EDITOR’S NOTE: This week’s edition was posted to Seattle Bike Blog a week late. Sorry! So if you’re just now seeing this, our apologies that you missed all this fun stuff. Thanks again to Brock Howell of Bike Happy for putting together this comprehensive weekly newsletter.
TOP THINGS TO KNOW & DO
- On Saturday, you can join one of two rides to explore how historic racial redlining of Seattle neighborhoods shaped our communities (10am-1pm, 3-6pm).
- Plans are afoot for major changes at the Northgate Mall and in Bellevue’s Wilburton neighborhood for more compact development patterns, connected to transit, walking, and biking.
- Seattle’s One Center City Plan, which is supposed to improve transit and bike infrastructure in downtown, has been delayed.
SOCIAL, LIFESTYLE, & ADVENTURE
UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
- Thursday, Mar. 15
- Saturday, Mar. 17
- Thursday, Mar. 22
ARTICLES & POSTS
- “Turn a Skagit Tulip Festival tour into a good day of biking, hiking,” Seattle Times.
- “30 years of OutdoorsNW,” Lynden Tribune.
- “Rad Power Bikes hires former Amazon and L’Oréal leaders,” Cycling Industry News.
- “Luum helps companies get employees to commute another way,” PSBJ.
POLICY & INFRASTRUCTURE
ACTION
- Attend a Your Voice Your Choice Project Development Meeting to help select a small transportation or park improvement in your neighborhood.
- Tell the Seattle City Council you support better bicycle parking.
- Apply to have your building named best for bicycling parking in the Seattle region.
- Tell the King County Public Health Board to repeal the bicycle helmet law.
UPCOMING EVENTS
- Thursday, Mar. 15
- Tuesday, Mar. 19
- Tuesday, Mar. 20
- Wednesday, Mar. 21
- Thursday, Mar. 22
NEWS
- Bikeshare
- Former SDOT Director Scott Kubly is now Chief Program Officer at LimeBike (Seattle Times, GeekWire).
- People are keeping bikeshare bikes for themselves? (Stranger).
- Lime & ofo continue to expand in Seattle (Madison Park Times).
- Downtown
- The One Center City Plan, which includes protected bike lanes on 4th Avenue and transit improvements, is delayed. (STB).
- Mike Lindblom videoed a ride along the future 7th Ave Protected Bikeway (Seattle Times).
- Community design work for lidding I-5 in Downtown Seattle continues tonight (CHS Blog).
- WSDOT has started metering traffic from Mercer Street onto I-5. Has it changed your experience in crossing Mercer? (KOMO, Seattle PI).
- SDOT removed the hostile bike racks (Stranger).
- Facebook now has 2,000 employees, in its building on Dexter Ave N and Westlake Ave N, which has a bike shop (Seattle Times).
- North Seattle
- Neighbors speak up in favor of the 35th Ave NE safety project (Urbanist), while others continue to detract (KING5, .
- Simon Properties, owner of the Northgate Mall, has big plans for transforming America’s first regional mall into a transit-oriented development with residential and office buildings and a central park (Urbanist, Curbed, Seattle Times, DJC).
- SDOT is holding open houses about the Northgate Pedestrian Bridge this next week (Pinehurst).
- Eastside
- Bellevue is considering an impressive zoning change to the Wilburton neighborhood that will create smaller blocks and tie future development to the Eastside Greenway, formerly known as the Eastside Rail Corridor (STB).
- Snohomish & North King County
- Edmonds is taking public comment on designs for its new Edmonds Waterfront Connector bridge, and the designs reminiscent of sail boats are really quite wonderful (Edmonds Beacon).
- A person biking on Perkins Way in Lake Forest Park was struck and injured by a driver, who fled the scene (Sweet Law Group).
- Pierce County & South King County
- Burien is interested in connecting to King County’s regional trails network (B-Town Blog).
- Pierce County expects to complete a new bridge across the White River for the Foothills Trail between Enumclaw and Buckley by 2021, thanks to funding from the state legislature this year (Courier-Herald).
- Kitsap County
- Bainbridge may have a transportation levy on its fall ballot this year for funding for bike/ped improvements, and the Bainbridge Mobility Alliance has an online surveyto see what voters want in the package.
- Construction of a new West Kensington Bridge, which replaces a culvert and will add a bike lane to the road, continues to be plagued by contractor delays (Kitsap Sun).
- State Legislature
- New state law set for technology, use restrictions for e-bikes (Seattle Times, Urbanist).
- Read how WA Bikes / Cascade did in advocating for bikes in the state legislature this year (WA Bikes)
SPORT
UPCOMING EVENTS
- Saturday, Mar. 17
- 9am-5pm, 2018 Tour de Dung Circuit Series #2 (Sequim)
- Wednesday, Mar. 21
- 6pm, Seattle Bike Polo’s Beginner’s Night (Cal Anderson)
SAVE THE DATES
- 2018 Gorge Gravel Grinder, Apr. 8
- Washington Bike Summit, Apr. 29–30
- Bicycle Sundays: Twelve Sundays, May 20 – Sept. 16
BIKE INDUSTRY JOBS
Bike Retail
Sales Clerk, Aaron’s Bicycle Repair
Seasonal Bike Shop Mechanic, Bike Works
Seasonal Bike Shop Sales & Retail Assistant, Bike Works
Seasonal Recycle & Reuse Assistant, Bike Works
Mechanics & Retail Staff, Gregg’s Cycles
Nonprofit
Program Coordinator, Bike Works
Director of Development, Cascade
Volunteer Program Assistant (Seasonal), Cascade
Major Taylor Ride Leader/Instructor, Cascade
Business Relations, Policy & Operations Manager, Commute Seattle
Government
Principal Planner / Strategic Advisor, SDOT (3/27)
Public Space Management Inspector, SDOT
Traffic Records & Data Supervisor, SDOT
Supervising Project Manager, SDOT
City Center Program Manager, Lynnwood (3/18)
Senior Parks Planner, Kent (3/15)
Walk N Roll Teacher Assistant, Intercity Transit
STOLEN BIKES
Help fight back by (1) registering your bike on Bike Index, and (2) always locking up your bike with a U lock, even inside a bike room. Bicycle Security Advisors provides additional information on how to keep your bike safe.
TIP
Did you know drivers, when turning right, are supposed to first merge into the bike lane?
BIKE HAPPY MONTH
Thank you to the 26 people who contributed to Bike Happy Month and the 10 people who pledged to volunteer. We were able to raise $1,500 toward organizing the month of crowdsourced, DIY bike fun to close-out the 2018 summer, with a big street festival in Ballard to cap off the festivities. Using the dollars and hours raised as a match, the next step will be to apply for a city grant.
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