Month: May 2016

Bike Everywhere! It was fun to see and meet lots of bike riders going all directions this morning!  All shapes and sizes of riders and rides.  From Fauntleroy and White Center, Alki and Pigeon Point. To SODO, Harbor Island, Kent, Downtown, Pioneer Square, South Lake Union, UW, Queen Anne and Pill Hill.  Going to daycare and school. Going to work as accountants, building managers, landscape architects, environmental enforcemnent workers, transportation engineers, interior designers and architects, bike mechanics, small business owners, shipping company freight expeditors, school district staff, teachers, and bus drivers, volunteers, clerical workers, baristas, fashionistas, …

West Seattle Bike Connections hosted a celebration station where the trails meet under the West Seattle Bridge for the morning commute hours.  Bob Winship led the effort.  Cascade Bicycle Club and F5 sponsor the event. Alki Bike and Board and West Seattle Cyclery joined us to provide quick bike checks and adjustments. Nuun was there with sports drinks. WSBC volunteers baked cookies, brought fruit and other treats, and Starbucks donated coffee. A big thank you to all who made this happen and all who stopped or waved.

If you are just trying this out, know that it keeps getting easier more comfortable the more you ride! And we are here to make it safer, more connected and more comfortable.

More pix on the WSBC Flickr page.

Stop at our commute station!

from 6 to 9 AM at the west end of the Spokane Low Bridge, where the trails meet.

 

 

West Seattle Bike Connections members will be bringing homemade cookies and bars to power your ride. Besides baked goods, we will have coffee, other beverages, bananas, bicycling information and on-the-spot bike checks and simple repairs courtesy of Alki Bike and Board.

We look forward to seeing you!

A record number of people crossed the Spokane St Bridge by bike today.  More are finding  this is a good, reliable way to avoid Viadoom.
Previous high was 1,847, set on May 14, 2014.  Today, it was 2,525!

With nice weather and Viaduct closure incentive, we should be able to set a monthly record for May!

Lots more people are riding bikes to get to other places in West Seattle, too. They just don’t cross this bridge.

The counter counts each one-way trip. That is the same way that vehicle traffic counts are done.  You can see average annual weekday counts on Seattle traffic flow maps here. The Spokane St Bridge average weekday traffic count was 10,300 in 2014.  2,000 bikes is about 20 percent of the number of car and truck crossings on the low bridge.  Not insignificant.
The high bridge count is about 10 times that. Each person on a bike is one less car or bus seat on the high bridge. It makes a difference for everyone on the road.

 

Count data is available from SDOT here, or by clicking the link in the upper right corner of our home page.