Author: Tom Fucoloro
WSDOT: Promised e-bike rebate program still far from launching
If you were waiting for Washington State’s rebate program to kick in before buying an e-bike, the state still has a lot of work to do before it is available. When it finally does launch at some undetermined point in the future, the state expects all 8,500 of them to be gobbled up quickly and…
At memorial bike ride for her husband, Rita Hulsman asked attendees to vote yes on the transportation levy she worked to strengthen
As captured on video by West Seattle Blog, Rita Hulsman chose to use her address to the crowd gathered Saturday for a memorial bike ride in honor of her late husband Steve to promote action to make sure traffic deaths like his do not continue happening to others (starts at 6:45 in the video): “Steve…
Seattle will pay $5.75M to two people who say streetcar tracks caused their bike crashes
Even after a series of widely-publicized crashes on the Jackson Street streetcar tracks years prior, the City of Seattle failed to make the street reasonably safe for people riding bikes. So after Janet Ball and Eric Boris crashed there in two separate incidents in 2019, they sued the city for negligence. The city settled the…
Alert 9/16-10/4: Snoqualmie Valley Trail closed north of Rattlesnake Lake
King County Parks will close the Snoqualmie Valley Trail between the Riverbend neighborhood and Rattlesnake Lake from September 16 to October 4. Unfortunately, there will be no official detour or temporary biking and walking route. The closure is needed so crews can repair a timber trail bridge structure memorably named bridge 2178-44. The Snoqualmie Valley…
Saturday: Cascade will host 3 rides in memory of Steve Hulsman
Cascade Bicycle Club is hosting a set of memorial rides 9 a.m. Saturday (September 7) “to celebrate the life of Steve Hulsman,” a longtime Cascade ride leader who was killed while biking on Marine View Drive in West Seattle in December. Hulsman loved riding difficult hills and measured his biking in feet of elevation rather…
Cascade: ‘Vote NO on I-2117 if you love bikes and trails’
One of the most important choices on November’s packed ballot will be rejecting I-2117, an irresponsible initiative backed by a wealthy conservative hedge fund manager that would obliterate funding for a laundry list of great things Washington State invests in like clean air, asthma prevention, wildfire prevention, Safe Routes to School, trails, ferries, public transit…
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- WSDOT: Promised e-bike rebate program still far from launching
- At memorial bike ride for her husband, Rita Hulsman asked attendees to vote yes on the transportation levy she worked to strengthen
- Seattle will pay $5.75M to two people who say streetcar tracks caused their bike crashes
- Alert 9/16-10/4: Snoqualmie Valley Trail closed north of Rattlesnake Lake
- Saturday: Cascade will host 3 rides in memory of Steve Hulsman
- Cascade: ‘Vote NO on I-2117 if you love bikes and trails’
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