WELCOME

Shoreline New Cycle Track

JUNE 2013

Fremont Avenue N Improvements OPEN HOUSE

Green Lake

Lake Union

Seattle Center Downtown

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Existing Trac Circle Locations and Distance Between JUNE 2013

Fremont Avenue N Improvements
1,300'
N 105th St

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270' block spacing

N 100th St

Greenwood Ave N

650'
N 95th St

Fremont Ave N

1,300'
N 90th St

1,300'
N 85th St

270' block spacing

N 80th St

N 77th St

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Aurora Ave N

650'

Street Characteristics and Trac Data

JUNE 2013

Fremont Avenue N Improvements

NB: typical speed 24 mph SB: typical speed 25 mph ADT: 675
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Width: 25' Curbs: no

Greenwood Ave N

N 105th St

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N 100th St

NB: typical speed 25 mph SB: typical speed 26 mph ADT: 487
Fremont Ave N Aurora Ave N

Width: 25' Curbs: yes

N 95th St

Width: ~23' Curbs: no Width: ~23' Curbs: west side only

N 90th St

NB: typical speed 27 mph SB: typical speed 27 mph ADT: 1,229
N 85th St

Width: 25' Curbs: yes

N 80th St Legend NB - Northbound SB - Southbound ADT - Average Daily Trac

N 77th St

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Speed Hump Locations and Community Destinations

Planned Speed Humps Existing Speed Humps Existing Traffic Circles

JUNE 2013

Fremont Avenue N Improvements

N 105th St

Transit Stops

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Greenwood Ave N

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N 100th St

Fremont Ave N

N 95th St

Greenwood Park N Seattle Boys and Girls Club

N 90th St

Transit Stops
N 85th St

Greenwood Library
N 80th St

N 77th St

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Aurora Ave N

Seattles First Urban Cycle Track

Why Cycle Track?
Seattles Bicycle Advisory Board (SBAB) took a bikeability tour of the area and was of the opinion that traveling from a multi-use trail to surface streets with sharrows created an unwelcome and unsafe experience for novice cyclists. The citys goal is to make cycling a comfortable part of everyday life and filing in this missing gap would increase the comfort for inexperienced cyclists as they travel this important north-south recreation and commuter corridor. The existing public right-of-way on Linden Ave N and the lack of existing built infrastructure created an opportunity to build adequate and safe facilities for pedestrians and bicyclists. With low traffic and transit volumes and increased residential density, the prioritization for bicyclist and pedestrians for right-ofway space become clear. SBAB recommended a two-way cycletrack on Linden Ave N to fill in the missing link to the multi-use trail and to keep the ride consistent for cyclist. With a two-way cycle track there is minimal difference when riding from the multi-use Interurban Trail to the Linden Ave N cycle track.

From Interurban rail tracks to cycle tracks on Linden Ave N

Physical Separation=Parking + Curb

Project Background

Linden Ave N connects N 128th Street to Shoreline at the Seattle city limits at N 145th Street. The unimproved corridor consisted of a 25-feet-wide, unmarked asphalt roadway flanked mostly by gravel shoulders or pot-holed right-of-way, much of it taken up by cars housing the homeless. Amid increasing senior and multi-family housing an additional 1,204 units between 1995 and 2008 the need for a more livable community was clear.

Existing Conditions

The Interurban Trail is a bikeway linking downtown Seattle to Shoreline. It is a mixture of bike paths, bicycle greenways, and multi-use paved trails and is marked throughout by wayfinding signs.

The 17-block long stretch of Linden Ave N at N 128th Street to Linden Ave N at N 145th Street was the missing bicycle link of the Interurban Trail that runs from Seattle to Shoreline. This historic corridor once was home to the Interurban Rail line that connected downtown Seattle to the Bitterlake Playland Amusement Park during the 1950s. As the rail line was abandoned, the city turned the corridor into a paved multi-use trail that provides a physical separation from traffic for bicyclists.

The existing Linden Ave N roadway was underdeveloped, without curbs or sidewalks and was a mixture of undefined parallel and diagonal parking. The right-of-way appeared large and undefined; neighbors complained of speeding. Traffic and transit use was low as one block to the east is State Route 99 (Aurora Ave N) which carries most of the north-south volume in the area.

Design of Two-way Track

Physical Separation=Parking + Gutter Physical Separation=Parking + Striping

Therese Casper, Project Manager

therese.casper@seattle.gov