2010
341 posts
2010 341
December 2010
- After scary collision on Broadway, Duggan on path to full recovery
- Killed Hawaii biker’s friends find hit-and-run driver
- Driver runs down caroling cyclists downtown – UPDATED
- Ballard’s Bikeability: Could Portland’s lessons work well there?
- Portland bike group asks for streetcar track fixes
- Bike share data: Bikes are faster in-city than cars
- Why we should throw parties for bike projects
- SDOT’s year-end bike project roundup
- Burke-Gilman still closed near Lake City
- BikeWise: Truck runs biker off road at 1st and Spokane
- Register for Alleycat Acres’ March ride: Your chance to power urban farms by bike
- Mudslides obscure parts of Burke-Gilman near Lake City – UPDATED
- Work on W Thomas St overpass to start in March
- Your weekend homework: Bicycle Kung Fu
- Calling all experienced managers with heart: Bike Works is hiring a new Executive Director
- Why giving away bike lights makes sense
- Real Change covers Cranksgiving
- Tell your ninja friends: Free lights this afternoon!
- Let SDOT know where to install bike racks
- Cops catch prolific Cap Hill bike thieves
- SDOT needs lots of volunteers to count people walking and biking
- Is this even a better waterfront?
- Recent bike wrecks: Cab hits biker, 911 says to just get information
- Greenwood Ave changes feel natural
- Portland’s BikeCraft looks awesome, should Seattle hold something similar?
- Reflections on recent bike deaths
- Scoffing at pedestrian safety
- Have a mustache? Know where to buy one?
- UW bike parking use up 13%
- November bike thefts
- Deck your bike Friday evening
- Help load bikes for the Village Bicycle project Saturday
- Free bike light giveaway Dec. 9
- Roosevelt and University Bridge bike lanes finally green
- Cascade’s Board has the power to fix the club’s woes
- Gendler wins another legal battle, opening new access to state traffic incident data
- Bike News Roundup: 80% of CPH bikers ride through the winter
November 2010
- Streets for All: Bike and Ped spending up 7% in city’s budget
- Bike Hugger holiday party Wednesday
- Poisoned Sharrow
- Tomorrow: Cascade Town Hall at Magnuson
- Reflections on snow, bikes and Seattle
- Looking for a way to dodge today’s shopping mayhem?
- Snow and ice biking tips
- No, seriously, stop driving (VIDEO)
- Bike News Roundup: $2.3M for Redmond Trail
- (VIDEO) When you design roads so people can go 80 …
- Cranksgiving 2010 riders donate bike-loads of food
- Mapped: The advantage of the Seattle bike/bus combo
- Beacon BIKES to hold neighborhood transportation summit Saturday
- Riding bikes to support urban farming
- Showing Friday: Asiemut
- Cranksgiving 2010 Update – Free bike lights!
- Bike lanes part of repaved S Columbian Way
- Another strange attack on biker in the U District
- Bike News Roundup: Bikejuju XXX (no, not that kind of XXX)
- Cascade: 30% of state legislature will be pro-bike next year
- Bike Collision Roundup: Bus runs biker off the road in Ravenna
- Seattle’s First Cranksgiving – Details
- Look out!
- Weekly Bike Theft Map (Nov 5-12)
- State will not push cyclists to back of the ferry
- Cascade sets date for town hall meeting
- Cranksgiving Update – Ride is Nov. 20, top prize is a night at Belltown Inn
- Bikes headed to the dump now destined for Bike Works
- South Seattle biker defies attempted bikejackers
- A street between South Lake Union and Queen Anne designed for walking and biking
- Cranksgiving in Seattle: Who wants to help make it happen?
