set wearing a dress made out of balloons. Our trip took us to Glasgow, then to Edinburgh for the Fringe [...]

People took more bike and scooter trips across the Fremont Bridge in July than in any month ever in the city's history, and it wasn't even close. The 153,238 trips was near 11,000 trips more than the previous high-water mark set in August 2019, and total counts for 2026 through July are up more than [...]

The 2-Line will connect two big open streets parties Saturday, so clear your schedule and plan for a day of biking and dancing in the streets. The annual Move Redmond Open Streets Festival goes from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and the lineup includes a performance by the bicycle-inspired troupe Heap. Eastside Urbanism will also [...]

I'm in Glasgow and stumbled upon what the Riverside Museum claims to be possibly the oldest bicycle in the world, an invention of Gavin Dalzell. If nothing else, they seem quite certain it is the oldest surviving bicycle. They didn't let me ride it and were unmoved by my insistence that I am a genuine [...]

SDOT is standing by its reworked design for a new downhill protected bike lane on Highland Park Way SW. But the biggest improvement should be to the safety of people inside cars. The project is planned for construction as soon as February 2027," according to the project webpage. Highland Park Way is a long, steep [...]

The 51-year-old woman who died Tuesday after colliding with a gate on the 1st Avenue South Bridge has been identified as Janine Cross. Our condolences to her friends and family. Janine was riding a Letric XPLite northbound in the biking and walking path of the bridge shortly before noon when she struck the bridge gate," [...]

Summer on Lake Washington Boulevard keeps getting better. Not only are there Bicycle Weekends every non-SeaFair weekend, but a coalition of community groups are getting together to host the first Lake WA Blvd Bash, a free festival of music and food in the middle of the historic car-free route. From noon to 7 p.m. August [...]

Though one cannot expect a policy out of the Trump Administration to be based in reality, it is still important to push against their firehose of awful ideas. The corrupt former mid-level reality TV personality cosplaying as Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy recently posted that USDOT would be directing funding away from DEI bike lanes," whatever [...]

What if there were something like a ski lift that you could use to carry your bike to the top of Seattle's hills? There is! And with this new durable, glossy and high-quality sticker from the Seattle Bike Blog shop, you can turn your boring old ORCA card into a bicycle lift pass to the [...]

Jonny Nelson from Chicago biked around Seattle recently, and good grief it seems like he had a stinking great time. It's always interesting to see your own city through the eyes of someone who doesn't know much about the city. Despite encountering the Burke-Gilman Trail Missing Link very early in his adventure, he still had [...]

Registered voters with up-to-date addresses should have received their 2026 primary ballots in the mail (or should receive one very soon). Below you will find a roundup of which candidates have earned endorsements from three respected organizations that care about bicycling and safe streets: The Transit Riders Union (TRU), the Urbanist (URB) and Washington Bikes [...]

King County Parks has launched a new public awareness campaign to emphasize that while Class 1 and 2 e-bikes and electric foot scooters are allowed on county shared use trails, motorcycles (gas or electric), mopeds, ATVs and Class 3 e-bikes are not allowed. Basically, if it has a gas motor of any kind or an [...]

A few weeks ago, I walked the route of Councilmember Dan Strauss's proposed trail along Leary Avenue NW and NW Market Street with a group of dedicated walking and biking advocates from Ballard-Fremont Green Streets and Cascade Bicycle Club. We had a printout of the recently-released 60% design to reference as well as a measuring [...]

A 14-year-old boy died Tuesday while riding an electric motorcycle in the I-5 Colonnade mountain bike park, Capitol Hill Seattle reported. Our condolences to his friends and family. UPDATE 7/10: The King County Medical Examiner has identified the child as Cnar Doan. A memorial is growing on a landing near the bottom of the Howe [...]

Another half decade of Missing Link court battling may have been completely wasted after the Washington State Court of Appeals delivered a devastating blow to the city's 2021 attempt to bypass environmental review by building a skinnier trail to connect the Burke-Gilman Trail from 11th Ave NW to the Ballard Locks. The court smacked down [...]

The Seattle Streets Alliance has published an action alert urging Seattle to take three actions to improve street safety, two specific interventions and one systemic change. Supporters can sign on to the ideas and send letters to city leaders. Daylight every intersection SDOT touches The group is calling for SDOT to daylight every intersection they [...]

Lime set a huge new ridership record the day of the U.S. World Cup match against Australia by carrying 84K trips on its bikes and scooters. If Lime were a roadway, it would be tied with the 1st Avenue South Bridge for the third-busiest highway in Seattle behind only I-5 (195K main deck plus 40K [...]

A bombshell investigation in the New York Times goes deep into the ways that taller hoods and wider A-pillars in American SUV and pickup trucks both block drivers' ability to see people walking and inflict more deadly injuries when collisions occur. After significant statistical analysis, the authors conclude that at least 3,000 people killed between [...]

