Seattle Bike Blog

Skip ahead to the endorsements: Ballots are hitting mailboxes across Washington State, and Seattle has the opportunity to elect a mayor who is a people-powered champion for biking, walking, transit [...]

Hanoch Yeung calls them one of the new best bike lanes in town." The E Marginal Way bikeway is now open, and Yeung toured them in his latest video for [...]

Staff at both Seattle Parks and SDOT worked together to fully design a series of planned street safety upgrades to Lake Washington Boulevard, including additional speed humps to slow speeding [...]

This summer, E Marginal Way construction crews maintained a separated bikeway coned off while the rest of the street was closed to most car and truck traffic. The street went [...]

When the Port of Seattle initially announced the Terminal 91 Trail bridge removal project back in 2023, they were also planning to widen the Path Narrows" pinch point where the [...]

I'm gonna tell you about an audacious idea that sounds almost impossible, one that is rooted in dreams about symbolic and literal unity of our nation. It is both a [...]

The Interurban Trail will be closed for repairs October 6-10 between 29th Street NW and W Main Street near Emerald Downs, according to King County Parks. The closure is to [...]

When neighbors asked the city to make Lake Washington Boulevard safer for people walking and biking, the city kicked off a half-decade public outreach process that stalled out once Bruce [...]

The skinny trail bridge over a driveway in Interbay that the Port of Seattle has not used for decades is now gone along with the various pinch points it created. [...]

Happy Week Without Driving to all who celebrate! The annual event continues to grow as more and more communities sign up to challenge themselves and their elected and agency leaders [...]

It's great to Hanoch back on the bike shooting footage of the city over at Best Side Cycling. He rode the new bike lanes on 15th Ave S and Beacon [...]

Two major bike connections to Georgetown are opening at the same time, so SDOT is hosting one party for both of them 12-2 p.m. Sunday (September 28) at Mini Mart [...]

Well, we knew this was probably going to happen back in November 2023 when Seattle elected a slate of more conservative candidates for City Council. Even though as candidates most [...]

Seattle Times photographer Kevin Clark captured some great images of people walking and biking across the Foothills Trail bridge of the White River, which is currently the only direct connection [...]

With little fanfare, SDOT announced via social media that the Beacon Hill bike lanes on 15th Ave S and Beacon Ave S are officially open. They represent the most significant [...]

With today's ribbon cutting, the Redmond Central Connector Trail now, well, connects central Redmond to the Eastrail at NE 124th Street and all points beyond. This is the third phase [...]

Seattle's horrific housing crisis continues to destabilize individuals and families who struggle to keep up with rising costs of living. Many continue to get priced out of housing entirely, pushing [...]

Gene Balk, the excellent data journalist over at the Seattle Times, wrote more this week about the car ownership ceiling Seattle seems to have hit back in 2017. From 2010 [...]

It is incredibly lucky that King and Pierce Counties completed the Foothills Trail Bridge over the White River last year because it is now serving as a key lifeline connecting [...]

It's the Tom Flood meme come to life. Bicycles deliver the freedom that auto ads promise." Sunday, a permitted commercial shoot for Rivian shut down a section of Lake Washington [...]

The outpouring of support from BMX and mountain bike riders has saved the decades-old and community-maintained dirt jumps in Lower Woodland Park, a project planner for Seattle Public Schools told [...]

Bob Svercl recently created a video with fancy graphics showing a couple options for the city's planned bike lane to connect the 4th Ave bike lane to Seattle Center near [...]

A short section of the Snoqualmie Valley Trail is closed until October 10 north of Mount Si Golf Course in Snoqualmie. Longtime riders of the trail will be very familiar [...]

My spouse Kelli, seven-year-old child and I woke up Tuesday morning with a plan to get to Lopez Island with our bicycles and camping gear using only public transit. There [...]