- Bike News Roundup: Seattle Traffic Deaths Thermometer, 1940
- Tuesday: Portland bike planner Mia Birk to talk at REI – UPDATED
- Chief Sealth Trail extention will help connect from Othello station to SoDo, Capitol Hill
- Failed I-5 noise reducers cost half the mayor’s 2011 Walk Bike Ride increase
- Council signals plans to reject parking tax, but allow some meter hikes
- Your Friday bike theft map (Oct 28-Nov 5)
- Should people on bikes exit ferries last? Let the state know what you think
- SDOT releases alternate bike route map for Mercer East construction
- Another bicycle traffic advisory: Seaview and Golden Gardens
- Stretch of Burke-Gilman near Gas Works closed for most of November
- Bike News Roundup: No walking or biking to school allowed
- New Seattle Bicycle Music Festival Video
- Children’s Hospital to invest $2 million in biking and walking projects
- More details on coming Ballard bike share program
- Status of Cal Anderson bike polo looking better under new Parks rules, but remains ambiguous
October 2010
- A ‘former political-lobbying powerhouse’ – Bike News Roundup
- The air is better on the other side of the parked cars
- Bike box at 7th and Dearborn helps bikers turn left visibly
- On Fairview and Fairview and the demand for free parking
- Biker attacked with umbrella, beer can at Pike Place Market
- Woman with golf club attacks biker on Eastlake
- Budget Hearing Reminder: Support walking, biking and transit funding tonight, 5 p.m. at City Hall
- Parks Athletic Manager suggests banning bike polo from Cal Anderson
- State pays $8 million to biker paralyzed in Montlake Bridge wreck
- Why do we need pedestrian advocacy?
- New Site Feature: Live-Updated Seattle Bike Theft Map
- Driver tries to attack cyclist with Taser in Northgate
- Friday Bike Theft Map (Oct 15-22)
- Cascade Director: If I get fired for protecting my staff, then so be it
- Large 2011 Burke-Gilman detour between Seattle and Kenmore proving difficult to plan
- Cascade Board vows to respond to concerns at tonight’s member meeting
- Climbing lane coming soon to Taylor in Queen Anne
- Portland takes the ‘bad ass’ out of biking, part 3: The Community Cycling Center
- Group questions Cascade’s Board selection process
- The ‘Vision Zero’ philosophy of traffic engineering puts safety above all else
- Bike News Roundup: DIY bike lanes
- Portland takes the ‘bad ass’ out of biking, part 2: PBOT proposes 20 mph speed limits
- Portland takes the ‘bad ass’ out of biking, part 1: The Going St bicycle boulevard
- Bike sharing pilot could be headed to Ballard
- Why do you ride?
- Proposed parking increases get cold reception from council
- The magic little biker near the stop light
- Your weekly bike theft map (Oct 7-14)
- My name is Tom, and I am a bicycle addict
- Bike News Roundup: Barriers to mobility
- Robber steals biker’s bag full of inner tubes
- Woman stops bike theft, helps end alleged burglary spree
- ‘Safety in Numbers’ should be our loudest bicycle safety cause
- Morning Matinee: 100,000 people take to the ‘opened’ streets of LA for CicLAvia
- Ousted director reportedly back at Cascade, at least in the interim – UPDATED
- No Ridiculous Car Trips
- SDOT offers grants to help kids walk or bike to school
- You know what’s even cooler than kids reading books?
- Puget Sound Business Journal editor tries to pick fight with bikes, falls on face
- Cascade Director change proves a little rocky: The Board and Ayers explain their rough split
- Your Friday bike theft map (Oct 1-8)
- 9th Ave closing at Aloha next week, but a sidewalk will remain open for cyclists
- My favorite bike lanes are the ones without cars in them
- Bike News Roundup: Ring, ring … Hello. What would it take to get you on a bike today?
- Traffic signal at Fremont and 105th up and running
- No Bikes Allowed
- Yet another Burke-Gilman missing link broken jaw
- How much advocacy do we want from our area’s largest bicycle club?
