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by Tom Fucoloro on (#5N4D6)
WSDOT has started four new U.S. Bicycle Routes in southeast Washington, establishing Clarkston along the Snake River and Tekoa along the Palouse to Cascades Trail as long-distance bike route nexuses. The US Bike Route system is a vision for a … Continue reading →
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Seattle Bike Blog
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| Updated | 2025-08-21 18:00 |
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#5N0NK)
In 1896, Seattle city crews and a group of volunteers worked together to build a bike path from downtown to Lake Washington. They made it quickly, following the terrain around the north end of Capitol Hill to find the easiest … Continue reading →
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#5MZCD)
Seattle’s November election for Mayor and City Council Position 9 are going to be very close. King County Elections will drop more ballot results around 4:30 p.m. every weekday until they are all counted. Because later votes in Seattle tend … Continue reading →
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#5MWH2)
The primary election is tomorrow (August 3), and turnout in King County was sitting at a mere 13% as of Friday evening. That’s too low. But you are a Seattle Bike Blog reader, so you are engaged and vote in … Continue reading →
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#5MSN6)
The state is starting work on a significant Montlake Bridge repair project, which includes replacing all the metal roadway decking and maintaining the moving mechanism. This will lead to major closures for cars and buses. But because crews will keep … Continue reading →
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#5MRFB)
Join local safe streets groups and SDOT Saturday for a community bike ride celebrating the opening of the Green Lake bike lanes. Meet up 10:30 a.m. at the Flamingo parking lot of the Woodland Park Zoo to ride with the … Continue reading →
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#5MMVN)
After more than a year since their last Executive Director resigned, Cascade Bicycle Club and its sister organization Washington Bikes have selected their new leader. Lee Lambert will take the reigns of one of the largest statewide bicycling organizations in … Continue reading →
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#5MM6Y)
Seattle is a better city because of Dongho Chang. There may not be another public servant working in our city in the past decade who has had a greater impact on so many people’s everyday lives. Since 2012, Chang has … Continue reading →
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#5MG62)
Construction work is wrapping up on the new Fairview Ave N Bridge, finally bringing an end to a long closure of a major bike route between South Lake Union and Eastlake. The bridge opens to all traffic Sunday, but people … Continue reading →
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#5MDH3)
Leaders like Lorena González don’t come along often. She has been a stable, very progressive compass during a very tumultuous time in Seattle history, and the Council has shifted around her as voters continue to elect people who stand for … Continue reading →
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#5M88R)
NOTE: The 2021 primary election is August 3. The deadline to register or change your address online in King County is July 26, but you can register and vote in-person through Election Day. Don’t procrastinate! It’s summer, and August 3 … Continue reading →
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#5M3X4)
The Snoqualmie Valley Trail will be closed for two weeks just south of Duvall Park starting today, King County Parks announced. There is seemingly no alternative other than SR-203 (AKA Carnation-Duvall Rd NE), which has fairly skinny shoulders. And though … Continue reading →
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#5M0G9)
The Georgetown to South Park Connection, a walking and biking trail concept promoted for years by the community-led group Duwamish Valley Safe Streets, is on schedule to begin construction in 2022 and open in 2023. Final design should be complete … Continue reading →
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#5KY6M)
Yes, the new bikeway around (half of) Green Lake is a big improvement. We made a whole video about it. But it is only one part of a major series of paving projects all grouped together into one very big … Continue reading →
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#5KS37)
BoltBus was wonderful for three reasons: It was cheap. It ran multiple times a day. And they would let you shove your bike in the baggage compartment for free. The bus service, owned by Greyhound, is apparently shutting down all … Continue reading →
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#5KQN5)
Transit is back. Over the next couple days, agencies around the region will relax many of their COVID precautions as the bulk of Washington State’s restrictions end. Like many of you, I’ve still been treating transit as an essential-trips-only service. … Continue reading →
