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Bike News Roundup: Ghost Bikes
It’s time for the Bike News Roundup! Actually, it’s well past time. I’ve apparently totally forgotten to do this since early October, so I’ve got what might be the biggest Roundup in Seattle Bike Blog history. Oops! I hope you weren’t planning to get much more work done today. First up, Ethan Brooks emailed me…
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Nobody should die while biking on Whidbey + Group installs ghost bike for Randall Lorraine
Randall Lorraine was biking on East Harbor Road near Freeland in the south end of Whidbey Island one month ago. It was a Thursday about 9:15 p.m on this idyllic road in a beautiful corner of the world when David Hinton struck Randall with his Lexus and killed him. Hinton was arrested on suspicion of…
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City will remove one of the Sher Kung ghost bikes
As news spread that a young and popular lawyer had died biking to work downtown, mourners came to 2nd and University to pay their respects. Many left flowers, some left notes. Two people brought ghost bikes. One person even left a copy of a book about fighting for LGBT rights, a cause Kung was dedicated…
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The Bike News Roundup is back again
It’s time for the Bike News Roundup! Or rather, we are long overdue for a Bike News Roundup. I got out of the groove on organizing the interesting bike and transportation related stories I read back in 2021 when, well, reading the news wasn’t very fun. I was working on my book, and the Bike…
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Seattle finally builds protected bike lane on stretch of Yesler where Desiree McCloud died in 2016
New pbl revisions on Yesler pic.twitter.com/nADh4npo2N — Dongho Chang (@dongho_chang) August 30, 2020 SDOT has installed protected bike lanes on Yesler Way between 14th and 12th Avenues, part of a project to further protect and separate the bike lanes from the First Hill Streetcar tracks in the area. But this two-block stretch fulfills a heavy…
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Sunday: Community celebration for opening of NE 65th St bike lanes
Details from the event listing: Unlike the new downtown tunnel for cars, we don’t have an expensive ad campaign to encourage people to use the new bike lanes on NE 65th St, so let’s create our own! Bike #Fix65th Sunday, April 7 Noon to 1:00 p.m. Meet at Third Place Books Depart noon and bike…
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