Bicycling

Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) will host an open house to discuss the Wallingford Neighborhood Greenway installation on Thursday, December 8, from 6:00-7:30pm in the Commons at Hamilton International Middle School (1610 N. 41st St). Everyone is invited to learn more about the construction and use of the first segment. The Wallingford Neighborhood Greenway will start at Latona Ave NE and NE 44th Street. The greenway will travel west on NE/N 44th Street and turn south onto Burke Ave N. From Burke…

The folks involved in the Wallingford Greenway project will be meeting next Wednesday, October 12, from 6:30-8:30pm at Mosaic Den (4401 2nd Avenue NE). It's open to the public and it's a dinner potluck so bring something to share and help the group plan beyond the East-West segment that will be completed this year. Cathy "Greenway" Tuttle explains the meeting's agenda: We need to plan a complete Wallingford Greenway network beyond the one mile East-West segment that will be completed this year.…

Seattle Department of Transportation data identifies the block of Dick's Drive-In (111 NE 45th St) as 2010's most hazardous intersection for bicyclists, reports seattlepi.com. Four collisions involving bicycles happened at this site last year, and six over the last three years. Fortunately, none were fatal. I walked the two blocks to Dick's Thursday evening to watch bikes and cars. I saw several bikes come downhill in the street, a couple ride uphill on the sidewalk (legal in Seattle), and a few…