Seattle Bike Blog

The Seattle Streets Alliance has published an action alert urging Seattle to take three actions to improve street safety, two specific interventions and one systemic change. Supporters can sign on to the ideas and send letters to city leaders. Daylight every intersection SDOT touches The group is calling for SDOT to daylight every intersection they [...]

Lime set a huge new ridership record the day of the U.S. World Cup match against Australia by carrying 84K trips on its bikes and scooters. If Lime were a roadway, it would be tied with the 1st Avenue South Bridge for the third-busiest highway in Seattle behind only I-5 (195K main deck plus 40K [...]

A bombshell investigation in the New York Times goes deep into the ways that taller hoods and wider A-pillars in American SUV and pickup trucks both block drivers' ability to see people walking and inflict more deadly injuries when collisions occur. After significant statistical analysis, the authors conclude that at least 3,000 people killed between [...]

The 2026 Fremont Solstice Parade is Saturday (June 20). You can be part of the city's annual explosion of art and self-expression. All you need is some body paint, a bicycle and courage. To join the ride, be at Gas Works Park all painted and ready to ride by 12:30 sharp. From there, volunteers painted [...]

After a decade hiatus, the Seattle Disaster Relief Trials are set to return July 25 with Cal Anderson Park as the start and end point. One of the most unique and fun bike events, the DRT is a simulation of a natural disaster like a major earthquake. Normal communications are knocked out and roads are [...]

Last year, Seattle spent less than 50% of the bicycle safety program funding that voters approved in 2024, and Cascade Bicycle Club is urging Mayor Katie Wilson and SDOT Interim Director Angela Brady to show urgency by spending the dollars allocated" to make streets safer. Cascade's letter came after the death of Christian Salyer on [...]

UPDATE 6/16: The woman has been identified as Maridee BonaDea. She was 76. BonaDea was a member of the Rainbow Riders bicycling group according to some friends who were mourning at the site today, West Seattle Blog reported. A web search reveals a deep trove of LGBTQ+ activism, and she was once featured as a [...]

The big December 2025 atmospheric river washed out several sections of the Palouse to Cascades (PTC") Trail, and the worst damage came from a major slide that essentially removed the ground under an 85-foot section of the trail near the Mount Washington Trailhead a bit more than five miles east of the trail's start near [...]

The BMX dirt jumps have been officially saved after Seattle Public Schools abandoned its plans to build a football field next to the soccer field in Lower Woodland Park. In a letter to the Lincoln High School community, SPS Superintendent Ben Shuldiner said the district will build a new football/soccer field on a gravel lot [...]

A proposed spending plan for a 0.1% sales tax across King County would artificially limit the share of the funding that the City of Seattle would receive, distributing Seattle's share to other cities including some of the wealthiest suburban cities in the nation. Ryan Packer at the The Urbanist has reported extensively on this sales [...]

Editor's Note: This post was sponsored and reviewed by King County Metro. This is Seattle Bike Blog's first ever sponsored post. We are very picky about who we partner with [...]

For more than a year, hundreds if not thousands of people have used a couple wood planks every day to cross a ten-foot gap in the path between Lake Union [...]

A Recology recycling truck driver struck Christian Salyer while he was biking on 12th Ave at Yesler Way Monday evening, and Capitol Hill Seattle reports that he has died. He [...]

Didn't win the Washington State e-bike rebate lottery yet? If you live in Bellevue, Issaquah or Redmond, you have another more generous opportunity to score some financial help when buying [...]

The revamped and billionaire-funded Myrtle Edwards and Centennial Parks and Elliott Bay Trail will open 7 a.m. Thursday (June 4) following more than 10 months of construction and walk/bike detours. [...]

Have you ridden a bike in Seattle lately? Whether a short trip to the park with your kids, a longer commute, community events or a trip to the brewery, more [...]

RAMROD is not dead, but it's not happening in 2026. So the Redmond Cycling Club is putting their time into launching a new round-trip ride from Enumclaw to Mowich Lake [...]

Hundreds of people biked with Mayor Katie Wilson to the opening celebration for the first Bicycle Weekend of 2026 Saturday. It was the mayor's first bike ride as mayor, she [...]

Spending on safety isn't making Seattle streets less hazardous" This unequivocal headline in the Seattle Times is completely false. The op-ed it is attached to uses a very misleading analysis [...]

At least 659 people died in traffic collisions in Washington State in 2025, a shockingly large number that is made even more shocking when considering that it was the lowest [...]

With a new name for their quinceanera, the Seattle Streets Alliance (formerly Seattle Neighborhood Greenways) is throwing a street party on Capitol Hill June 6, and you're invited. It's free [...]

The new bike lanes on 4th Avenue are now open, providing a protected bike route directly from the downtown core to the Space Needle. Though the bike lanes on Broad [...]

Last summer, Mayor Bruce Harrell's office abruptly cancelled phase 3 of the Lake Washington Boulevard safety project, which included additional speed humps to calm traffic along the park boulevard as [...]

As will be officially proclaimed at City Hall Tuesday afternoon (2 p.m., a group ride leaves UW at 12:45), May is Bike Everywhere Month in Seattle! However, judging by the [...]

Lime has launched 500 new LimeBikes" in Seattle, a new model with smaller wheels and a lower center of gravity compared to the company's existing Gen 4 E-Bike," resulting in [...]

It was shorts-and-gloves weather this morning for Bike to School Day 2026, one of the happiest mornings of the year. The kiddo and I practiced paying attention to movement in [...]

People biking across the Fremont Bridge just smashed the all-time April record by 8%. Something big is happening in Seattle bicycling right now, and we need to talk about it. [...]

People took more than one million bike and scooter trips across the Fremont Bridge in 2025, the first calendar year to top the million mark since the COVID pandemic. But [...]

In response to Mayor Katie Wilson's announcement expanding the Bicycle Weekends program to nearly every weekend from Memorial Day to Labor Day, Rainier Valley Safe Streets is now planning a [...]

We once called it one of the worst missing crossings" on the whole Eastrail. Well, no more! The City of Kirkland opened the new signalized trail crossing at Slater Ave [...]

Well, it's been a while since anyone tried to non-jokingly cry War on cars!" in Seattle. We declared the meme dead 15 years ago, and a very popular podcast has [...]

Seattle's newest bikeway trail is wide, smooth, flat and has very few points of conflict, a set of rare characteristics that nearly always add up to a huge success for [...]

Seattle is not on a path to Vision Zero by 2030. In fact, the city is still heading in the wrong direction. The good news is that when SDOT implements [...]

A person driving a white pickup struck and seriously injured two people riding a Lime bike or scooter at Aurora and Roy early Monday. A man around 30 years old [...]

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 [...]