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Seattle Bike Dad 🚲 👨‍👧 @seattlebikedad.bsky.social · 1d

First time biking through Mountlake Terrace town center. Nice neighborhood, though the door-zone bike lane is not ideal…

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Seattle Bike Dad 🚲 👨‍👧 @seattlebikedad.bsky.social · 1d

First time taking our HSD on the light rail. It worked, but it’s a bit bulky, good thing the train wasn’t busy.
It was a great way to speed up a 10-mile trip north.

Front of the bike the bike storage area.

Bike next to the foldable seats , which was a much better way to not block the aisle

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Seattle Bike Dad 🚲 👨‍👧 @seattlebikedad.bsky.social · 1d

Again!! This would be a good location to add DUI checkpoints and reinforce this barriers

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Seattle Bike Dad 🚲 👨‍👧 @seattlebikedad.bsky.social · 2d

Agree! I’ve seen cars driving on the yellow curb ramps like this a couple of times

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Seattle Bike Dad 🚲 👨‍👧 @seattlebikedad.bsky.social · 3d

Half and half… I try to do as much as I can myself as the turnaround time is usually about a week with a bike shop and I need my bike everyday. But last time I got a full service at the bike shop the bike really felt like brand new and everything with so smooth …

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Seattle Bike Dad 🚲 👨‍👧 @seattlebikedad.bsky.social · 3d

We have a 2.7 miles, 18 feet diameter water tunnel that was built last year… this is larger than London subway tunnels, but it is just for storm water www.ees.us.com/project/spu-...

SPU Ship Canal Water Quality - EES

The Ship Canal Tunnel is designed to capture combined-sewer flows from the Ballard, Fremont, and Wallingford neighborhoods. The project is comprised of five

www.ees.us.com

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Seattle Bike Dad 🚲 👨‍👧 @seattlebikedad.bsky.social · 3d

If you’ve ever waited for the #44 stuck between Ballard and Wallingford, you know this would be transformational.

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Seattle Bike Dad 🚲 👨‍👧 @seattlebikedad.bsky.social · 3d

The bike still feels like new:)
With hills and rain, I have to change the break pads every 1000 to 1500 miles, as well as the chain (I changed it twice, and I am almost due for a new chain).
I also changed the tires that were pretty worn last year but overall everything is great.

miles.as

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Seattle Bike Dad 🚲 👨‍👧 @seattlebikedad.bsky.social · 3d

Missed the 5000-mile photo, but 5005 still feels like a milestone.
That’s 5005 miles since I got the bike back in January 2023.
It might not sound like much over 33 months compared to driving, but it covers nearly all my city trips, about 5 miles a day, even though I work from home 99% of the time.

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Seattle Bike Dad 🚲 👨‍👧 @seattlebikedad.bsky.social · 4d

Nice to see a new school street here. That reminds me that I really need to send a message to the principal of my kid’s school to suggest one.

Picture of NE Maple Leaf pl, with a “street closed” sign

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Seattle Bike Dad 🚲 👨‍👧 @seattlebikedad.bsky.social · 5d

Mini rainbow over Capitol Hill tonight; interesting, because it wasn’t even raining anywhere.

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Seattle Bike Dad 🚲 👨‍👧 @seattlebikedad.bsky.social · 5d

The best part of commuting from the Eastside is returning to Seattle by crossing the longest floating bridge in the world, with Lake Washington below and the city in the background. (Video speed: 4×, showing only part of the bridge crossing.)

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Seattle Bike Dad 🚲 👨‍👧 @seattlebikedad.bsky.social · 6d

Had an interesting interaction in Wallingford: a driver said I was fast because he’d seen me biking in Bellevue a little earlier. I was a little out of breath, but yep, even for 10 miles, e-biking is still pretty efficient.

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Seattle Bike Dad 🚲 👨‍👧 @seattlebikedad.bsky.social · 8d

“Officers arrested the 25-year-old SUV driver on multiple counts of assault with a deadly weapon”

Why are there so many dangerous drivers on our streets?

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Man rammed SUV into family van, catching it on fire, Seattle police say

Seattle Police arrested a 25-year-old man Saturday evening after allegedly ramming his car into a van with two children inside.

www.seattletimes.com

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Seattle Bike Dad 🚲 👨‍👧 @seattlebikedad.bsky.social · 8d

When I tried to grab a coffee at Lake City’s only coffee shop open on Sunday, the mayor was holding a rally there, so I went for a walk instead and checked how things have been going under his leadership

Lake City Mini park fenced, with the sign “don’t jail our parks”

Fred Meyer store with many empty shelves

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Seattle Bike Dad 🚲 👨‍👧 @seattlebikedad.bsky.social · 9d

Google Maps still thinks it is a parking lot

Screenshot of Google Maps showing this place as a parking lot

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Seattle Bike Dad 🚲 👨‍👧 @seattlebikedad.bsky.social · 9d

U-District is really a nice place for street parties. The k-pop (demon hunter) dance party brought lot of families to the U District Station Park

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Seattle Bike Dad 🚲 👨‍👧 @seattlebikedad.bsky.social · 10d

Just after seeing this, while another train was approaching, I saw other drivers turning right on red, despite a clearly posted sign prohibiting it.

Sign showing “no turn on red” due to train

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Seattle Bike Dad 🚲 👨‍👧 @seattlebikedad.bsky.social · 10d

Cruise traffic is insane. A car was stopped on the tracks and only avoided a train collision because another driver jumped out of his car to open the gate. This area clearly needs traffic officers.

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Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck @councilmember-amr.bsky.social · 13d

I was just as shocked with the news about the route 2 bus only lane as you. We are working on it. We need to prioritize pedestrian safety and not go backwards on our transit investments.

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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 13d

NEW STORY // What’s Easier than Adding a Bus Lane in Seattle? Deleting One
www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/01/w...

What’s Easier than Adding a Bus Lane in Seattle? Deleting One » The Urbanist

# The City of Seattle will be removing an East Union Street bus only lane set aside for the Route 2 this weekend, ceding to requests from nearby property owners who have complained about traffic chang...

www.theurbanist.org

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Seattle Bike Dad 🚲 👨‍👧 @seattlebikedad.bsky.social · 13d

Same problem on the other side: not 1 but 3 drivers stopping in the bike lane / bus stop. The Seattle Police cruiser passing by (after the bus), without doing anything was a good reminder that this is just business as usual…

Cars in bike lane and bus stop. Hard to see but a police cruiser was following the bus

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Seattle Bike Dad 🚲 👨‍👧 @seattlebikedad.bsky.social · 14d

Nice. Did you ever get a flat with either of these?
The only problem with the Tannus Armour was that it’s very hard to install. If I had to do it again, I’ll ask my local bike shop.

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Seattle Bike Dad 🚲 👨‍👧 @seattlebikedad.bsky.social · 14d

I think it was @jeremycole.bsky.social who pointed this out in a comment on X. Really appreciate the tip, I had no idea these were out there!

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Seattle Bike Dad 🚲 👨‍👧 @seattlebikedad.bsky.social · 14d

(Not a sponsored post) After two flats on Seattle streets, I installed tire “armours” last year. Yesterday, I heard a suspicious crunch while riding. When I checked the tires later, I found a glass shard (and a tack) embedded, but neither had pierced the armour. That’s real peace of mind!

Hard to see, but this is actually a small glass shard that poked a hole in the tire.

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