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#5KHGG)
Crews are nearly finished upgrading one of the most important bike routes in Seattle. East Green Lake Way N may have a terribly confusing name, but it forms a hub of sorts for north end bike routes. The Interurban North … Continue reading →
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#5KEDH)
Candidates for the open City Council Position 9 seat debated safe streets and other walking, biking and transit issues yesterday during a Move All Seattle Sustainably forum. Nikkita Oliver, Brianna Thomas and Sara Nelson attended. As with the recent mayoral … Continue reading →
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#5KCV5)
Washington State is reinstating about 100,000 people’s driver’s licenses after Thurston County Superior Court found it unconstitutional to revoke a license due to failure to pay a fine or appear in court for a non-criminal moving violation. The state’s Department … Continue reading →
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#5KB8M)
With iconic images of dozens of people biking off the ferry together, Cascade Bicycle Club’s Chilly Hilly ride has signaled the start of the bike events season for nearly half a century. As the name suggests, the February ride around … Continue reading →
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#5K6YM)
The Move All Seattle Sustainably Coalition — which includes many organizations including Disability Rights Washington, Cascade Bicycle Club, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways and the Transit Riders Union — hosted a mayoral forum Wednesday evening focused on walking, biking and transit issues. … Continue reading →
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#5K5E7)
The list of organizations backing a proposal to repeal King County’s all-ages bicycle helmet law includes many local bicycling and safe streets groups like Seattle Neighborhood Greenways and Cascade Bicycle Club as well as national organizations like People for Bikes … Continue reading →
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#5K2MQ)
The City Council has proposed $2.5 million to make many of the city’s Stay Healthy Streets permanent and another $300,000 to fund the popular Café Streets program through 2022 as part of the $128 million Seattle Rescue Plan to “kick … Continue reading →
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#5K2K6)
For years, WSDOT has resisted working with Seattle to connect the Rainier Valley Neighborhood Greenway to the Mountains to Sound Trail (AKA the I-90 Trail), according to reporting by Ryan Packer for the Urbanist. Packer requested emails between the two … Continue reading →
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#5JZ6W)
East Union Street now has protected bike lanes from 14th to 26th Avenues, providing a lower-stress way to climb the unavoidable ridge that peaks around 18th and 17th Avenues through the Central District. Before the new lanes were installed, skinny … Continue reading →
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#5JW6V)
The latest upgrade to the bike connections around the Fremont Bridge make some very significant improvements, though larger solutions are still needed to make it truly comfortable for people of all ages and abilities. The Burke-Gilman Trail is the region’s … Continue reading →
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#5JTHQ)
“If the trail is built, say the neighbors, it would violate their property rights and privacy, and would be challenged in court,” wrote the Seattle Daily Times in 1982 in a story about King County’s plan to convert the defunct … Continue reading →
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#5JNQW)
Seattle is working to catch up on bike projects after Mayor Jenny Durkan paused or cancelled nearly all bike plans during the first half or so of her term. And though it may be nearly impossible to completely make up … Continue reading →
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#5JK2Z)
Construction to prepare Lynnwood Transit Center for light rail and build a parking garage will close the Interurban North Trail between 52nd Ave W and 44th Ave W for two years starting May 12, according to Sound Transit. This is … Continue reading →
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#5JHDE)
Marley Blonsky put out a call recently that I support completely: Seattle needs you to plan a group ride. The pandemic all but erased the Seattle Bike Blog Events Calendar, which was of course the right thing to do. But … Continue reading →
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by Tom Fucoloro on (#5JG6X)
Heading out on your bike for a holiday weekend in search of a quiet gravel road is one of the best ways to get away. But as Edwin Lindo’s experience this weekend shows, racism follows people into the woods. And … Continue reading →
by Tom Fucoloro on (#5JD7R)
In Washington State, a news corporation now has more free press protections than an independent journalist. That seems to be the outcome of a somewhat surprising Washington Supreme Court decision this week, which potentially gutted the state’s Shield Law that … Continue reading →
