Seattle Bike Blog

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]