Bicycle Urbanist Cycles Seattle

As part of the opening of Futurama Redux: Urban Mobility After Cars and Oil, Florian Lorenz, Executive Director of Smarter than Car joined Tom Fucoloro (The Seattle Bike Blog) and myself for a short bike tour of Seattle. The objective was to show Florian some of the challenges and opportunities that face area transportation planners.

Floran Lorenz (green jacket) and Tom Fucoloro of the Seattle Bike Blog discuss Rainier Ave. under the I-90 overpass.

We cycled a route from the west end of the I-90 bike tunnel, down to Pioneer Square, then up 2nd to Seattle Center:

Tom is fluent with Seattle’s transportation infrastructure and introduced the issues at each of our stops. Under the Alaskan Way Viaduct Tom and Florian discussed the current plan to build a nine-lane surface roadway rather than a park and multiuse trails that would arguably provide greater benefit to tourists and residents.

Futurama Redux is showing now through February 17 at the Center for Architecture & Design.

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