- How to bring your bike on Link: Sound Transit releases new videos – UPDATED
- Bike News Roundup: You’re safer on a bike than on a sofa
- Cascade Bicycle Club director asked to resign – UPDATED
- Yesterday was a great day for flannel
- Washington State walking and biking projects hit disproportionately
- SDOT paints bike trapezoids on Madison
- Bicyclist hit near the Junction in West Seattle
- Help load a shipping container full of donated bikes for the Village Bicycle Saturday
- Your Friday bike theft map (Sept 23-30) … this time with video!
September 2010
- Should city cyclists feel bad about bike funding in the mayor’s budget?
- Bicycle Film Festival rolls into town next week
- Montreal bikers stage mass ‘die-in’
- Burke-Gilman detour Saturday due to invasion of rolling children
- What’s that green thing in front of the police station?
- First Hill Streetcar Update: Cycle track would pay for itself
- City announces arrival of Capitol Hill bike box
- Attend the budget meetings to support complete streets
- Bike News Roundup: A $1,500 bike polo bike
- Why complete streets make sense in a balanced city budget
- New South Lake Union park brings Cheshiahud Loop closer to completion
- Changes coming to Fairview and Fairview
- Last day to comment on SR 520 Seattle interchange report
- Friday bike theft map (Sept 17-24)
- Othello St project, $725k to connect Seward, Link and Chief Sealth Trail
- City announces 11 neighborhood street projects, bikes to get help on S Othello and Fairview
- Lake City town hall digest (a little late)
- Bike box coming soon to 12th and Pine, Portland study says theirs worked
- Greenwood Ave changes coming next month
- Now, something for Seattle Bike Blog’s Platinum Readers
- New SDOT walking map a good step forward – UPDATED x2
- Tuesday’s Feature Presentation: Seattle Channel takes on road diets on City Inside/Out
- Bike News Roundup: A Virginia man is murdered over a speed bump
- Clash of the Powerpoints: Waterfront edition – UPDATED
- Burke-Gilman missing link opponents dealt blow in court
- Public hearing Thursday to discuss opening tennis courts to bike polo, dodgeball
- Possibly impaired driver strikes biker in 10th Ave E construction area
- Stop riding with a squeaky bike! Come by the People’s Parking Lot
- Your weekly bike theft map (Sept 9-15)
- No, SDOT does not need more 125th studies
- Squeaky chain? We’re helping to give free light tune-ups on Park(ing) Day
- New women bikers in NYC
- ‘One male trout, using the fish ladder, wearing a condom’
- Open house to discuss Mercer West Sept 21
- King County wants a bike sharing program
- Climbing lane coming to 5th Ave NE near Northgate Mall
- Bike News Roundup: A bike path xylophone
- Ferry report says bikes ‘impede’ cars and should load/unload last
- City proposes Beacon Hill bike trail to connect I-90 to Sodo
- Driver hits and kills his biking friend in Enumclaw, then kills self – UPDATED
- A pedal-powered party at Seattle Bicycle Music Festival 2010 (video)
- Linden cycle track follow-up, a quick chat with SDOT
- Bicycle Music Festival Is Tomorrow
- Your weekly bike theft map (Sept 2-9)
- Downhill bike lane dropped from Admiral Way plans
- Another biker allegedly attacked in U District and called a racial slur
- CNN reports on World Bicycle Relief
- Video: Overcoming your biking fears
- SDOT proposes Linden cycle track to complete Interurban
- Don’t be a ‘fair weather’ biker
- Port of Seattle study of Nickerson confirmed the project would not affect traffic – UPDATED
- ‘Free Ice Cream for Bike Lane Builders’
- Beacon BIKES! picks consultant
- A couple bike thefts on Cap Hill, via CHS
- Cycling at the Seabeck deaf-blind retreat
- Streets for All searches for common ground – Real Change
- Another Ballard missing link broken wrist
- Weekly Bike Theft Map (Aug 26 – Sept 2)
- After Yelling Match, Racist Driver Hits Biker in U District
- Today’s Lunch Special: Steam-Broiled State Transportation 20-Year Plan
- After a year, a look at the Broadway cycle track (no, not our Broadway)
- New idea to encourage bicycle use: Clothing optional bikes!
