Author: Tom Fucoloro
Biking Uphill in the Rain is a finalist for the 2024 Washington State Book Award
I am honored to learn that the Washington State Library’s Center for the Book has selected my book Biking Uphill in the Rain: The Story of Seattle from behind the Handlebars as a finalist for the 2024 Washington State Book Awards. It’s one of six books in consideration for the general nonfiction award. “The Washington…
Gone bikin’
Gone family bike camping. Be back next week!
tagged: bike camping
‘Our kid is biking on MLK!’
The new bike lanes on MLK Jr. Way from S Judkins Street to Mount Baker Station feel like a shortcut. It’s both more direct and more gradual than any of the alternative bike route options previously available. You no longer need to scale the cliffside up to Leschi to get between Franklin High School and…
Alert 8/24: 520 Trail closed across the Lake Washington Saturday
The 520 Trail across the Lake Washington will be closed from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, August 24, from Montlake to Evergreen Point. While the roadway is closed all weekend, crews will keep the trail open during the night and on Sunday. Meanwhile, the new walking and biking path over SR-520 in Montlake is…
Seattle decided 9 years ago to kill the SLU Streetcar
The South Lake Union Streetcar broke down Friday, August 9, and nobody even noticed until King County Metro and SDOT sent out a press release about it the next Monday. Like, I searched through social media posts and could not find a single person mentioning issues riding the streetcar line the entire weekend that it…
$115/mo for an electric cargo bike? Wombi launches bike subscription service in Seattle, sets up in the old G&O space
Electric cargo bikes are incredible machines that can do a lot of what a car can do (and a lot a car can’t do) for a fraction of the cost. They are also a lot of fun. But even though $2,500 to $8,000 is not very much money compared to buying a car, it is…
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