Seattle Bike Blog

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 [...]

The official 2025 Seattle Bike Map is here, and it illustrates a bike network that is finally coming together in some key places like the downtown waterfront. You can find [...]

Kirkland is working to fix one of the worst missing crossings along the otherwise fantastic northern section of the Eastrail near Totem Lake. There is a trail detour in place [...]

Chuckanut Drive has finally reopened after a major rock slide closed a section of the historic road April 22. Without Chuckanut Drive, biking south from Bellingham to Skagit Valley communities [...]

Getting to the waterfront from Belltown will be much simpler as soon as Friday (June 20) when the Bell Street two-way bikeway opens between Elliott Ave and 1st Ave, where [...]

UPDATE: See update below for some troubling additional comments from CM Saka, including him blaming a war on cars." Original story: Curby is not going anywhere. This little center line [...]

The 2025 Fremont Solstice Parade is Saturday (June 21). Is this the year you finally join the painted masses? To join the ride, all you gotta do is arrive on [...]

Part of the city's regular maintenance duty is to refresh the paint on about 1,000 crosswalks all over the city with the goal of retouching every crosswalk about every four [...]

UPDATE: The kid and I joined Thursday's ride. On a global news day as stressful as today, I really needed a bike ride and some positive community energy. So thanks [...]

Both citywide City Council seats are up for grabs this year, and the recent housing and transportation candidate forum combined candidates for both races into a single panel. Hosted by [...]

The Seattle Bike Blog Shop keeps growing. I am very excited by the two newest additions as well as some others that are on the way. If you are a [...]

All four of the candidates for Seattle's open District 2 City Council seat attended this week's forum on transportation and housing issues, hosted by a wide coalition of organizations and [...]

The bicycle is one of the most versatile vehicles in the world because it runs efficiently on an extremely wide variety of fuel types. Beer, burritos, candy bars. Among the [...]

SDOT will close the Spokane Street Swing Bridge (the lower West Seattle Bridge) June 7 and 8 to reinstall one of the key components in the mechanism that allows the [...]

The Seattle Bike Blog online shop is expanding! Now you can get more than just copies of Biking Uphill in the Rain. I will be slowly adding Seattle-associated bike stuff [...]

Kudos to the Friends of the Burke-Gilman Trail, the Green Seattle Partnership and Seattle Parks for the work they have put into creating a pollinator path" along the Burke-Gilman Trail [...]

Look, folks, that gravel is not going to grind itself. Two major rides will take to the Palouse to Cascades Trail this summer: The annual Summit 2 Sound by Peace [...]

People who bike and walk to work are way happier with their commutes than everyone else, and it's not even close. This is one of the findings from Commute Seattle's [...]

You know that street where car traffic feels more uncomfortable because people tend to pass you too closely? You're not imagining things, it really is more dangerous, new research suggests. A UW research team has developed a cost-effective way to collect on-the-ground data to help identify streets where close passing is common, and after two [...]

Are you ready to take action to improve the streets in your neighborhood for everyone, but don't know where to start? Seattle Neighborhood Greenways is hosting a Volunteer Organizing Symposium from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday (May 17) at Seattle Central College on Capitol Hill. The symposium is free to attend, though donations are [...]

My kid initially wanted to take the school bus this morning, but then I told her it was Bike Everywhere Day and she lit up and decided to bike instead. It was a tiny bit drizzly, so I asked her if she still wanted to bike even if it was a little rainy, and she [...]

Bike Inclusion Day is Saturday (May 17), and Outdoors for All is celebrating with a day of adaptive cycling, group rides and games from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Magnuson Park. If you for any reason cannot (or find it difficult to) ride a standard bicycle, Outdoors for All has got you covered. Whether [...]

We are so back. Seattle set an all-time record for the most bike trips across the Fremont Bridge during the month of April with 95,742, a remarkable 17% above the pre-2020 average. 2025 is also the first year since 2020 to record more than a quarter million trips across the bridge by the end of [...]

Bike Everywhere Day (formerly Bike to Work Day) is May 14, which puts it on a Wednesday this year rather than Friday as it had been for a long time. This is a response to trends toward more people working from home on Fridays or working four 10-hour days and taking Fridays off (or working [...]

New trail connections around the soon-to-open Redmond light rail stations have dramatically improved bike access into the eastside city center, shaving as much as ten minutes off many bike trips. Sure, the train stations opening Saturday will get most the attention, but I rode the new trail connections and am here to report that they [...]

It's the most joyful school drop off of the year! Seattle kids are celebrating Bike to School Day today, and the bike cage at my kid's school was packed even more than usual. Biking to school for us requires two blocks of climbing that is steep enough to give the kiddo trouble. Or at least, [...]

I'll be taking my bike on the train Thursday (May 8) to give a talk at Olympia Timberland Library. Join me! The event starts at 6:30, and I'm bringing a presentation full of historic images and stories that didn't make the final text. I'll also have copies and stickers available for sale and will happily [...]

People biking in S Dearborn Street's protected bike lanes were surprised last week to see the concrete barriers missing as the street passes under the Dr. Jose Rizal Bridge. Some riders even reported the bike lanes fully closed, requiring them to bike in mixed traffic on the wide and fast street. Workers are not there [...]

Seattle has a new bike bridge across Lake Union Park's Missing Path Bog to kick off Bike Month. Well, bridge" is perhaps a generous term, but the mysteriously-installed wood planks do provide a bikeable way to cross the sunken and muddy gap between two paved paths along a popular biking and walking route that connects [...]

Seattle Parks will again host 10 car-free Bicycle Weekends on Lake Washington Boulevard this summer. The schedule and route are very similar to recent years, and the first event is May 17-18. One difference is that Labor Day weekend is not included in the 2025 schedule. In 2024, the Saturday and Sunday of Labor Day [...]

UPDATE: More than a dozen people showed up to form a human-protected" bike lane on Pine Street at 4th Avenue to demonstrate the need to physical protection for the bike lane at the intersection. SDOT's Interim Director Adiam Emery and City Councilmember Dan Strauss attended as well to learn about the issues at the intersection [...]

Defend Seattle's car-horn-free culture in the most passive-aggressive way possible: A sticker that says, Real Seattleites Don't Honk." Now available only from the Seattle Bike Blog shop. If you for any reason want to make a bulk order, email me to discuss a bulk discount. This is just one of several new additions to the [...]

The Foothill Trail is on schedule to reopen across Spiketon Ditch in early summer, about one and a half years after Pierce County declared it an emergency closed it following a very concerning inspection. Inspectors determined that the bridge was barely holding its own weight and was at risk of collapse. Pierce County Parks said [...]

Last week was spring break for Seattle Public Schools, so we went on a family trip to south Whidbey Island. This was our first time traveling there since the Lynnwood light rail station opened, so my spouse Kelli, our first grader, and I decided to test out the new and improved transit connection from Seattle [...]

Katie Wilson is running for Seattle mayor. She is almost certain to raise less campaign money than incumbent Bruce Harrell, who is hoping to be the first Seattle mayor to win a second term since Greg Nickels won reelection 20 years ago. The previous two more lefty challengers for mayor got creamed with Cary Moon [...]