This rain is really testing the limits of my bike‑gear waterproofing.

Every time I see a before/after picture like this, I think even the “before” is better than what we have for most school streets in Seattle.

With the light rail closed in downtown, and the ramp to access Aurora from 7th Ave N closed delaying the Rapid Ride E, it’s hard to have a reliable S-N transit service this weekend.

Why is it so hard to have a bike lane really protected from cars in this city?

Random idea: if people want more parking in their neighborhood, we could simply tow cars with expired license plates. It’s wild to expect free public storage for your private property when you’re not even paying for registration

Even when two protected bike lanes intersect, like at 92nd St and 1st Ave NE, the protection drops right at the intersection…

This was a horrible tragedy. We should really push for more accountability from both drivers and car manufacturers. There is no reason a car should be able to reach 75 mph in a 25‑mph zone. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/u...

NE 65th st, the bike lane that keeps on giving: we don’t have leaves anymore, just constant litter and whatever falls from these trees. Note how the sidewalk and road are clean.

Probably not fully ADA‑compliant, but still pretty useful. Imagine dropping these next to preschools to help parents with strollers

“The sign came out of nowhere.”

Random picture from yesterday: three cars, three ticketable offenses…

I told the kid, ‘Nice, it’s sunny today’ as we left home, thirty minutes later I was pedaling through a hailstorm…

Riding a bike in a hailstorm with no goggles is no fun…

Glad to see better parking management for events near Green Lake.

Is there a hotline to report bike‑lane design issues and bypass the painful multi‑year planning process? I do have a couple of design issues to report on our *protected* bike lanes…

Planning a trip between the U District and the Spring District: it’s interesting to see Line 2’s travel time once cross‑lake service begins. At about 40 minutes, it should consistently beat the 520 buses and even driving during rush hour

PSA: "the best solution that you can implement yourself today is to never ride within the door zone."

Seattle’s process moves so slowly that a sidewalk and crosswalk in a school zone can be blocked for half a year, with no safe detour, and the complaint still hasn’t even been processed

It seems the protected bike‑lane markings were removed for construction, and without any markings the curb space has defaulted back to parking. (This is at Eastlake Ave E and Fairview Ave E.)

Do we really need to put all these signs on the bike lane and curb ramp? We have 5 signs to warn drivers but the bike lane disappears with zero notice.

If you dodge the sign and avoid the large chunk of concrete debris in the bike lane, you may finally enter a nicely protected bike lane…

It looks like this new style of bike‑lane plastic barrier may already be due for maintenance.

My shifter cable snapped, so the bike was stuck in the highest gear… even with the e‑bike, the ride from Chinatown to Green Lake turned into a full workout. Big thanks to my LBS for fixing it super quickly!

It’s busy in Chinatown for the Lunar New Year celebration.

Is it just my eyes, or are the (illegal) license‑plate covers getting even more opaque? It’s nearly impossible to read the numbers, even from just a couple of feet away.

Thinking about how many extra cars were clogging school drop‑off this morning, I finally understand why Seattleites don’t bother with umbrellas, many people just switch to driving when it rains.

A rare sign in the RapidRide J construction area in University District

Biking is an efficient way to get around Seattle (this was Capitol Hill to Ballard this afternoon)

Sometimes I don’t know whether to see the glass as half empty or half full. It is impressive that the “no parking on walkway” signs keep most of the 1,800‑foot stretch clear (only three cars parked on it), but at the same time… we still have three cars on it.

A quick compilation of drivers blowing through stop signs in Seattle, captured on my bike cam youtu.be/BjY3pm3reIc?...

@seattledot.bsky.social @mayorofseattle.bsky.social @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social We voted to change the status quo. When something as unacceptable & avoidable as a pedestrian fatality occurs, we need immediate attention to find out why & action taken to improve safety. You can do this, & you must.

It was sunny when I left… I didn’t expect to end up biking on roads covered in hail.

Completely agree it’s time to ban right turns on red, but also to enforce it. Quick video from today: in just 50 seconds, five drivers ignored the ‘No Turn on Red,’ and the last one came in at full speed, noticing a pedestrian only at the very last moment.

Narrow sidewalks, overgrown vegetation, and a crosswalk almost always blocked by drivers shouldn’t be the default way to cross I‑5 in Wallingford

Passing by the Shoreline N 185th Station, I noticed that 4 of the 8 lockers are pretty high up. I didn’t have time to stop and try them; do they have some kind of device to lift bikes? Otherwise, with more and more people riding e‑bikes, it seems pretty challenging to use the top lockers.

100% agree with this. the SPS plan not only makes the park less functional - it also makes it less accessible. the path along the bmx jumps is used by joggers cyclists trying to avoid the dangerous 5-way intersection @ 50th and green lake way. for cross country events. by kids learning to bike.

The good kind of service alerts

Daylighting! This should be the default place for bike-share parking.

New traffic signals (with dedicated left‑turn cycles from N 45th) and ‘No Turn on Red’ signs in all directions are now live in the core of Wallingford!

Good progress on the construction of the protected bike lane leading to the future Pinehurst station. 🚊 🚶‍♀️ 🚲 🌲

Judging by the bike parking at the new-ish Seattle Convention Center Summit building, LEED Platinum doesn’t guarantee good bike parking. It was hard to find a spot that worked for my cargo bike. “Staple” racks will be so much better, and for an upgrade, why not adding some BikeLink lockers?

Improvements would be welcome here. I passed by this afternoon and saw 2 cars and a FedEx van parked in the bike lane… This is, in my opinion, one of the most frequently misused bike lanes in the city

Another spot where the concrete barriers have shifted.

I understand that sometimes we need to do (unplanned?) repairs, but I don’t think we’d close an entire road without any signs or detours.

We’ll have trains running on a floating bridge, but we also have trolley buses on drawbridges. First time I’ve noticed the electric‑wire management; that’s pretty cool.

The aerodynamics of a cargo bike (or the lack of them) are interesting. These days I don’t use the kid’s canopy (so the bike fits in BikeLink boxes), and while I’ve been soaked a couple of times, my kid in the back has stayed nearly dry in my slipstream.

We couldn’t join the critical mass ride yesterday, but we joined the Greenwood resistance march. It was good to see so many neighbors out in solidarity with Minnesota.

With the right design, even UPS doesn’t park in the bike lane

The gap on 5th Ave N is taken up by a gorgeous parking lot owned by Seattle Public Schools, and part of it is currently closed due to construction. This would be a great spot for a pop‑up bike lane during the World Cup

Eastlake Ave E Bike Lane: the first intersection in the video would benefit from a ‘No Right on Red’; and the second either a ‘No Turn’ restriction or the removal of parking to improve visibility and reduce the risk of right‑hook collisions