From the Seattle Times’s veteran transportation reporter, Mike Lindblom:
The Seattle City Council voted unanimously Monday to overhaul its Bicycle Master Plan, to provide separated bike lanes as well as a network of calm backstreet routes known as greenways.
The 2014 version is meant to serve what Councilmember Sally Bagshaw likes to call “willing but wary” riders. That’s a shift from earlier thinking — to apply pavement icons and bike lanes to busy streets, to establish that cyclists deserve their share of the road. …
The plan calls for 474 miles of new or improved bike routes, at a cost of about $20 million a year for 20 years. Half would be greenways, plus 102 miles of bike lanes separated from traffic, and 32 miles of off-street trails.
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With the usual rant-fest in the comments.
I was looking at this last night. It is an extremely ambition plan. Many of the proposed routes are separated bike lanes, on Broadway, through downtown, South Lake Union and up to the northern and southern borders of the city. Added to that is a more bike paths through parks and a large network of neighbourhood greenways. It’s so ambitions that I’m surprised that City Council approved it. It will however, take a long time to fund and build.