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Heading north in the existing two-way bike lane on 2nd Ave, people will need to make an awkward left turn into a new two-way bike lane on Broad Street between 2nd and 1st.

But our city has never had a connected bike route to the Lower Queen Anne/Uptown business district before. Bike advocates have a habit of focusing on what needs to be improved rather than what has been accomplished, and that’s because the shortcomings are very important.

It is great that the city is building a connected bike route here, and this project required several blocks of on-street parking removal, which is rarely politically easy to do. This post does include feedback on the design, but we criticize out of love and because we care so much about this work. It does require a zig-zag, but it should be a big improvement for people accessing the business district rather than Seattle Center. The city is beginning work this weekend on what they hope will be the primary bike route for people traveling between Belltown and Lower Queen Anne/Uptown. It’s not great.īut OK, that’s all behind us. No additional sidewalk space was created. Now the bike lane is routed up onto the sidewalk. Amid lockdowns and everything else in 2020, everyone had more pressing matters to attend to and the half-block of bike lane removal just south of Denny Way went through.

People started mounting a campaign to reverse this decision in early 2020, but you all know what happened next. Because nothing says “climate pledge” like turning a bike lane into a car lane. There’s a good chance you missed the news about this one because, well, let’s just look at the timestamp … oh no.Īs part of the Climate Pledge Arena transportation plan, SDOT closed a short section of the 2nd Ave bike lane to create an additional lane for cars leaving the arena parking garage.