The City Needs Bike Boulevards

We're not always fond of traffic calming techniques. Our reasoning is that traffic calming often makes a street near-useless for any purpose other than neighborhood parking. If the City is going to impose traffic calming on so many streets, at least it could do what Portland does and make the traffic-calmed streets useful for other purposes, like biking:

Happily, the Bicycle Master Plan provides for bicycle boulevards of Seattle's own. Unhappily, the Plan calls for only 18.1 miles of bicycle boulevards. More! More! More!