The addition of protected bike lanes around Green Lake has been a huge leap forward for mobility, but the western part of the loop had remained unconnected and incomplete. That gap is about to be closed. The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has added concrete barriers to Aurora Avenue creating protected bike lanes out of a little used general purpose lane that disappears at the next intersection.
Here’s what riding on the new facility is like via a test run I took on Saturday. Passing highway traffic safely behind concrete barriers will be a new sensation for people biking.
