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by Tom Fucoloro on (#70098)
With today's ribbon cutting, the Redmond Central Connector Trail now, well, connects central Redmond to the Eastrail at NE 124th Street and all points beyond. This is the third phase [...]
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Seattle Bike Blog
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| Updated | 2025-09-16 07:45 |
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6ZZF9)
Seattle's horrific housing crisis continues to destabilize individuals and families who struggle to keep up with rising costs of living. Many continue to get priced out of housing entirely, pushing [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6ZYGX)
Gene Balk, the excellent data journalist over at the Seattle Times, wrote more this week about the car ownership ceiling Seattle seems to have hit back in 2017. From 2010 [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6ZXM2)
It is incredibly lucky that King and Pierce Counties completed the Foothills Trail Bridge over the White River last year because it is now serving as a key lifeline connecting [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6ZW16)
It's the Tom Flood meme come to life. Bicycles deliver the freedom that auto ads promise." Sunday, a permitted commercial shoot for Rivian shut down a section of Lake Washington [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6ZT1C)
The outpouring of support from BMX and mountain bike riders has saved the decades-old and community-maintained dirt jumps in Lower Woodland Park, a project planner for Seattle Public Schools told [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6ZS1P)
Bob Svercl recently created a video with fancy graphics showing a couple options for the city's planned bike lane to connect the 4th Ave bike lane to Seattle Center near [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6ZQYR)
A short section of the Snoqualmie Valley Trail is closed until October 10 north of Mount Si Golf Course in Snoqualmie. Longtime riders of the trail will be very familiar [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6ZM54)
My spouse Kelli, seven-year-old child and I woke up Tuesday morning with a plan to get to Lopez Island with our bicycles and camping gear using only public transit. There [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6ZJ4A)
The Port of Seattle is making some long-needed changes to the section of the Elliott Bay Trail that travels through the Terminal 91 rail yard in Interbay, including widening pinch [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6ZGMQ)
It's time for another weekend closure of the Spokane Street Swing Bridge to West Seattle, and as with other closures in recent years there will be no dedicated detour. The [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6ZGFZ)
If you've ever seen someone biking around town pulling a bright yellow or magenta cello case in a bike trailer, you've seen Bradley Hawkins. Even without his cello, he's a [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6ZEWT)
It sounds like the plot of a 1980s cult classic you rented 20 times on VHS from Blockbuster, but it's real. Seattle Parks and Seattle Public Schools are looking for [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6ZDYE)
I am renewing my effort to better cover the monthly meetings of the Seattle Bicycle Advisory Board, starting now. The volunteer board meets at 5:45 p.m. the third Tuesday of [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6ZD4A)
Winning over 50% of the vote in an eight-person primary and beating incumbent Bruce Harrell by nearly 10 percentage points, Katie Wilson is the clear front-runner to win the vote [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6Z8BR)
Kelli didn't want to accept it, but our kid is big enough now to ride her old childhood bicycle. We pulled this 90s mountain bike out of the garage, pumped [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6Z23Z)
SDOT released an early design concept for connecting the 4th Avenue bike lane from its current terminus at Vine Street in Belltown all the way to Thomas Street via Broad [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6Z167)
The newly-opened bike lanes on Alaskan Way not only make that stretch of the road safer, they also represent the final piece in a fully-connected waterfront bikeway. As we noted [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6Z0F8)
A Seattle Police officer with a history of preventable traffic collisions ran a stop sign with a flashing red light at the wide-open 8th and Bell intersection, striking a person [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6YZDA)
The Seattle Bike Blog Shop is the only source for genuine copies of When Driving Is Not An Option that were signed while chilling on Alki Beach. Every copy in [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6YYM6)
People traveling on Lake Washington Boulevard may notice new white lines near the sides of the road and think that the city finally painted bike lanes on the historic park [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6YX2W)
SDOT finished up work on the new Alaskan Way bikeway between Myrtle Edwards Park and the Overlook Walk, just in time for Friday's much-awaited opening of the new park and [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6YVMV)
It's new bike game day! Wheel World by indie gamemaker Messhof was released today (July 23) on PC, PlayStation and XBox. I bought it on Steam for PC. Bicycling video [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6YVDE)
I-5 rehab work has made the Seattle region's unreliable car driving network even less reliable, and there's still nearly a month to go before it is restored to its usual [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6YSTJ)
The family and I were biking to Alki for a fun in the cloud shade Sunday when we suddenly found ourselves in the middle of a freight caravan hauling hundreds [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6YRAK)
Your ballot is in the mail for the 2025 primary, and they are due August 5. But summer is super busy, and it is far too easy to lose track [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6YQHD)
Katie Wilson is a bus-riding mama who gets shit done. She seeks out and fosters genuine community relationships, works with folks to identify problems within city government that are holding [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6YPM7)
JRA was born in a 6 foot by 20 foot space in Pioneer Square, squeezed next to a stack of downtown commuter bike parking spots and all the bikes people [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6YNSX)
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 [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6YN20)
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 [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6YKBK)
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 [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6YJK7)
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 [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6YHNY)
15 years ago, I quit my day job to start Seattle Bike Blog with only a few months worth of savings and very little knowledge about bicycling or Seattle politics. [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6YFQQ)
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 [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6YDK1)
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 [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6YCT7)
The 2-block gap between the glorious new waterfront bikeway and the city's primary downtown bike artery on 2nd Ave will remain incomplete until 2026, Ryan Packer at the Urbanist reported. [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6YC3K)
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 [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6Y9N1)
Neighbors working for a safer Lake Washington Boulevard will host a people-protected Bicycle Weekend" demonstration noon Saturday (June 28) at Mount Baker Beach Park. They are asking anyone interested in [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6Y8W0)
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 [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6Y6TH)
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 [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6Y3E3)
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 [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6Y2NW)
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 [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6Y246)
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 [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6Y167)
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 [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6XYQW)
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 [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6XXH2)
This is the final post covering candidate responses to biking and safe streets questions during a recent forum hosted by a large group of transportation and urbanism organizations. We previously [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6XWTV)
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 [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6XVVR)
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 [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6XTA1)
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 [...]
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#6XSF1)
I did not make it to Wednesday evening's mayoral and council candidate forum because it was my 40th birthday, and my spouse Kelli and friends threw me a wonderful party [...]