by Tom Fucoloro on (#5JA5V)
COVID-19 broke global bicycle supply chains, resulting in long waits for new bikes and making bike parts harder for shops to stock. King 5 recently talked to two Lynnwood shops, Gregg’s Lynnwood Cycle and Harvy’s Bikes, about the shortage and … Continue reading →
by Tom Fucoloro on (#5J8SC)
Bike Works is turning 25 years old! How cool is that? That’s a quarter century of bike wrenching, teaching and youth programming in Columbia City. The organization has long had an excellent annual fundraiser auction. Of course, the pandemic isn’t … Continue reading →
by Tom Fucoloro on (#5J7BX)
The Greater Redmond Transportation Management Association is now “Move Redmond.” That seems like a good name change, though I may be biased since my spouse Kelli works for Move Redmond as the Advocacy and Communications Director. But it is a … Continue reading →
by Tom Fucoloro on (#5J2RF)
There’s no rally downtown, no after-party in Ballard and only a fraction of the community-created “celebration stations” in a typical year. But hey, Bike Everywhere Day 2021 is still an excuse to to ride your bike Friday, so it’s still … Continue reading →
by Tom Fucoloro on (#5J02Q)
The Bike News Roundup is back! And I’m trying out a new format for a news headlines video. It’s short and (hopefully) entertaining. Check it out and tell me what you think. Stories highlighted in the Headlines Show: Vote for … Continue reading →
by Tom Fucoloro on (#5HZHH)
Very cool to see Seattle’s NorthStar Cycling Club in Time Magazine this week. The young club is featured as part of the issue’s Visions of Equity project as an example of “How Communities of Color Have Found Strength, Joy and … Continue reading →
by Tom Fucoloro on (#5HY37)
Mayor Jenny Durkan, then-Police Chief Carmen Best and Seattle Fire Chief Harold Scoggins all deleted or otherwise lost their text messages from the midst of one of the most tumultuous times in Seattle history. The mayor has hidden the loss … Continue reading →
by Tom Fucoloro on (#5HTTS)
Mike Colmant was a father, grandfather, triathlete, and Deputy Director at Boeing Field. He was biking on Seward Park Ave S just north of Wilson Ave S when someone drove on the wrong side of the road and struck him, … Continue reading →
by Tom Fucoloro on (#5HSJY)
There is a book that gives traffic engineers across the nation guidelines for how to design streets and highways, and the Federal Highway Administration is updating it right now. Unfortunately, the current draft of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control … Continue reading →
by Tom Fucoloro on (#5HR9V)
You have until Sunday (5/16) to stream Phoebe’s Father from the Northwest Film Forum website. And you should! Tickets are sliding scale $5–$25 ($10 suggested) for a 48-hour streaming rental. We wrote about the film back in 2015 when it … Continue reading →
by Tom Fucoloro on (#5HQ0B)
SDOT and King County Metro are getting ready to redesign a significant stretch of Eastlake Ave E from Stewart Street in South Lake Union (near REI) to Fairview Ave N in Eastlake. The changes will happen in two phases with … Continue reading →
by Tom Fucoloro on (#5HP49)
Ryan Packer was the Temporary Editor of Seattle Bike Blog for the entire winter as I worked on completing the first draft of a book. During that time, they reported many important stories such as this report about an internal … Continue reading →
by Tom Fucoloro on (#5HHHX)
A majority of the City Council, led by Councilmember Dan Strauss, voted Wednesday to defer their decision on issuing a large bond until they have more details on what it would fund and when the money would be needed. As … Continue reading →
by Tom Fucoloro on (#5HG6J)
The Seattle Pedaling Relief Project (“SPRP”) started in the spring of 2020 as a way to help food banks deal with the sudden influx of people who needed to access their services at a time when COVID restrictions made it … Continue reading →
by Tom Fucoloro on (#5HCJS)
Eight years after Google Maps introduced biking directions in its iPhone app, Apple Maps has finally introduced the feature. And much like the Google version, it is…OK. When Google first introduced biking directions, it wasn’t perfect. The route decisions were … Continue reading →
by Tom Fucoloro on (#5H9NV)
The 2021 state legislative session is closing with some wins for biking, progress on other priorities and a lot of uncertainty about the future of transportation funding in Washington. A massive transportation funding bill loomed over the 2021 legislative session, … Continue reading →
by Tom Fucoloro on (#5H82Y)
Bellevue is getting ready to rollout its first take at a neighborhood greenway this summer, a north-south route running along side streets to the east of 164th Ave NE between Nothrup Way and SE 14th St, where it will meet … Continue reading →
by Tom Fucoloro on (#5H4PJ)
Seattle resident Lindsay Caron was seriously injured while biking in San Diego last week when someone struck her from behind and drove away. She is in the hospital in San Diego, where doctors have kept her in a medically-induced coma. … Continue reading →