Cascade lists their 5 top-priority Seattle bike projects
Cascade Bicycle Club recently posted their top 5 Seattle bike improvement priorities, though it's really more like like 4 projects and a citywide plan.
They go into more detail about each in their blog post, so go check it out. Here's the list:
- Georgetown to Downtown Bike Connection
- West Marginal Way Bike Connection
- Seattle Waterfront Bike Connection
- Burke-Gilman Missing Link
- Seattle Transportation Plan
Two of the spots are in industrial districts, which have seen far more than their share of bicycle injuries and deaths. Until now, safe streets improvements in Seattle have largely ignored the industrial areas, but that was a terrible mistake. People like in and bike through SoDo and the Duwamish Valley, and they need to have a safe place to do so. We can't change the past, but we can make safe industrial areas a priority now. (Note: I updated this section 8/25 to clarify location names as noted in the comments.)
It's sad that the waterfront bike connection needs to be on this list, but it does. I cannot believe the city is going make advocates fight for a safe and direct bike lane to connect the existing Elliott Bay Trail with the under-construction waterfront bikeway. It is so obviously in everyone's best interest for this bike route to be connected in a safe and direct manor that it really shouldn't have to be said. Yet here we are.
No more words need to be said about the Missing Link, but they gotta stay on it until it is finally completed.
The Seattle Transportation Plan is not exactly a project, but it's very important that the final plan reflects the people's vision of a safer, more equitable and more sustainable Seattle.
What would your top 5 list look like?