May is Bike Everywhere Month! Look for PSRC’s Bike to Work celebration station in Seattle on Wednesday, May 14 from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. We’ll be on the 2nd Avenue plaza (bike lanes) side of the 1201 Third building.
PSRC encourages and celebrates all things bicycling, but not everyone has a safe, comfortable place to bike. There are over 1,000 miles of major roads (classified as principal arterials) in the regional transportation network. About one in three of those roads (36%) have some sort of bicycle facility, like bike lanes or paved shoulders. But many are just partial facilities. Only 23% of these streets have bike lanes or shoulders on both sides of the road.
There are four main facility types on the region’s arterials: paved shoulders, striped bike lanes, buffered bike lanes and protected bike lanes. Each type offers cyclists different degrees of comfort and protection.
The region also has 477 miles of shared use paths in its growing bike facility network, like the Interurban and Burke Gilman trails. These are separate from roads.
Read more about bike facilities in the latest Puget Sound Trend.