Seattle Bike Blog

In 2015, Seattle gave itself 15 years to reduce traffic deaths and serious injuries to zero. With four years left, the city is not on track to meet this goal. [...]

It's the best thing. HeapRide is a roving group ride and dance performance inspired by and utilizing bicycles. I was invited to a press preview of Heap's upcoming series of [...]

Portions of Lake Washington Boulevard will go car-free nearly every weekend this summer from Memorial Day to Labor Day including extended weekends for three holidays, Mayor Katie Wilson announced Monday. [...]

A reader reached out the other day asking why the PDF version of the official Seattle bike map was no longer on the SDOT website. The kind of ugly interactive [...]

This one is a bit rough. The East Lake Sammamish Trail and adjacent roadways will all be closed starting as early as May 2026 and lasting through the rest of [...]

Last year, WSDOT doled out the entire first year of e-bike rebates in one big springtime lottery, but the agency has revamped the WE-Bike" program to meter out the rebates [...]

Much like the late March closure, the Elliott Bay Trail in Myrtle Edwards and Centennial Parks will be closed overnight as early as" April 6 and then again April 13, [...]

In our original post about the new Yesler Way bike connection, I noted that something seemed off about the revamped 1st and Yesler signal: The walk signal showed a Don't [...]

It was very cool of Sound Transit to build an entire light rail station dedicated to serving the Judkins Park bike polo grounds. On Sunday, with the crowds finally calm [...]

UPDATE 4/2: See our latest post about the confusion around the 1st and Yesler intersection. SDOT removed a turn restriction late in the process (after 100% design"), so they are [...]

Surely you would just take the train to the opening of 2-Line service across Lake Washington, right? Well, yeah, that does make some sense. But if you want to catch [...]

In response to pushback on SDOT's first two options for a safety project on Highland Park Way SW, staff have developed a third option that preserves both the bike lane [...]

All overnight trail access will be closed through Myrtle Edwards and Centennial Parks March 30 and 31, according to a notice from the Elliott Bay Connections team that SDOT posted [...]

Just as an organized group of neighbors finally convinced SDOT, Seattle Parks, Seattle City Light and WSDOT to figure out how to get the lights working after two years of [...]

There are many advantages to having a metro rail system that is completely grade-separated (either elevated or underground but never at shared street level). It never has to stop for [...]

Bike Works is turning 30. Registrations are open for two very different Bike Works annual events: Their whimsical Tour de Fleurs alleycat around South Seattle and their exceptionally fun fundraiser [...]

Bike advocates in Washington State won a bit this legislative session while also avoiding funding cuts and the kinds of anti-bicycle laws under consideration this year in other states. Preserving [...]

Tonight (March 13), MOHAI is hosting a screening of the Edward Norton-narrated PBS documentary From Rails to Trails at their South Lake Union museum. From 6-7 you can check out [...]

People biking between Georgetown and downtown were surprised yesterday to find construction crews tearing up the concrete barrier protected the bike lane on Airport Way S between S Alaska Street [...]

It was a lovely evening, and my kid was with a babysitter. Kelli and I were biking happily along, when someone flung their door wide open just before I got [...]

The City of Bellevue has released a plan to reduce the speed limits on nearly every city street where limits are currently higher than 25. Most streets would see their [...]

Seattle Neighborhood Greenways is now the Seattle Streets Alliance. It's a better explanation of who we are and what we're about," said Streets Alliance Executive Director Gordon Padelford. It's true. [...]

Nick Magruder is a self-described bike mechanic turned internet mechanic" who dedicated his free time to create a tool to help people conceptualize and ingrain the true scale of the [...]

The Washington State House Transportation Committee unanimously approved an amended version of Senate Bill 6110 - 2025-26 that does not include a legal definition for electric motorcycles" nor does it [...]

Crews are already working on some underground utilities needed to build two key blocks of missing bike lane on Yesler Way between the Waterfront bikeway and the rest of the [...]

The 42nd Annual Ride Around Mount Rainier in One Day (RAMROD) will not happen in 2026, organizers announced. They were unable to work out an agreement with Mount Rainier National [...]

The short walled-in section of the waterfront bikeway between the Overlook Walk and Alaskan Way will be closed starting as early as today (February 25) for two weeks as crews [...]

So far, the legislature has heard from bike and trail organizations as well as cities and engaged high school students about the problems caused by the proliferation of high-powered electric [...]

Lime riders took more than 57,000 trips February 11, the day of the Seahawks parade downtown. After adding Bird's 2,100 rides, the 59,300 total of shared bike and scooter rides [...]

As part of ongoing work to make road and other infrastructure repairs following this winter's intense flooding and rainfall, the Snoqualmie Valley Trail will be closed to walking and biking [...]

If you were planning to bike with your sweetie to make out by the Sri Chinmoy statue in Fremont on Valentine's Day, I'm afraid I have bad news for you. [...]

The Seahawks parade will go up 4th Ave from Washington Street in Pioneer Square to Cedar Street near Seattle Center Wednesday starting at 11 a.m. The last time the Seahawks [...]

My favorite Cascade Bicycle Club event is back after a hiatus in 2025. The 2026 Emerald City Ride will start in Pioneer Square early on Saturday, April 25. The route [...]

Our city has lost one of its greatest people. Beau Morton died Friday. He was born with a rare and deadly disease that chased him for nearly half a century, [...]

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 [...]