Tom FucoloroWatch: Best Side Cycling rides the E Marginal Way bikeway + Join us for a collab ride October 25
Hanoch Yeung calls them “one of the new best bike lanes in town.” The E Marginal Way bikeway is now open, and Yeung toured them in his latest video for Best Side Cycling.
He also reached out to Seattle Bike Blog and asked if we wanted to collaborate on a big group ride to meet up with the official opening celebration before making a very flat 14-mile loop around nearly all of the city’s Industrial District via the new bikeway, the Duwamish Trail, South Park, Georgetown and SoDo. Thanks to the E Marginal Way project as well as the recently-opened South Park to Georgetown and Georgetown to Downtown bike lanes, this loop around Seattle’s Industrial District is now almost entirely possible within protected bike lanes and trails. I’d say that’s worthy of a celebration.
It’s a no-drop ride, and all bikes and experience levels are welcome. Meet up in front of the Seattle Ferry Terminal 10 a.m. October 25.
From Best Side Cycling via Instagram.A side note about naming of the Industrial District: Colloquially, a lot of people refer to most of the Seattle Industrial District as “SODO” or, more accurately, “SoDo.” But “South of the Dome” (I confirmed this origin in 2022 in one of my favorite SBB Twitter threads) really only refers to the part of the Industrial District near the south end of the stadiums, and SoDo is not an official city designation. The boundaries are further obscured by the SODO Business Improvement District, which draws boundaries that extend further than just the areas directly south of the stadiums. Instead, the city’s official Geographic Indexing Atlas groups the industrial lands on both sides of the Duwamish River north of South Park and Georgetown as one big “Industrial District.” It also groups that those neighborhoods, the Industrial District and Harbor Island into one area (“Area 18“). If you’ve ever wondered why the mapping app on your phone sometimes refers to neighborhoods you’ve never heard of (I lived in the “Minor” neighborhood for six years and never once heard a person refer to it by that name), it’s probably because of this city atlas.
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