Seattle Bike Blog

Seattle has revolutionized biking to and from Georgetown this year, opening quality bike lanes and paths from the neighborhood north to Stadium Station and south to the South Park Bridge. [...]

The Georgetown to Downtown Safety Project officially opened in September, and it is a massive improvement for bikeability through the Industrial District. However, it does have one glaring problem: It [...]

Seattle, we are entering uncharted territory. We have not had a mayor like Katie Wilson in recent memory if ever. She is a genuine community organizer who challenged a seemingly-invincible [...]

A great city like Seattle should never have anything to hide from its people. That's why one of the best things city government can do to earn the public's trust [...]

I am writing this post before King County Elections releases the November 11 ballot count, so the result of the Seattle mayoral election is still unknown. It has been torture [...]

Seattle-based e-bike giant Rad Power Bikes has filed official notice to Washington State as well as the company's 64 Washington employees that the company could end operations as early as [...]

The Seattle Times reports that the garden and walkways across the Ballard Locks will remain open and the locks will remain operational while the visitor center, salmon viewing area and [...]

Tom Babin from the excellent Calgarian YouTube channel Shifter was in town for Cascade Bicycle Club's annual Ride from Seattle to Vancouver and Party (RSVP"), and I had the pleasure [...]

I've been writing this blog since 2010, and nearly every year I have a post about biking in dark and rainy weather. Yet it took me until just a couple [...]

It may be too late to rely on the post office to mail your ballot ahead of the November 4 election, so anyone with a ballot still lying around should [...]

King County Parks is fixing a section of pavement on the Sammamish River Trail between NE 178th and NE 175th Streets in Woodinville, so expect intermittent" closures between November 3 [...]

The 16th Annual Seattle Cranksgiving is November 22, but it could be unlike any that came before it. Join us for a day of fun, bikes and community support! Anyone [...]

Inspectors found significant rot" and closed a small bridge on the Snoqualmie Valley Trail south of Duvall about halfway between NE 138th and 124th Streets. King County Parks immediately closed [...]

Editor's Note: Seattle Bike Blog has enthusiastically endorsed Katie Wilson for Seattle Mayor, and we wrote in a recent roundup of advocacy organization endorsements that WA Bikes snubs several bike [...]

After more than 13 years of advocacy, the longest forested mountain bike trail within Seattle city limits will officially open Saturday (October 25). The mile-long Trillium Loop in Cheasty Greenspace [...]

Skip ahead to the endorsements: Ballots are hitting mailboxes across Washington State, and Seattle has the opportunity to elect a mayor who is a people-powered champion for biking, walking, transit [...]

Hanoch Yeung calls them one of the new best bike lanes in town." The E Marginal Way bikeway is now open, and Yeung toured them in his latest video for [...]

Staff at both Seattle Parks and SDOT worked together to fully design a series of planned street safety upgrades to Lake Washington Boulevard, including additional speed humps to slow speeding [...]

This summer, E Marginal Way construction crews maintained a separated bikeway coned off while the rest of the street was closed to most car and truck traffic. The street went [...]

When the Port of Seattle initially announced the Terminal 91 Trail bridge removal project back in 2023, they were also planning to widen the Path Narrows" pinch point where the [...]

I'm gonna tell you about an audacious idea that sounds almost impossible, one that is rooted in dreams about symbolic and literal unity of our nation. It is both a [...]

The Interurban Trail will be closed for repairs October 6-10 between 29th Street NW and W Main Street near Emerald Downs, according to King County Parks. The closure is to [...]

When neighbors asked the city to make Lake Washington Boulevard safer for people walking and biking, the city kicked off a half-decade public outreach process that stalled out once Bruce [...]

The skinny trail bridge over a driveway in Interbay that the Port of Seattle has not used for decades is now gone along with the various pinch points it created. [...]

Happy Week Without Driving to all who celebrate! The annual event continues to grow as more and more communities sign up to challenge themselves and their elected and agency leaders [...]

It's great to Hanoch back on the bike shooting footage of the city over at Best Side Cycling. He rode the new bike lanes on 15th Ave S and Beacon [...]

Two major bike connections to Georgetown are opening at the same time, so SDOT is hosting one party for both of them 12-2 p.m. Sunday (September 28) at Mini Mart [...]

Well, we knew this was probably going to happen back in November 2023 when Seattle elected a slate of more conservative candidates for City Council. Even though as candidates most [...]

Seattle Times photographer Kevin Clark captured some great images of people walking and biking across the Foothills Trail bridge of the White River, which is currently the only direct connection [...]

With little fanfare, SDOT announced via social media that the Beacon Hill bike lanes on 15th Ave S and Beacon Ave S are officially open. They represent the most significant [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]