So reports the Seattle Times. Maybe it's just the nice weather. But bicycle shops are reporting huge sales boosts, and we've noticed more bicyclists on the streets recently.
The City's Bicycle Master Plan will provide more infrastructure for bicyclists:
With a bike advocate in Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, city officials have approved a Bicycle Master Plan to promote commuting and recreational riding, via a network of bike lanes and trails. Nickels has said he wants to triple the use of bicycles in the city within a decade.
The Bicycle Master Plan identifies a goal of 143 miles of bike lanes by 2016 (there are currently 31 miles), along with making bike lanes at intersections more noticeable. The Seattle Department of Transportation counted 2,273 cyclists riding into downtown on one day last September during the morning rush hour.
That's great, but what we really want to see are more separated bike planes:
That we could get behind.
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