Seattle Bike Blog

Don’t worry, the city isn’t removing the two-way bike lane on the Ballard Missing Link. Readers have been asking why the bikeway stripes on NW 45th Street between Fred Meyer and the Ballard Bridge have been removed, as shown in … Continue reading →

The University Bridge will be closed for the next three weekends, so plan ahead. Because the detour is going to be rough. All people driving, biking and walking will be detoured from as early as 8 p.m. Friday to as … Continue reading →

Seattle has settled a claim with the estate of the late Sher Kung for $3.5 million, the Seattle Times reports. Kung was killed at 2nd and University in August 2014 just ten days before the dangerous paint-only bike lane on … Continue reading →

Pronto Cycle Share has released its third “unicorn” bike into the system: The #SalmonBike. Like the bike share system’s popular Pride-themed “glam” bike in 2015, there is only one red-scaled #SalmonBike out of the 500 bikes in the fleet. If … Continue reading →

FREE BIKE may be over, but your bike is still your ticket to summer fun this weekend (duh). So let’s take a look at some of entries to our events calendar: E-Bike Expo at Southcenter Mall – Friday through Sunday … Continue reading →

Pleasant Revolution doesn’t just tour by bike, their shows are even literally powered by bikes. During three shows in Seattle this week they are calling the Biketopia Music Festival, members of the audience will pedal stationary bikes to generate the … Continue reading →

OMG JUST BUILD THE MISSING LINK ALREADY!!!1!1!! OK, had to get that out of my system. As frustrating and drawn out as the seemingly endless Burke-Gilman Trail Missing Link debate has been in recent decades (yes, decades!), we have never … Continue reading →

Park(ing) Day is one of my favorite days of the year. I just bike all over the city visiting dozens of new tiny parks that pop up in parking spaces for just a few hours (see our post from last … Continue reading →

FREE BIKE has been a blast so far, but we are just halfway through the ten-day calendar. We challenged you all to make your bike ride and event ideas reality July 1–10, and you came through. The calendar currently has … Continue reading →

UPDATE 7/8: WSDOT announced Friday that this closure is being put on hold so the team can rethink how the trail detour will work. From WSDOT: The planned closure of the Burke-Gilman Trail through Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood on Monday, July … Continue reading →

Sunday’s FREE BIKE Party and Pedaler’s Fair was a blast. Thanks to everyone who joined us for our first ever street party. But FREE BIKE is far from over. We challenged you all to make your bike ride and event … Continue reading →

The ten-day, people-powered bicycle festival FREE BIKE kicks off bright and early tomorrow, and I can’t wait. We challenged you all to make your bike ride and event ideas reality July 1–10, and you came through. The calendar currently has … Continue reading →

SDOT Director Scott Kubly has admitted that he failed to obtain a waiver before working with his former employer about Seattle’s bike share system Pronto. The months-long ethics investigation concluded that Kubly violated ethics rules by working with former co-workers … Continue reading →

Gotta highlight this event Wednesday (tonight!) at Peddler Brewing. Drink beer to benefit Bike Works. It doesn’t get easier than that! More details from the event listing: On Wednesday, June 29th from 4-10 pm, Peddler Brewing Company will be donating … Continue reading →

As Seattle gets more and more dense, efficient transit and comfortable walking and biking only become more important by the day. So perhaps it makes sense to learn from a U.S. city far more dense than Seattle. Which is why … Continue reading →

Editor’s Note: This report comes from Sidney Sullivan, a student in the UW’s News Lab journalism program. Seattle is acclaimed for being a very bike friendly city, as a recent Zillow study ranked Seattle as the nation’s best largest-city to … Continue reading →

The July 3 FREE BIKE Party is shaping up to be a blast, and we could use your help to make sure this bike-loving block party in Ballard goes off without a hitch. Sign up to volunteer! The FREE BIKE … Continue reading →

Despite ample evidence that streetcar tracks injure and maybe even kill people biking, plans for a downtown streetcar line on 1st Ave and Stewart Street do not include any adjacent bike lanes or any other measure to make the tracks … Continue reading →

829 pages have been added to the already-towering mountain of documents studying the 1.2-mile Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail. An estimated 22 people have gone to the hospital due to crashes on this dangerous stretch just since work … Continue reading →

What does a city say to a grieving family when they ask, What value is there in a streetcar if the tracks injure or even kill people? Seattle officials did not have any adequate answers to this question during a … Continue reading →

Family, friends and neighbors working for safer streets will hold a memorial walk for Desiree McCloud today (Monday) on E Yesler Way. The walk starts 6 p.m. at Bailey Gatzert Elementary. The group will cross the street to the ghost … Continue reading →

Standing next to the ghost bike painted white in memory of Andy Hulslander, Councilmember Rob Johnson (District 4) lamented that the city had not acted fast enough to make NE 65th Street safer. “I stated [in my campaign] that we … Continue reading →

Will 2016 be the year you finally go for it and ride in the Fremont Solstice Parade? The iconic tradition where everyone is invited to strip down “as bare as you dare,” paint their bodies and bike ahead of the … Continue reading →

It’s well past time to make NE 65th Street safer for everyone. A community walk Thursday plans to call for exactly that. The #Fix65th Safety Walk starts 8 a.m. Thursday at 12th Ave NE and NE 65th St. Councilmember Rob … Continue reading →

