Seattle Bike Blog

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 [...]

Well, I hope you enjoyed the recently redesigned access to the Bill Dawson Trail while it lasted because the trail connection from Montlake Blvd to Montlake Playfield is closing May 12 and will not reopen until 2030. Intermittent closures have already begun and will continue until the full closure. The official signed biking detour goes [...]

Hanoch from Best Side Cycling recently published a quick tour of the remade section of Eastlake Avenue E that runs next to I-5 from the REI flagship store to the Lakeview Boulevard bridge. Work on the project, a partnership between King County Metro and SDOT, wrapped up over the winter and includes protected bike lanes, [...]

For years, the WAVE (Women Against Violence Everywhere") Foundation asked men to sit out their annual Cycle the Wave ride and instead help with fundraising and volunteer support for the event's women and nonbinary riders. The ride appealed to the women and nonbinary population that might show up at Flying Wheels and feel intimidated by [...]

Tern, a Taiwan-based bike maker that specializes in e-bikes like the popular HSD and GSD cargo bikes, said they would pause shipments to the U.S. because the Trump administration's recently announced (and then abruptly rescinded) tariffs were beyond the point they can work around. Companies importing products from China are likely still in a holding [...]

Bike Works has once again stepped up as an anti-racist guide star for bike organizations. As the Trump Administration bullies agencies, companies and non-profits across the nation into dropping (or at least concealing) their commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion, Bike Works refuses to cower and hide its values. Instead, they are celebrating them. Bike [...]

A 10% tax on the sale of all Class 3 e-bikes as well as e-bikes lacking certain certifications will be on the table when the Washington State House and Senate work to reconcile differences between their transportation budget bills. The state Senate passed the supposedly bi-partisan SB 5801 by a vote of 31-18 with only [...]

My face has turned into a sneezing, itchy, bloodshot sponge, which only mean one thing: Spring is here! If you are looking for a way to scratch that bike-riding itch this weekend, Bike Works has got you covered. The fourth Tour de Fleurs meets starting 11 a.m. Sunday at Genesee Park in Columbia City. Ride [...]

Just a couple weeks ago, we wrote about how the Trump Administration is attacking walking, biking and transit projects that are due to receive federal funding. These cuts will put our local, regional and state governments and agencies under great strain as they try to keep people moving safely. Compounding these problems for local bike [...]

Construction is underway on a long-sought update to add accessible and beginner-friendly features to the I-5 Colonnade mountain bike park in Eastlake, and Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance hopes the new paved pump tracks will be open by the end of May. The I-5 Colonnade mountain bike park was like nothing else when it first opened [...]

Washington legislators must be doing something right because the Missing Link obstructionists seemed a bit panicked during a public hearing on HB 1814 in front of the Senate Environment, Energy and Technology Committee Friday (watch via TVW starting at 20:00 and 1:05:00). The hearing itself didn't add anything to the Missing Link debate because that [...]

Seattle is a Tesla town. Or, rather, it was a Tesla town (more Tesla showroom protests are planned March 29). There are a lot of Tesla owners out there regretting their purchases and looking to get out. But what model of car should they replace them with? None! Take this frustrating experience and turn it [...]

The state legislature may step in and finally end the Ballard Missing Link's legal rats nest by exempting the city's trail plan from the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA"). The House has already passed HB 1814, and now the Senate is scheduled to hold a hearing about it Friday morning. Cascade sent out an action [...]

About 74,000 households in Seattle are car-free, making up more than 20% of all Seattle households. A modern high point for the city's car-free household rate, Seattle now ranks 9th among large U.S. cities by car-free household rate and 2nd for large U.S. cities west of the Mississippi behind only San Francisco, the Seattle Times' [...]