Category: news

November 22, 2023

Council passes budget with Mt. Baker, S Henderson safety projects + more

For a budget cycle with tough revenue projections, the City Council still added some excellent street safety projects and mostly protected safety efforts from cuts. The Council passed the 2024-25 budget Tuesday after weeks of hearings and debates. Highlights include $1.4 million to “transform the Mt. Baker station area into a safer and comfortable place…
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tagged: 2024 budget, accessible mt baker, city council, s henderson st, seattle neighborhood greenways, thomas street
November 21, 2023

Watch: Best Side Cycling rides Cranksgiving

Hanoch Yeung rode Cranksgiving for his first time and documented the whole thing. As the organizer, I have never actually ridden Cranksgiving myself. So I loved getting a glimpse of what it’s like. Check it out. And be sure to subscribe to Best Side Cycling on YouTube.
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tagged: best side cycling, cranksgiving 2023, hanoch yeung, videos
November 20, 2023

Cranksgiving 2023 riders break the donation record by biking 3,699 lbs to food banks

I am still riding high on the happy and caring vibes from Seattle’s 14th Annual Cranksgiving. 168 people biked all over our beautiful city Saturday to buy items the U District, Rainier Valley and Byrd Barr Place Food Banks requested. Pannier by backpack by trailer load, the riders all pitched in to deliver an all-time…
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tagged: byrd barr place, cascade bicycle club, cranksgiving, cranksgiving 2023, maxwell burton, rainier valley food bank, seattle pedaling relief project, u district food bank
November 16, 2023

‘Your neighbor was killed in a car crash here.’ 200+ yellow memorial silhouettes installed around Seattle

If you see a yellow silhouette attached to a pole or sign around town, it’s there because a person was killed in a traffic collision near that spot in the nearly nine years since Seattle first approved it’s Vision Zero goal in 2015. The sheer number of these yellow memorials, numbering over 200, provides a…
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tagged: eric mackres, gordon padelford, sdot, seattle neighborhood greenways, vision zero, world day of remembrance, world day of remembrance 2023
November 14, 2023

Watch: Talking about Cranksgiving on Q13

Paul Tolmé from Cascade and I were on Q13’s Studio 13 Live show this morning. I just love talking about Cranksgiving. It such a positive day, and all you make it that way one bike bag full of food at a time. Cranksgiving is Saturday, and all the details are coming together nicely. For the…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, cranksgiving 2023, q13
November 10, 2023

Tuesday: Cascade is screening The Street Project

Cascade Bicycle Club is hosting a screening of The Street Project 6 p.m. Tuesday (Nov. 14) at their office in Magnuson Park. The 50-minute documentary “is an inspiring story about the global, citizen-led fight to make our streets safer,” according to the trailer: There will be a Q&A with Cascade advocacy staff after the film.
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, events, the street project