EVERETT — Halfway through a 30-year implementation period of its bicycle master plan, the city of Everett is about halfway done with the projects laid out in the plan, city staff said in an April 8 committee meeting.<\/p>\n
In 2011, the city approved the bicycle master <\/a>plan<\/a>, a 133-page document that laid out dozens of planned improvements to biking infrastructure across the city, including trails and bike lanes.<\/p>\n Since the plan was approved, the city has built about 41 miles of on-street bike infrastructure and 23 miles of off-street projects like trails, city engineer Tom Hood said on April 8. The city has completed 25 projects listed in the plan, including a connection between 41st Street and Everett Station, new bike lanes along 112th Street and completing trails along Marine View Drive.<\/p>\n The city also completed work on a bike connection along Hoyt Avenue, connecting the north end of the city to the Interurban Trail, which provides a direct bike path between Everett and Seattle. Since 2023, the city has also added new wayfinding signage, along with bike lanes along West Casino Road, Fleming Street and Madison Street.<\/p>\n Sixteen more projects are expected to be built by 2030, Hood said. Those include bike lane projects on 12th Street, California Street, and on a newly built North Broadway Pedestrian Bridge, along with new city bike and data collection efforts.<\/p>\n Council member Luis Burbano, a bicycle commuter and a longtime advocate for safer streets<\/a>, said that the city can still do more to improve cycling infrastructure, particularly in south Everett. The bike lanes the city installed on 112th Street, he said, are dangerous — traffic on that five-lane street is fast-moving and the bike lanes are narrow, right next to traffic. He also said more traffic calming measures could be installed in the south Everett area to prevent speeding drivers.<\/p>\n That 112th Street bike lane was built early in the implementation of the bike master plan, Hood said, and standards for cycling infrastructure in the city have since improved.<\/p>\n A national nonprofit, The League of American Bicyclists, awarded the city of Everett as a bronze-level bicycle friendly community — first in 2021 then again in 2025 — one of 10 other cities across the state that received the bronze level award. In a survey included with the report,<\/a> respondents were split as to the safety of biking in Everett — about 45% of respondents were satisfied with the city’s bike safety, while 39.2% were dissatisfied.<\/p>\n Other cities in the northwest of similar size to Everett, like Bellingham and Eugene, Oregon, have received gold ratings from the nonprofit.<\/p>\n Using support from federal funding<\/a>, the city hopes to update the bike master plan soon, combining plans for improved bicycle infrastructure with plans to improve pedestrian safety in a new Active Transportation Plan. That work, as part of the implementation of a broader street safety measure known as Vision Zero<\/a>, is expected to be completed by the end of 2027.<\/p>\n Will Geschke: 425-339-3443; <\/em>william.geschke@heraldnet.com<\/em><\/a>; X: <\/em>@willgeschke<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The city expects to update the plan to incorporate both cycling and pedestrian infrastructure by 2027. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1126,"featured_media":895559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1024],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-895558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-top-news","tag-transportation"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/heraldnet.com\/2026\/04\/15\/15-years-in-everett-keeps-working-on-bike-safety-plan\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"15 years in, Everett keeps working on bike safety plan","url":"http:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/2026\/04\/15\/15-years-in-everett-keeps-working-on-bike-safety-plan\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/2026\/04\/15\/15-years-in-everett-keeps-working-on-bike-safety-plan\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/04\/42021448_web1_L1-EDH-ColbyBikeLanes-260414.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/04\/42021448_web1_L1-EDH-ColbyBikeLanes-260414.jpg"},"articleSection":"Local News","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Will Geschke"}],"creator":["Will Geschke"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"HeraldNet.com","logo":""},"keywords":["transportation"],"dateCreated":"2026-04-15T21:25:00Z","datePublished":"2026-04-15T21:25:00Z","dateModified":"2026-04-15T21:25:34Z"},"rendered":"