Seattle has the chance to finally build a safe and comfortable bike route from the University Bridge to downtown. But more than that, the city also has the chance to create a safer and more inviting main street for the … Continue reading →

To most users, Pronto bikes are just a convenient way to cruise from point A to point B. But for BMX rider Steven Bafus, it’s that and so much more. Is BMX against the rules of Pronto? Probably (depends on … Continue reading →

Tell your boss to spend tomorrow at Cambia Grove downtown learning all about how to help your workplace be more bike-friendly. Encouraging biking is a great way both to improve employee morale, attract more customers and cut down on your … Continue reading →

The Girls of Summer Alley Cat was created in 2011 as “an adventurous romp through the Seattle city streets celebrating the best thing ever, GIRLS ON BIKES.” Well, it must be working because the sixth annual ride is Saturday (invite … Continue reading →

In the early 90s, a handful of people decided to hop on bikes and streak the Fremont Solstice Parade. They surely didn’t know at the time that they would inspire the world. Their act of celebratory, bicycle-powered mischief set the … Continue reading →

It’s time for the Bike News Roundup! Lots of good stuff floating around the web lately, so let’s get right to it. First up, Vox created a short and punchy video report outlining “how highways wrecked American cities.” Definitely worth … Continue reading →

Your bike is your ticket to fun every weekend in Seattle, of course. But it’s even more so this weekend as June brings a lot of big rides. So read this post, then shut off your screen, stop working and … Continue reading →

Amazon has fired dozens of bike couriers with little warning, apparently planning to deliver one-hour and two-hour Amazon Prime Now packages by driving in Seattle traffic instead. Good luck with that! Needless to say, many of the couriers who just … Continue reading →

In 2014, the internet was abuzz about a handful of creative, forward-thinking and sometimes very strange bicycle designs from five U.S. cities all competing for the Oregon Manifest Bike Design Project. The prize: Fuji Bikes would put the winning design … Continue reading →

Family members of Desiree McCloud spoke with KOMO for a powerful story about her untimely death on Yesler Way near 13th Ave. Desiree crashed May 13 while biking westbound on Yesler with friends. She was passing a friend on the … Continue reading →

Seattle Channel’s City Inside/Out produced a quality segment on the city’s recent bike plan cuts and the public protest against them. The episode begins with a five-minute intro report outlining how the cuts came about and what people protesting the … Continue reading →

We missed this news earlier this spring, but there will be two more car-free days on Lake Washington Boulevard this summer than in recent years. The city will host 14 Bicycle Sunday celebrations in 2016, the 48th year of Seattle’s … Continue reading →

EDITOR’S NOTE: Thanks to Madi Carlson for this post. It comes on the heels of several great posts she’s been writing recently on her blog FamilyRide.us. I especially like her post about family bike camping at Illahee State Park. Forget … Continue reading →

A week and a half after a bad bike crash along the First Hill Streetcar route, Desiree McCloud passed away Tuesday. We send our deepest condolences to her friends and family. A message on a fundraising page set up to … Continue reading →

Seattle Times Editorial Board Member Brier Dudley penned his magnum opus on the rights of cars in Seattle this week, arguing that Seattle should stop building places for people to live and work until we can figure out how to … Continue reading →

FREE BIKE is a new kind of bike festival for Seattle, one that puts the creativity and leadership in the hands of people like you. Yes, you. Our goal is to pack early July with so much bike fun you … Continue reading →

A $19.8 million project to rehab the historic Yesler Way bridge downtown starts today. Yesler Way will be under construction from 6th to 3rd Avenues downtown until fall 2017. You should also expect construction and detours on 4th and 5th … Continue reading →

Happy Bike Everywhere Day! Above is a map of commute stations around the region. Take your time and take the long way to work this morning. And if you don’t have work this morning, even better! The secret of Bike … Continue reading →

The day I first met Clint Loper, he was surrounded by an endless sea of kids biking off a Top Pot doughnut on their way to class at Bryant Elementary. Nearly a quarter of the school’s students biked to class … Continue reading →

Yesterday in Part I, we reported on a protest at City Hall over the city’s delayed bike plans, especially downtown. In Part II, we look at how Seattle got so far off their bold safe streets path, and how the … Continue reading →

Seattle has not built a bike lane downtown since October 2014. The 2nd Ave bike lane was supposed to demonstrate what could be, but going into summer 2016 it remains all that is. Holding signs saying, “My Family Bikes” and … Continue reading →

This moment right now was supposed to be the time Seattle finally took bold action on bike safety projects, taking our years of planning and making them real. The big electoral victory in November should have given the city both … Continue reading →

A man and woman sharing a bike collided with a Sound Transit bus at 5th and Main at 10:40 p.m. Saturday night. The woman was seriously injured, but conscious at the scene. The man died. Our condolences to his friends … Continue reading →

Pronto Cycle Share just had its strongest week of new membership sales since autumn October 2014, though the system still has more work to do to catch up to its 2015 membership levels. 124 people signed up during the system’s … Continue reading →

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second of two guest posts by Seattle Neighborhood Greenways this week. Their map conceptualizing the connectivity potential in the city’s bike planning is brilliant. If you like this vision or are frustrated by the city’s … Continue reading →