Cycling

Completed Duwamish Trail Connection Led to Doubling of Walking and Biking

The installation of a protected bike lane on West Marginal Way SW, finally connecting the last gap between the Duwamish Trail and the West...
Three bike-wielding cops form a barricade around a sweep with a large contingent of officers behind

Seattle’s Pioneering Bike Cop Experiment

An excerpt from my new book, Heartbreak City, shows how Seattle kicked off a nationwide bike policing trend. A distant frontier city that had only...

Northup Connector Opens, Offering Direct Connection Between Eastrail and 520 Trail

Eastside officials and multimodal transportation advocates broke the ribbon Friday on a small but incredibly valuable new connection between the Eastrail and the State...

Seattle Is Building a Citywide Bike Network That Cannot Handle Its Own Popularity

Seattle's climate plan calls for doubling bicycling, but SDOT is not building its bike facilities to handle the load. To bike to Climate Pledge Arena,...

Design Flaws Prompt Changes to Capitol Hill’s Melrose and Pike Intersection

Bollards are on the way to protect pedestrians. When the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) wrapped up installation in mid-2022 on what had been intended...

Advocates Push for Change on World Day of Remembrance for Crash Victims

As Seattle approaches the ninth anniversary of its Vision Zero commitment to eliminate serious injuries and fatalities in traffic by the end of this...
Fall leaves in a new bike lane still being completed.

Complete Downtown to Capitol Hill Bike Connection Is Finally in Sight

Seattle's downtown bike network is about to take a big step forward in the coming months as work finally gets underway to create a...

With MLK Way Groundbreaking, South Seattle Bike Projects Start Getting Delivered

Construction has started on a 1.1-mile stretch of protected bike lanes along Martin Luther King Jr Way, finally starting work to connect Southeast Seattle,...