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EVERETT 2044 <br />COMPREHENSIVE PLAN <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> 6/17/2025 <br />COMPREHENSIVE PLAN <br />TRANSPORTATION ELEMENT <br /> Page 89 <br />Bicycles, Scooters, and Skateboards <br />Bicycling, scooting, and skating facilitate longer trips than walking with similar benefits to the <br />environment, individual health and wellbeing, and community livability. Bicycling infrastructure can <br />enable trips for people on bicycles, but also for people riding scooters, skateboards, or otherwise rolling <br />with varying levels of experience and confidence. <br />Everett’s existing bicycle network is shown in Figure 4. Bicycle facilities currently include striped bike <br />lanes, marked shared lanes, paved/striped shoulders, and off-street facilities. These facilities include <br />regional bicycle connections, such as the Interurban Trail, which connects to Lynnwood and trail systems <br />in King County. While there are conventional and buffered bike lanes on some roadways in the city, such <br />as sections of West Mukilteo Boulevard, E Marine View Drive, and Glenwood Avenue, there are many <br />gaps in the bicycle network and many of the facilities are not comfortable for users of all ages and <br />abilities. Moreover, cycletracks and buffered bike lanes provide a more significant buffer from traffic <br />than conventional bike lanes and broaden the population that can cycle to their destination safely and <br />comfortably when facilities and intersection treatments are present for most of the route. Much of the <br />city’s bike network provides little to no buffer from vehicle traffic and appeals only to extremely <br />confident cyclists, which constitute a very small share of Everett’s overall community. Since the passage <br />of its 2011 Bike Master Plan, the City has focused on building a network that is comfortable to cyclists of <br />all ages and abilities. Figure 4 shows progress made on that network since 2011.