The Pike/Pine Renaissance Plan redesigns the Pike/Pine corridor between 1st and Melrose (or Bellevue) with an emphasis on pedestrian comfort and placemaking. The one-way streets extend up to Melrose (or Bellevue), and include one-way protected bike lanes on the left side of the street.

(That is, the westbound lane on Pine is on the south side of the street, and the eastbound lane on Pike is on the north side of the street, continuing the configuration SDOT started between 2nd and 6th.)

The Pike/Pine Renaissance bike lanes end where our focus area begins, and one consideration with the potential alignments on Pike is how eastbound cyclists will move from the Renaissance lanes to the eastern lanes, especially if the eastbound lane continues on the south side.

Pike/Pine Renaissance is a project of the Downtown Seattle Association and the City of Seattle’s Waterfront project. It's downtown-focused, but the plan goes from market to market (Pike Place Market to Melrose Market).

Many people bike west on Pine between Broadway and 2nd, in part because the street is one-way westbound downtown and in part because there are painted bike lanes on Pine. So it makes sense that we'd assume westbound lanes would be on Pine.

The City considered making Pike and Pine one-way all the way to Broadway and continuing the bike lanes from downtown on the same side of each street. But making Pike and Pine one-way would mean rerouting buses onto Pike that currently travel on Pine -- and rerouting those buses would require new trolley wires, which would likely cost tens of millions of dollars.

If the buses aren't rerouted, it's very challenging to find space on Pine to install a protected bike lane and provide adequate space for bus loading and unloading. We've been told repeatedly that it's unlikely to happen. Since our goal is to understand the community's priorities and be able to advocate for them, we're focusing on the alignments that are likely to occur.

The scope of the project doesn't include changing the sidewalks. Widening the sidewalks, in particular, would be difficult with the limited space in the street. However, if we hear loud and clear that people in the community prioritize wider sidewalks over parking spaces or other allocations, we'll communicate that.

SDOT will have protected bike lanes, in some form, installed between 2nd and Broadway by the end of 2019. We expect the lanes between Broadway and Bellevue to be in their permanent position, though not in their final state. They'll probably be paint and posts in order to construct them quickly, with aesthetic improvements to come in the next couple of years.

The lanes between Bellevue and 6th will be temporary, and they may change periodically to accommodate traffic changes resulting from the construction of the Washington State Convention Center Addition. Sometime in the next few years, when construction of the Convention Center Addition is complete, the Pike/Pine Renaissance Plan will go into effect and the we'll have those lanes will become permanent.

The Convention Center Addition is in the Pike/Pine corridor. Because traffic flow will change during construction, any lanes put in between Bellevue and 6th now will likely need to change again. That's why they'll be temporary lanes for now.

The Convention Center Addition is also the source of the funding for the project. $10 million for Pike/Pine protected bike lanes between 2nd Ave and Broadway was included in the Community Package as part of the Washington State Convention Center public benefit.