The Port of Seattle is making some long-needed changes to the section of the Elliott Bay Trail that travels through the Terminal 91 rail yard in Interbay, including widening pinch [...]

It's time for another weekend closure of the Spokane Street Swing Bridge to West Seattle, and as with other closures in recent years there will be no dedicated detour. The [...]

If you've ever seen someone biking around town pulling a bright yellow or magenta cello case in a bike trailer, you've seen Bradley Hawkins. Even without his cello, he's a [...]

It sounds like the plot of a 1980s cult classic you rented 20 times on VHS from Blockbuster, but it's real. Seattle Parks and Seattle Public Schools are looking for [...]

I am renewing my effort to better cover the monthly meetings of the Seattle Bicycle Advisory Board, starting now. The volunteer board meets at 5:45 p.m. the third Tuesday of [...]

Winning over 50% of the vote in an eight-person primary and beating incumbent Bruce Harrell by nearly 10 percentage points, Katie Wilson is the clear front-runner to win the vote [...]

Kelli didn't want to accept it, but our kid is big enough now to ride her old childhood bicycle. We pulled this 90s mountain bike out of the garage, pumped [...]

SDOT released an early design concept for connecting the 4th Avenue bike lane from its current terminus at Vine Street in Belltown all the way to Thomas Street via Broad [...]

The newly-opened bike lanes on Alaskan Way not only make that stretch of the road safer, they also represent the final piece in a fully-connected waterfront bikeway. As we noted [...]

A Seattle Police officer with a history of preventable traffic collisions ran a stop sign with a flashing red light at the wide-open 8th and Bell intersection, striking a person [...]

The Seattle Bike Blog Shop is the only source for genuine copies of When Driving Is Not An Option that were signed while chilling on Alki Beach. Every copy in [...]

People traveling on Lake Washington Boulevard may notice new white lines near the sides of the road and think that the city finally painted bike lanes on the historic park [...]

SDOT finished up work on the new Alaskan Way bikeway between Myrtle Edwards Park and the Overlook Walk, just in time for Friday's much-awaited opening of the new park and [...]

It's new bike game day! Wheel World by indie gamemaker Messhof was released today (July 23) on PC, PlayStation and XBox. I bought it on Steam for PC. Bicycling video [...]

I-5 rehab work has made the Seattle region's unreliable car driving network even less reliable, and there's still nearly a month to go before it is restored to its usual [...]

The family and I were biking to Alki for a fun in the cloud shade Sunday when we suddenly found ourselves in the middle of a freight caravan hauling hundreds [...]

Your ballot is in the mail for the 2025 primary, and they are due August 5. But summer is super busy, and it is far too easy to lose track [...]

Katie Wilson is a bus-riding mama who gets shit done. She seeks out and fosters genuine community relationships, works with folks to identify problems within city government that are holding [...]

JRA was born in a 6 foot by 20 foot space in Pioneer Square, squeezed next to a stack of downtown commuter bike parking spots and all the bikes people [...]

When Merlin Rainwater led a group of safe streets advocates to create a people-protected bike lane on Pine Street downtown, they finally caught the attention of SDOT leaders and convinced [...]

Construction to build a new biking and walking pathway bridge along NE 85th Street will close a short section of the Cross-Kirkland Corridor trail starting July 18. The closure is [...]

Work to redesign much of Myrtle Edwards Park, including the Elliott Bay Trail, will close access to the park side of the W Thomas Street Overpass bike/walk bridge starting July [...]

Great news for people who like to speed on Lake Washington Boulevard! Seattle Parks will not be installing more speed humps or stop signs, so you're free to continue scaring [...]

After some rocky years, Cascade Bicycle Club's largest annual event is finally back in full form. The club sold more than its target 6,000 Seattle to Portland registrations for the [...]

The Fremont Bridge bike counter is dead. Long live the Fremont Bridge bike counter! The old monolith counted its first bike October 12, 2012. It was a Madsen cargo bike [...]