Seattle Bike Blog

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 [...]

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 [...]