Cripes, I'd rather Seattle re-pave the damn roads first. It is so fucking bumpy out there... It's almost worth making a map to indicate terrible/smooth roads, over a "bicycle master plan". And it's not just potholes either, the road surfaces are degrading significantly.

And I would like Bagshaw to reach into her fucking wallet and pay for it in proportion to her wealth and not screw everybody so she can fucking grandstand.

Tri-Cities already has a robust, well developed bicycle network. They have separate pedestrian and bike lanes in parks and in some cases even have two bike lanes -- one for each direction.

I visited there and saw it first hand! Plus the landscape is relatively flat with a low grade as you get further from the rivers that converge near the centers of the three cities.

Tri-Cities Trails:

http://www.bfcog.us/Bk11x17.pdf

Seattle will never have a good safe bicycle network.

Because it is too dense.

Too hilly.

And too corrupt.

I don't even ride and it's painfully obvious that something more than "sharrows" has to be done. Take SW Avalon, or the "death sluice" as I like to call it. Steep grade, blind turns, on-street parking both ways from the top to the bottom, ongoing apartment construction, major bus corridor, frequent turns agains traffic, AND this is the last leg out of West Seattle for most of the bikers heading downtown who don't live in Admiral. Bikers deserve better.

step one for turning Seattle into Amsterdam: get rid of all these @#$'n hills in Seattle! Amsterdam is flat flat zo erg plat! lets resolve this anti-bicycle issue first. (-then- everyone is issued a bicycle and some tulips)

Six months ... Adapt or Die!

Hey now, we elected Mayor Murray because he opposed bikes and bike lanes, just like you said. Don't change horses mid-stream on me now.

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archive…
Based on their fundraising and signs, it sure looks like Murray's their guy to stop bike lanes—and appears to me that he's raising money with an implicit promise that once he's mayor, he'll retroactively scotch plans for bike lanes and prevent new bike lanes from being planned.

Could Seattle please consider establishing a single Transportation Master Plan? Wouldn't that make a lot more sense than a shelf full of plan fragments for bicycles, pedestrians, public transit, freight mobility, etc. etc. etc.?

You could call it comprehensive planning -- wow, what a concept!

Wait wait wait.. slow down there, Citizen R! Easy does it. You want a comprehensive "Transportation" Master Plan? My god. Might as well ask God to hand over the keys to Heaven. Given that we have three different bus companies, "Rapid Ride" buses, an incomplete light rail that is being fought tooth & nail in B'vue (by classist-racists no less), at least two separate trolly systems, private shuttles (Microsoft &c.), a 2-mile monorail, a patchwork of bicycle improvements, zero street signage on the Burke-Gilman or Myrtle-Edwards trails, and a degrading street surface everywhere... you want comprehensive? Are you even from here? </sarcasm>

@4- I don't know why I bother replying to you but here goes:

Density makes cycling safer. The denser a city is, the less cars per capita there are, the slower cars are travelling on average, the safer bikes are. Sprawl is the worst thing for humans because the infrastructure is for cars. I'm sure lots of families in the Tri-Cities enjoy driving their bikes on top of their cars to the park and then cycling in circles, but that has fuck all to do with transit.

It's worse than it looks, Ansel. That's me piloting that pinko minivan with the evil Hello Kitty bag up front. There are TWO kids on that thing! And two more on my friend's bike a dozen feet behind us! And those kids aren't terrified! They are plotting! They are scoping out who's cars we will be taking next in our War on Christmas! Er, Cars!

@MrBaker - Luckily bike infrastructure is by far less expensive than building new roads, light rail, or sidewalks. Plus, bike infrastructure can be built/implemented far more quickly -- creating a network of protected bike lanes and slow-speed residential streets that everybody will feel safe riding -- which is a very good thing as 60% of Seattleites say they'd bike more often if they felt safer biking -- and biking is the least expensive way to get around (other than walking).

@CitizenR - Yes, Mayor Murray is working to develop a Freight Master Plan, update the Pedestrian Master Plan, and integrate these plans (as well as the Bike Master Plan & Transit Master Plan) in an update the city's overall "Transportation Strategic Plan," which will inform the 2015 update to the Transportation Element of the city's Comprehensive Plan. So yes, there's plenty of planning going on, included integrated, comprehensive planning.

@dwightmoodyforgetsthings - you speak the truth.

@DaveyOil - You and your kids onto something.