- Who should be liable in a collision?
- My gas taxes pay for (0.44% of) these roads!
- A bike boulevard for Beacon Hill
- Next time, I’m moving by bike
August 2010
- Bike News Roundup: Diets and dangerous detours
- Signal getting ready at Fremont and 105th
- SPD online reporting system leads to arrest of bike thief
- 20’s Plenty: Lowering residential speeds to 20 mph
- What do bikers want from the Mercer West project?
- It’s unfortunate you all got used to your free parking
- Seattle Bicycle Music Festival shaping up, needs volunteers
- The Bier Bike and Seattle: Could it happen? A chat with the WA Liquor Board
- Alert the Militia! Seattle Is in the Pocket of Big Bicycle
- Beacon Hill changes looking strong, but can we go a step further?
- Buffered bike lanes a much better fit for Dexter
- Cascade lands Bullitt grant for national efforts
- Bike news roundup: A month-long traffic jam (!)
- KUOW takes on ‘road diets’
- 1 with Lycra, 2 without, 3 on cruisers… SDOT needs help counting bikes
- Fiets of Parenthood: The Movie
- Return of the bamboo bike trailer
- Your (very late) bike theft map (Aug 13-23)
- Judkins Park Bike Polo tournament shows how cool the sport can be
- Open house Tuesday to discuss several Beacon Hill road changes
- Times columnist takes some of her claims back
- Bike news roundup: Beer Bikes! (can we please get one?)
- SDOT calls bull on claims they had no outreach for 125th changes
- Lessons from Bikestravaganza, Part 2: Bike Business
- Nicole Brodeur supports NE 125th changes (but she thinks she doesn’t)
- Cycle Cop Chic: New trend emerging of biking while cop
- Reminder: Open house Thursday to discuss Dexter plans
- Lessons from Bikestravaganza, Part 1: $65 million = World class bike city or 1 mile of freeway
- To people worried about changes to NE 125th: Take the Greenwood Ave challenge
- Some don’t-miss weekend bike events
- Your weekly bike theft map (August 8-15)
- Avoid 10th Ave E Sat and Sun, the Ballard Bridge until the end of September
- Bike News Roundup: Mark Twain was for bike sharing programs before it was cool a U.N. conspiracy
- Bike lanes are in on 11th north of the University Bridge
- Tonight is not the night to try out the new Nickerson bike lanes
- Recent bike vs motor vehicle collisions
- Biking around Seattle in the 1890s
- Dead Baby Downhill Roundup
- Nickerson bike lanes in, construction still in process
- Where did the 2nd Ave bike lane go wrong? – UPDATED
- Which Seattle streets could go car-free?
- Bikestravaganza coming to town Saturday (also, best tattoo ever)
- Your weekly bike theft map (July 30 – Aug 6): Now featuring West Seattle
- Driver of Annoying Loud Car Attacks Biker in Cap Hill
- Cast your Walk Bike Ride ballot
- Dexter cycle track plans changed, wide buffered bike lanes proposed
- Same tired arguments suiting up for battle over NE 125th, sort of like in The Expendables
- Dan Bertolet hates cars because they kill your children
- Greenwood Ave a great tailored road case study
- Bike thieves target building owners, too
- Bicycle Alliance leader wrecks, helped up by Salmon Bay Sand & Gravel worker
- Avoid the Ballard Bridge, especially next week
- StolenBicycleRegistry.com now streaming in the sidebar
- Ever take your bike on Link Light Rail? How did it go?
- On other blogs: ‘Maybe you shouldn’t have to buy a car to get a job.’
- Follow-up: Biker hit by soccer ball and jumped in Magnolia, but was it all a misunderstanding?
- Tour de Fat rolls through town, the Troll is not amused
July 2010
- Tour de Fat tomorrow at Gasworks
- Biker injured in Magnolia soccer ball attack, bike stolen
- Cascade endorses primary candidates, what do you think?
