SAVE 35th AVE NE

Please don't add a bike lane(s) to 35th Ave! Cyclists can use the shared greenway that was recently created on 39th!! More bike lanes on 35th would cause more congestion - and possibly add to unsafe driving conditions. Please do not add the bike lane(s)!

Please don't endanger our kids by putting in two bike lanes and routing cars on to side streets. 35th is already congested and this will make things much worse. Not to mention businesses who need parking. There is already a bike lane on 39th Ave NE which is much safer for bikers. Frankly, there aren't that many bikers to warrant this change.

Save our small businesses!! Please do not remove lanes and parking from 35th.

I am a bicycle commuter and have been for 20 years. I do not agree that designated bicycle lanes are beneficial on this street.

This area is already lacking parking. I own a business on 35th ave. This is not a business friendly plan nor will it work for most people. Not everyone is able to ride a bike. I wish I could. Why not keep bike lanes on the slower streets? If you are wanting "safety" that certainly makes more sense. When cars out number bikes by a great margin, this is social engineering. Your just making an already tense situation even worse.

The removal of parking will hurt the businesses!

While I am in favor of bicycle traffic, it's not a good idea on this narrow (especially between 55th & 65th streets), heavily traveled arterial and bus route.

SDOT measures bike traffic on 39th Ave NE @ NE 62nd Street: https://data.seattle.gov/Transportation/39th-Ave-NE-Greenway-at-NE-62nd-St/3h7e-f49s • Total bike traffic is in decline from almost 94,000 in 2015 to 54,000 in 2017, a 43% reduction. • The highest hourly bike volume ever recorded by SDOT at this intersection was 88 bikes at 5PM on 6/10/2015. • The highest hourly bike volume in 2017 was 53 bikes on 5/23, also at 5PM. • About 67% of all recorded bike traffic on weekdays happened between 5-10AM and 4-8PM. In 2017, bike traffic on weekdays was 45,445, with 33,000 during peak hours. As per SDOT, in 2009, about 15,000 vehicles used 35th Ave on any given weekday. Assuming no increase in car traffic volume on the last 7+ years, and assigning a similar distribution to that of bikes, we would expect up to 1,900 cars per peak hour, or 10,000 cars per day during peak hours. Considering 261 weekdays in a year, this amounts to 2.6 million cars during peak hours. Bike traffic would have to grow by almost 800% from 2017 figures to reach 10% of the average peak car traffic volume. I have not found any statistic that would suggest such growth would be possible. SDOT published a FAQ document that can be found here: http://www.seattle.gov/Documents/Departments/SDOT/MaintenanceProgram/35thAveNE/35thNE_2017_1026_FAQ_Update_FINAL.pdf In this document, SDOT acknowledges that adding dedicated bike lanes on 35th Ave will cause an increase in commuting time of 0.5 to 1.5 minutes during peak hours. Considering 10,000 cars during peak hours, the best scenario of 0.5 minutes per commuter yields 5,000 people-minutes wasted every weekday, or 1.3 million people-minutes per year, or almost 22,000 people-hours going up in smoke! Actually, going up in smog. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, a car burns 0.4 to 1.2 gallons of fuel per hour while idling. Assuming a conservative 0.5 gallons per hour while driving, we are looking at 11,000 incremental gallons

Get a clue. No viable alternatives to cars (aka monorail) = traffic jams and increased pollution due to way more stop/start traffic, side streets jammed w the cars not using 35th, bus passengers passed up by full busses during rush hour not getting to work on time... Message to SDOT leadership: stop padding your reumes with poorly conceived ideas. Instead, hire skilled and experienced traffic people from Munich, Paris, Berlin, etc. who do not have to reinvent the public transportation wheel.... Please, for once, do the right thing and hire qualified people to do the job.

PLEASE use non-arterial streets for bike lanes. It is NOT safe to have bike lanes on busy, high traffic streets - especially with bus traffic already!

Bikes are safer on side streets.

Inside every car is a pedestrian waiting to get out and hoping not to get run over in the process. Narrowing the roads (Roosevelt in particular) is an insane safety hazard.

Adding a bike lane on 35th is a safety hazard. It is already overcrowded with cars and pedestrians. Adding bicyclist will only create more distractions for drivers and cause more accidents. As a runner myself, I NEVER choose to run on the main road because there are so many side roads that are much more pleasant to run on and are better for my safety. Primarily, these side streets appeal to me because there is less traffic. I imagine bikers prefer the quieter and safer side streets too. Creating a bike lane on 35th will NOT reduce the traffic on 35th Street. It will only increase traffic on a street that is already overcrowded.

I am a daily bike commuter and I rode 35th for years twice per day. A dedicated bike pane is not needed and is a waste of funds. There is already a bike corridor two blocks away (which I use). Furthermore, the restriction on West Side parking during afternoon commute hours provides more than sufficient buffer for cyclists that do choose to ride this hill. Be responsible with our funds. A true benefit to the neighborhood would be to find a way to widen 35th!

We do not need more bike lanes! They are ruining neighborhoods and local businesses. Businesses need on street parking to survive. There are only a handful of bikers vs the tens of thousands of us who drive on 35th every day. They have alternatives. Not every street has to have a bike lane on it. The vast majority of the tax paying public is not going to be riding a bike; families, the elderly and professionals who have appointments all over the city and can't go to work in biking attire. Take the money and fill in all the potholes all over NE Seattle.

Please leave 35th alone!! It is already so congested.

I have signed and commented earlier in this process - question - How/When are these observations being communicated to Mayor Durkan and the City Council (not Rod Johnson) ?

As a Resident of Seattle for 55 Years, this is RIDICULOUS AND WOULD MAKE A NEGATIVE IMPACT ON THE ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD. THIS IS SIMILAR TO WHAT HAPPENED TO ROOSEVELT AVE-NO PARKING AND MANY BUSINESSES HAD TO LEAVE THE SITES THEY HAVE BEEN AT FOR DECADES.

Ridiculous to think that everyone will ride bicycles instead of driving in cars this takes a privilege group and and makes them the priority and trashing the majority of people's rights. Based on how many people ride bicycles in the majority of the city there's no reason they have to take a high density area and trash everybody's parking who owns houses like on 65th Street so if they have a one car driveway and your older relatives come over they have to cross a dangerous Street in order to get to your house because of the two bicyclists a day that go on 65th. I've been traveling to a small town in Eastern Washington name Sunnyside Washington they took one lane off Main Street and made up bicycling Lane in the 25 years that I've been going to this town I saw only two bikes list two girls 13 years old riding on the sidewalk this policy is 4-1 agenda and one agenda only to force everybody out of the cars by making it so expensive and so inconvenient I'm all for bicycle Lanes on side streets or in corridors near the University or on the way to parks where there's more bicyclist but if we don't stand up and take a stand about Sound Transit where nobody uses where the trolley nobody uses where bicycle Lanes nobody uses where the people that even vote for these things don't use. And we are paying for them all and the bike list do never gets traffic tickets and they do whatever they want I can't be more against this

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I commute by bike from Wedgwood to the UW, and I DON’T want bike lanes on 35th Ave. I use quiet avenues that run parallel to 35th. Like many recent bike lanes, these will just inconvenience thousands of drivers for no benefit at all to bike riders.