Complete with colorful digital filters and titles that fly in and spin, this Seattle Engineering Department promotional video is a wonderful time capsule of early 1990s Seattle bicycle policy. The video is mostly aimed at agencies from other cities looking to emulate Seattle’s relatively successful Bicycle Program. In the process, it presents the state of bicycling in the best possible light. You can find the original video on the Seattle Municipal Archives website.

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