- Your weekly bike theft map (July 22-29)
- Roosevelt redesign between 75th and 85th on hold until 2011 – UPDATED
- Bike lanes proposed for Greenwood Ave, open house Tuesday
- Bike drive for Village Bicycle in West Seattle Saturday
- SDOT working on plans to continue the Broadway cycle track on Yesler
- Cycle Tracks and Seattle, Part 3: The Great City presentation
- Bike boxes headed to Cap Hill, International District
- Pushing the car vs bike fight is not helping
- Woman hit by car in Cap Hill: All in all, I am okay
- On other blogs: Biking the coast in 1909
- Reminder: Open house today to discuss bike lanes on NE 125th
- Painting has begun on Roosevelt
- After Mercer Island road changes scrapped, another teen is hit by car
- Survey Says: Without my car lanes I’ll die!
- Your weekly bike theft map (July 16-23)
- A moving, pedal-powered music festival is coming to a park near you
- Cycle Tracks and Seattle, Part 2: Look, the Canucks can do it, too!
- Cycle Tracks and Seattle, Part 1: But the Danes can do it!
- Emerald Sprints tonight in Ballard
- Bike master plan already out-of-date?
- Two places to watch the Tour outdoors on a big screen today
- Copenhagen Envy
- Open house in Georgetown tonight to present Ellis/Albro changes
- Seattle Bike Blog now on Facebook, if you’re into that kind of thing
- Road diet proposed for NE 125th, open house Monday
- Watch the Tour on a big screen at Magnuson Park Thursday night
- One block of Terry Ave to become ‘green street’
- Building a bamboo bike trailer
- Times editorial board, this is no time to be stuck in the past
- Nickerson ‘road diet’ work to start next week
- Being blind won’t stop woman from biking Seattle to Portland
- New traffic signal at Fremont Ave and 105th will help cyclists
- Godspeed, Seattle to Portland riders
- On other blogs: ‘Golf Ball From Army Navy Country Club Fifth Hole Hits Baby’
- Savage Road Rash: Sharing the road with streetcar tracks
- Your weekly bike theft map (July 9-15)
- Reflections on the first week of Seattle Bike Blog
- Funding SDOT: Tax parking and car licensing
- Car vs bike crash in Cap Hill yesterday, injuries not life threatening
- Roosevelt parking removal NOT an issue
- New bike lanes on Jefferson are nice for climbing, sharrows seem awful close to parking
- Why we need to be cautious when installing new trolley tracks
- Admiral Way makeover plans draw (expected) criticisms from drivers, some concerns from bikers
- Reason #13 to NOT drive a car: Traffic on I-5
- At a Bike Works volunteer party, bikes for kids are pieced together with heart
- Residents worried about parking removal on Roosevelt
- Bike commute meeting at City Hall tomorrow
- New bike lanes on Jefferson
- Over the weekend: Changes to Roosevelt and Jackson
- Man jumped downtown, suspects steal his bike as he holds on
- Name-calling in battle over Missing Link
- A bike ban near my hometown
- First Hill Streetcar plans have some bike lanes on Jackson, lots of sharrows
- Changes proposed for Roosevelt, open house Monday
- This week’s bike theft map (July 2-9)
- Bike Fight!
- Thomas Street proposal lacking, makes concessions to that lame tunnel
- Reason #345 to Not Drive a Car: BP’s Offshore Oil Strike Board Game
- 45th Street viaduct construction got you down? It’s easier to get around it by bike!
- Where NOT to park your truck
- No Cars Allowed
- Lame businesses in Ballard try to further block Missing Link
- ‘Road diet’ for Admiral includes more buffered bike lanes
- Seattle Bike Blog has arrived
- Gone camping. Seattle Bike Blog launches July 8
- Walk Bike Ride Challenge starts today
- Dreaming of a national bike trail ‘Interstate’ system
- Driver just assaulted me while riding downtown – UPDATED
- Seattle Pride had some awesome pedal power, but WAY too many damn cars