Seattle Bike Blog

At least 10 communities across Washington State will answer the call to ride in honor of Alex Pretti, the VA nurse and bicycle adventurer federal agents murdered in Minneapolis. Critical [...]

Ty Addison Curtis from Puyallup was biking near McKenna just east of the Nisqually River in south Pierce County when a person driving struck and killed him January 22. He [...]

SDOT will begin work in the spring to complete the north end of the 4th Avenue protected bike lane, extending it from its terminus at Vine Street to Seattle Center [...]

After news out of New Jersey broke this week that their outgoing governor Phil Murphy signed a law to recategorize all electric bicycles as motorized vehicles - complete with driver's [...]

Rad Power Bikes' retail store in Huntington Beach, California, caught fire January 18. The store was closed at the time, and nobody was injured. Rad confirmed that there was a [...]

Panic is the appropriate response to the passage and signing of a new law in New Jersey that requires all e-bike riders 17 and older to have driver's licenses, registration [...]

Housed in a small building in the middle of an industrial parking lot just off the Burke-Gilman Trail, Cycle & Coffee (AKA PIM" for Power In Motion") has been fixing [...]

A new bill in the Washington State House would make a number of changes to the statewide e-bike and motorcycle laws in an attempt to address the growing problem of [...]

Editor's note: This is an op-ed by Anna Zivarts, a visually impaired Seattle parent who is a co-leader of the Transportation and Environment subcommittee for Mayor Katie Wilson's transition team [...]

Friends and supporters of Alley Rodriguez have shut down traffic at the intersection of S Stevens Street and Beacon Avenue S multiple times since Rodriguez was struck and killed by [...]

The Washington State legislative session starts Monday amid a significant budget crunch and only 60 days to figure it all out. Ahead of the session, Washington Bikes released this short [...]

With the elections of Eddie Lin and Dionne Foster as well as the reelection of Alexis Mercedes Rinck, the new Seattle City Council is taking shape. Amid all the other [...]

SDOT delivered a huge number of bike lane projects in 2025. Many of them were the result of a late push by SDOT to deliver as many projects promised to [...]

Yesterday, I took a Lime scooter to U District Station, then took light rail to Mountlake Terrace, then back to the U District several hours later, and it only cost [...]

Lime's newest pricing scheme makes it far more cost-effective for regular users to use their bikes and scooters for short trips, making the service much more useful as an everyday [...]

With Mayor-elect Katie Wilson less than two weeks from assuming office, we are already seeing signs of change within SDOT leadership. Interim Director Adiam Emery will not continue in that [...]

A good news update out of the region's flooding disaster: Two Foothill Trail bridges that inspectors were worried about have been cleared to reopen. When Pierce County Parks announced earlier [...]

Seattle-based Rad Power Bikes filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Monday, three weeks after the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC") issued a product safety warning urging anyone with certain models [...]

Western Washington mountain bikers are of well-accustomed to riding in soggy conditions, so many riders are surely itching to get out on the trails. But the recent rains across the [...]

The Desimone Levee has failed between S 180th and 190s Streets, triggering an emergency GO NOW" evacuation order from King County. UPDATE 10pm: The area under the GO NOW order [...]

A hit-and-run driver struck and 38-year-old person biking on Beacon Hill shortly after midnight Sunday morning, according to the Seattle Police Department. The suspect fled the scene and is still [...]

UPDATE 12/18: The bridges are OK! Read our update. Original story: As expected, we have more concerning trail news to share as flood waters finally start to recede at least [...]

The extreme rainfall this week has triggered washouts and landslides that have damaged the Palouse to Cascades Trail. WSDOT posted a photo of a significant slide that has destroyed at [...]

The huge amount of rainfall across the region in recent days has sent several rivers into flood stages, including the Cedar, Green, Snoqualmie, South Fork Skykomish, Tolt and White Rivers [...]

Which lunchtime foods pair best with which type of bicycle? You may never have considered this question before, but that tells me that you need to buy a copy of [...]

Link Light Rail is getting three new stations in South King County Saturday! While you might think that riding the train to those new train stations would be the most [...]

The pitch is great: Let's take a car culture waste product that would otherwise be burned and instead turn it into a barrier to protect the lives of people biking. [...]

Seattle was the first major and lasting launch city for Lime back in July 2017, and the city has continued to be one of the company's strongest markets globally. In [...]

Tomorrow (November 26) is Marshall Major" Taylor's birthday, and to celebrate we have a limited number of copies of his fascinating 1928 autobiography for sale in the Seattle Bike Blog [...]

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC") has issued a product safety warning" urging anyone with a Rad Power Bikes battery model HL-RP-S1304 or RP-1304 to immediately cease using it [...]

With food insecurity issues getting national attention, I had a feeling Seattle's 16th Annual Cranksgiving could attract more people than usual. But I can still hardly believe the final totals [...]

Seattle has revolutionized biking to and from Georgetown this year, opening quality bike lanes and paths from the neighborhood north to Stadium Station and south to the South Park Bridge. [...]

The Georgetown to Downtown Safety Project officially opened in September, and it is a massive improvement for bikeability through the Industrial District. However, it does have one glaring problem: It [...]

Seattle, we are entering uncharted territory. We have not had a mayor like Katie Wilson in recent memory if ever. She is a genuine community organizer who challenged a seemingly-invincible [...]

A great city like Seattle should never have anything to hide from its people. That's why one of the best things city government can do to earn the public's trust [...]

I am writing this post before King County Elections releases the November 11 ballot count, so the result of the Seattle mayoral election is still unknown. It has been torture [...]

Seattle-based e-bike giant Rad Power Bikes has filed official notice to Washington State as well as the company's 64 Washington employees that the company could end operations as early as [...]

The Seattle Times reports that the garden and walkways across the Ballard Locks will remain open and the locks will remain operational while the visitor center, salmon viewing area and [...]

Tom Babin from the excellent Calgarian YouTube channel Shifter was in town for Cascade Bicycle Club's annual Ride from Seattle to Vancouver and Party (RSVP"), and I had the pleasure [...]

I've been writing this blog since 2010, and nearly every year I have a post about biking in dark and rainy weather. Yet it took me until just a couple [...]

It may be too late to rely on the post office to mail your ballot ahead of the November 4 election, so anyone with a ballot still lying around should [...]

King County Parks is fixing a section of pavement on the Sammamish River Trail between NE 178th and NE 175th Streets in Woodinville, so expect intermittent" closures between November 3 [...]

The 16th Annual Seattle Cranksgiving is November 22, but it could be unlike any that came before it. Join us for a day of fun, bikes and community support! Anyone [...]

Inspectors found significant rot" and closed a small bridge on the Snoqualmie Valley Trail south of Duvall about halfway between NE 138th and 124th Streets. King County Parks immediately closed [...]

Editor's Note: Seattle Bike Blog has enthusiastically endorsed Katie Wilson for Seattle Mayor, and we wrote in a recent roundup of advocacy organization endorsements that WA Bikes snubs several bike [...]

After more than 13 years of advocacy, the longest forested mountain bike trail within Seattle city limits will officially open Saturday (October 25). The mile-long Trillium Loop in Cheasty Greenspace [...]

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 [...]