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No Cars Allowed

Four city routes we want for bikers and walkers.

Allison Williams
Author: Allison Williams
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① Lake Washington Boulevard
The scenic road is closed to cars for 12 Sundays this year—can’t we make that permanent?

② Fairview Avenue
If we kicked the motor vehicles off this stretch in Eastlake, we’d have a complete car-free loop around Lake Union. We’re even willing to share the University Bridge!

③ The Viaduct
New York City turned its crumbling raised railway into a very thin, popular park; while Bertha (maybe) inches out a replacement tunnel, couldn’t we use one layer of the waterfront viaduct for cycle traffic?

④ Magnolia Boulevard
Picture this: a ride from Downtown Seattle to Discovery Park, all on bike-only trails. It’d be a tourist favorite, with detours to some of the city’s prettiest outdoor stairs.

 

Published in the City Trails issue of Seattle Met.




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Allison Williams
Allison Williams
Since joining Seattle Met in 2011, Allison Williams has overseen the magazine’s travel and outdoor coverage, including deep dives into Olympic National Park, the Columbia River, and a Burger King drive-thru in Canada. She edits the travel-focused blog Tripster and contributes service, news, interview, and narrative pieces to the magazine, including long-form features about mountain mysteries and puppies in prison. She’s earned awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and been nominated for a City and Regional Magazine award.  Allison was raised here in Olympia and studied writing at Duke University, Oxford University, Columbia Journalism School, and University of Alaska. She began her career in New York City in the newsrooms of Metro newspaper and Time Out New York, then hightailed it back to her native habitat so she could write guidebooks and climb mountains.