The 2026 Fremont Solstice Parade is Saturday (June 20). You can be part of the city's annual explosion of art and self-expression. All you need is some body paint, a bicycle and courage. To join the ride, be at Gas Works Park all painted and ready to ride by 12:30 sharp. From there, volunteers painted [...]

After a decade hiatus, the Seattle Disaster Relief Trials are set to return July 25 with Cal Anderson Park as the start and end point. One of the most unique and fun bike events, the DRT is a simulation of a natural disaster like a major earthquake. Normal communications are knocked out and roads are [...]

Last year, Seattle spent less than 50% of the bicycle safety program funding that voters approved in 2024, and Cascade Bicycle Club is urging Mayor Katie Wilson and SDOT Interim Director Angela Brady to show urgency by spending the dollars allocated" to make streets safer. Cascade's letter came after the death of Christian Salyer on [...]

UPDATE 6/16: The woman has been identified as Maridee BonaDea. She was 76. BonaDea was a member of the Rainbow Riders bicycling group according to some friends who were mourning at the site today, West Seattle Blog reported. A web search reveals a deep trove of LGBTQ+ activism, and she was once featured as a [...]

The big December 2025 atmospheric river washed out several sections of the Palouse to Cascades (PTC") Trail, and the worst damage came from a major slide that essentially removed the ground under an 85-foot section of the trail near the Mount Washington Trailhead a bit more than five miles east of the trail's start near [...]

The BMX dirt jumps have been officially saved after Seattle Public Schools abandoned its plans to build a football field next to the soccer field in Lower Woodland Park. In a letter to the Lincoln High School community, SPS Superintendent Ben Shuldiner said the district will build a new football/soccer field on a gravel lot [...]

A proposed spending plan for a 0.1% sales tax across King County would artificially limit the share of the funding that the City of Seattle would receive, distributing Seattle's share to other cities including some of the wealthiest suburban cities in the nation. Ryan Packer at the The Urbanist has reported extensively on this sales [...]

Editor's Note: This post was sponsored and reviewed by King County Metro. This is Seattle Bike Blog's first ever sponsored post. We are very picky about who we partner with [...]

For more than a year, hundreds if not thousands of people have used a couple wood planks every day to cross a ten-foot gap in the path between Lake Union [...]

A Recology recycling truck driver struck Christian Salyer while he was biking on 12th Ave at Yesler Way Monday evening, and Capitol Hill Seattle reports that he has died. He [...]

Didn't win the Washington State e-bike rebate lottery yet? If you live in Bellevue, Issaquah or Redmond, you have another more generous opportunity to score some financial help when buying [...]

The revamped and billionaire-funded Myrtle Edwards and Centennial Parks and Elliott Bay Trail will open 7 a.m. Thursday (June 4) following more than 10 months of construction and walk/bike detours. [...]

Have you ridden a bike in Seattle lately? Whether a short trip to the park with your kids, a longer commute, community events or a trip to the brewery, more [...]

RAMROD is not dead, but it's not happening in 2026. So the Redmond Cycling Club is putting their time into launching a new round-trip ride from Enumclaw to Mowich Lake [...]

Hundreds of people biked with Mayor Katie Wilson to the opening celebration for the first Bicycle Weekend of 2026 Saturday. It was the mayor's first bike ride as mayor, she [...]

Spending on safety isn't making Seattle streets less hazardous" This unequivocal headline in the Seattle Times is completely false. The op-ed it is attached to uses a very misleading analysis [...]

At least 659 people died in traffic collisions in Washington State in 2025, a shockingly large number that is made even more shocking when considering that it was the lowest [...]

With a new name for their quinceanera, the Seattle Streets Alliance (formerly Seattle Neighborhood Greenways) is throwing a street party on Capitol Hill June 6, and you're invited. It's free [...]

The new bike lanes on 4th Avenue are now open, providing a protected bike route directly from the downtown core to the Space Needle. Though the bike lanes on Broad [...]

Last summer, Mayor Bruce Harrell's office abruptly cancelled phase 3 of the Lake Washington Boulevard safety project, which included additional speed humps to calm traffic along the park boulevard as [...]

As will be officially proclaimed at City Hall Tuesday afternoon (2 p.m., a group ride leaves UW at 12:45), May is Bike Everywhere Month in Seattle! However, judging by the [...]

Lime has launched 500 new LimeBikes" in Seattle, a new model with smaller wheels and a lower center of gravity compared to the company's existing Gen 4 E-Bike," resulting in [...]

It was shorts-and-gloves weather this morning for Bike to School Day 2026, one of the happiest mornings of the year. The kiddo and I practiced paying attention to movement in [...]

People biking across the Fremont Bridge just smashed the all-time April record by 8%. Something big is happening in Seattle bicycling right now, and we need to talk about it. [...]

People took more than one million bike and scooter trips across the Fremont Bridge in 2025, the first calendar year to top the million mark since the COVID pandemic. But [...]