City dragging its feet when it comes to bike lane improvements, blogger says

SEATTLE -- Tom Fucoloro, the author of the Seattle Bike Blog, joined Q13 FOX News This Morning to talk about bike lanes, cyclist crashes, and an unstable yet seemingly relationships between drivers and cyclists in the city.

Fucoloro spoke about the number of deadly collisions between cyclists and cars over the past three years in the city. He said the city knows how to make the streets safer for both cyclists and drivers, it just seems to be dragging feet when it comes to road improvements.

"The city has a plan to make changes," he said. "It just hasn't happened yet."

Rick Sheridan with Seattle's Department of Transportation said Fucoloro makes a case that the city is indeed moving forward with improvements. The city is just taking the appropriate steps before installation.

"I think he makes our case that the City is moving forward on a number of fronts (Center City bike network, Vision Zero) to make downtown safer," Sheridan said. "No one would want us to build a downtown protected bike lane network without appropriate time spent on data collection and analysis, public outreach and thoughtful design."

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