Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Bike-friendly streets planned for West Seattle

From the westseattleherald.com

The city of Seattle released a plan to make West Seattle streets more inviting for bicyclists, with painted bike lanes, hill-climbing lanes and stretches of road for bicyclists to share with motorists.

The Seattle bicycle master plan recommends 5-foot-wide bike lanes be painted on the sides of arterial streets throughout the city to designate they are "for preferential use by bicyclists." That includes many West Seattle "ways:" Admiral, Fauntleroy, Delridge, Avalon and Sylvan.

Other candidates for bike lanes are 16h, 35th and 48th avenues, plus Roxbury and Barton streets.

Designated climbing lanes would be painted on uphill sections of Barton Street, 48th Avenue, Lincoln Park Way and Marine View Drive.

The plan also recommends 34th Avenue Southwest be designated a "bicycle boulevard," from Roxbury Street north to Holly Street. The slower pace bike route would continue through High Point, head east on Brandon Street to run north on 26th Avenue.
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