The secret is out: Cascade Bicycle Club will be naming me the 2023 recipient of their Doug Walker Award as a person who “has improved lives through bicycling.”

Folks with tickets to the sold out Bike Everywhere Breakfast May 4 downtown will be able to watch me get the award and hear me deliver a short acceptance speech before WSDOT Traffic Engineer Dongho Chang’s keynote.

I am honored to get this award. It’s part of what’s shaping up to be a big year for me and Seattle Bike Blog. With my book due out in August, many years of work is all culminating in 2023 it seems.

I’m also working on a long-needed redesign of this site, which will make it work better on mobile and tablet screens while also having flexibility for trying out new ideas. Stay tuned, because there will be opportunities for you all to weigh in on what you would like to see from Seattle Bike Blog going forward. As Seattle’s biking social media communities continue to spread out further into many different and distinct online spaces, I’ve already noticed that Seattle Bike Blog is serving as something of an informal connecting thread between them, which is pretty cool. One of my goals is to further embrace this role.

Meanwhile, we have a very interesting and important couple years ahead of us as a Seattle bike movement, and I look forward to covering it all here. As always, thank you for reading.