Seattle Bike Blog

The extreme rainfall this week has triggered washouts and landslides that have damaged the Palouse to Cascades Trail. WSDOT posted a photo of a significant slide that has destroyed at [...]

The huge amount of rainfall across the region in recent days has sent several rivers into flood stages, including the Cedar, Green, Snoqualmie, South Fork Skykomish, Tolt and White Rivers [...]

Which lunchtime foods pair best with which type of bicycle? You may never have considered this question before, but that tells me that you need to buy a copy of [...]

Link Light Rail is getting three new stations in South King County Saturday! While you might think that riding the train to those new train stations would be the most [...]

The pitch is great: Let's take a car culture waste product that would otherwise be burned and instead turn it into a barrier to protect the lives of people biking. [...]

Seattle was the first major and lasting launch city for Lime back in July 2017, and the city has continued to be one of the company's strongest markets globally. In [...]

Tomorrow (November 26) is Marshall Major" Taylor's birthday, and to celebrate we have a limited number of copies of his fascinating 1928 autobiography for sale in the Seattle Bike Blog [...]

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC") has issued a product safety warning" urging anyone with a Rad Power Bikes battery model HL-RP-S1304 or RP-1304 to immediately cease using it [...]

With food insecurity issues getting national attention, I had a feeling Seattle's 16th Annual Cranksgiving could attract more people than usual. But I can still hardly believe the final totals [...]

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 [...]