Saturday, October 25 at 10:30am
The project is (basically*) done and now it’s time to celebrate!
Come for food, drinks, and the chance to meet many of the people involved in getting this fantastic new bike path built, including advocates, elected officials and others. See the 200+ newly-planted trees, and hear about art that will be added next year. SDOT is planning to turn on the new bike counter, so let’s turn out and get some impressive numbers logged!
From SDOT:
Join us in celebrating the end of major construction for the East Marginal Way Corridor Improvement Project!
What: Celebration event with a ribbon cutting, tabling by community partners, and free food and drinks! This is the last stop for Hot Bike Summer – If you have been following along, bring your passport to collect your prize!
Where: E Marginal Way S and S Hanford St (map)
When: Saturday, October 25, from 10:30 AM to 12 PM
Ride with a group: Bike or scoot to the event with our partners at Cascade Bicycle Club, West Seattle Bike Connections and Best Side Cycling.
Ride from Seacrest Park in West Seattle
Ride from the Seattle Ferry Terminal in Downtown
West Seattle Bike Connections members will also lead a ride from the Alaska Junction.
Meet in the Wells Fargo Parking Lot at 44th/Alaska at 9:00-9:30am
This ride departs at 9:30am
*The segment on the east side of the street between Spokane St and Horton St will open in early 2026.
Come ride to the celebration! This is a game-changer for riding a bike to/from West Seattle to and from SODO, Pioneer Square, the central waterfront, downtown and beyond. It is much of a change as the bike highways at the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
Here are some of many groups and individuals who made this possible:
West Seattle Bike Connections: Don Brubeck, Paul Dieter, Jodi Connolly, Bob Winship, Bob Anderton, Bob Weeks, Bill Gobie, David Whiting, Joe and Marlowe Laubach, Tamara Kim Schmautz, Kathy Dunn, Al Jackson, Sakaru Tsuchiya, Theresa Beaulieu, Stu Hennessey, Paul Buchanan, Aili Lepard, Mike Hendrix, David Geoffrion, Sonia Honeydew, Brian King, Doug Ollerenshaw, Jim Graham, Tan Truong, Scott Amick, and our current leader, Kate Wells.
Northwest Seaport Alliance: Christine Wolf, Sr. Planner (retired)
Port of Seattle: Geri Poor, Regional Transportation Manager. Bari Bookout.
SDOT, Chief Traffic Engineer Dongho Chang and Project Managers Jessica Murphy and Megan Hoyt. Directors Scott Kubly and Gregg Spotts.
Seattle Freight Advisory Board and the Bicycle Advisory Board.
Cascade Bicycle Club. Vicky Clarke, Tamar Shuhendler, Kelsey Mesher, Kelli Refer. Max Buchanan and Craig Benjamin and the 2012 Advocacy Leadership Institute cohort esp. Merlin Rainwater, Barbara Gordon, Theresa Beaulieu, Shannon Koller.
Seattle Neighborhood Greenways: Cathy Tuttle, Gordon Padelford, Clara Cantor.
Alon Bassok, Brian Wood, Larry Leveen, and classmates at UW CE 563 Transportation Choices – Modal Conflicts study
Seattle Mayors: McGinn, Murray, Durkan, Harrell
Seattle City Council members: Tom Rasmussen, Mike O’Brien, and Lisa Herbold.
US Senator Maria Cantwell.
Tom Fucoloro from Seattle Bike Blog. Ryan Packer from The Urbanist.