Seattle loves connecting Downtown with protected bike lanes

Ever since the Second Avenue Protected Bike Lane was installed last September, hundreds of people have been thanking Mayor Ed Murray for his leadership to build it in record speed as the beginning of a network of protected bike lanes in downtown. 

In fact, nearly 1,000 people have signed "I ❤ Downtown Protected Bike Lanes" postcards, and we're about ready to deliver the postcards to Mayor Murray next Thursday during Cascade's Bike Everywhere Breakfast.

Don't want to miss out on thanking Mayor Murray? Sign your own postcard online right now.

To celebrate getting to 1,000 signed postcards, Rosalie Daggett and Lindsay Buzzo of the Connect Downtown team created this amazing video:

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Within the next few years, you'll be able to get almost anywhere you want to go Downtown on a protected bike lane, whether it's Pike Place Market, the Waterfront, Space Needle and EMP, Central Library, Pioneer Square, International District or even city hall. And whether you're an eight-year-old kid or her eighty-year-old grandmother, you'll feel comfortable getting there.

That's why everyone loves the vision and promise of the city of Seattle's "Center City Protected Bike Lane Network." The city of Seattle is just beginning the design for building about two miles of downtown protected bike lanes in 2016, and initial planning work for building out the entire network over the next few years.

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Back in 2014, Seattle was awarded $5.8 million to build out the network, which was just received this week. In addition, Amazon.com will fund a protected bike lane on 7th Avenue near their new buildings. To fully fund the rest of the downtown network though, Seattle voters will need to pass the Move Seattle Levy this fall.

Want to help build public support for protected bike lanes in Downtown? Be like Rosalie and Lindsay: sign the "I ❤ Downtown Protected Bike Lanes" postcard online and join the Connect Downtown team.