Just the other day, we had to jump aside for a couple bicyclists who rode up the sidewalk in front of Pete’s Coffee. As you may have noticed, there are no bike lanes between 34th and 35th streets on Fremont Ave. Scott Henry wrote the Seattle PI and asked why there’s a gap there. After all, the rest of Fremont Ave. has bike lanes — some of them brand new — extending all the way to Phinney Ridge. But SDOT says there’s not enough room for bike lanes on that particular stretch, suggesting that bikes move into traffic, instead.
The bus stops on both sides of the road also complicates matters. Drag the photo above to take a look around.
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1 Glenn Fleishman // Nov 25, 2008 at 9:02 am
It’s traffic magic! Poof, the bikes get from here to here without any intervening riding.
The city used to have a number of places (notably near the Safeway pit on Stone Way) where bikers were thrown in with cars and then back out with no indication of what to do.
2 vanderleun // Nov 25, 2008 at 11:44 am
Why the gaps — in Fremont and elsewhere?
To cull the herd.
3 Rey T. Fox // Dec 20, 2008 at 8:28 pm
And then the wanna-be Lance Armstrongs have the nerve thinking they own the Burke-Gilman trail, barking at pedestrians, even though they ride on the walker’s portion all the time.
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