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From our Bike Events Calendar
Jan25Sat10:00 am Stinky Spoke Mountain Bike Poker... @ Willows Run Golf Complex (start and finish location)Stinky Spoke Mountain Bike Poker... @ Willows Run Golf Complex (start and finish location)Jan 25 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
It might be gloomy outside on what is traditionally the “stinkiest” weather day of the year, but we make the Stinky Spoke Mountain Bike Poker Ride for Charity so much fun, several hundred riders will be joining us in January … Continue readingJan26Sun10:00 am Bike Works Volunteer Repair Party @ Bike Works ClassroomsBike Works Volunteer Repair Party @ Bike Works ClassroomsJan 26 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pmDetails: Volunteer Repair Parties (VRP) are drop-in, weekly bike repair parties for adults (age 18 and up). You do not need to be a skilled bike mechanic to help out. This is how most volunteers with Bike Works get their … Continue reading11:00 am Bike Works Warehouse Sale @ Bike Works WarehouseBike Works Warehouse Sale @ Bike Works WarehouseJan 26 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Volunteers are always welcome. Two shifts available (12 people for each shift): 10 AM-1:30 PM & 1:30-4:30 PM. Morning shift get first pick! Contact steveg@bikeworks.org It’s that time when bicycle enthusiasts and cycle-less people alike come together to dig through … Continue readingJan28Tue5:00 pm SDOT Open House: Roosevelt Rapid...SDOT Open House: Roosevelt Rapid...Jan 28 @ 5:00 pm – 9:00 pmShow up in person or comment online on SDOT’s plans for the Roosevelt Rapid Ride J, including SLU, Eastlake, and Ravenna.The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) and Federal Transit Administration (FTA) released the RapidRide Roosevelt Environmental Assessment (EA) on January 8, 2020 … Continue reading6:30 pm Queen Anne Greenways monthly mee...Queen Anne Greenways monthly mee...Jan 28 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pmQACC Room #1 ALWAYS CHECK THE FACEBOOK PAGE (https://www.facebook.com/QueenAnneGreenways) FOR POSSIBLE CHANGES FacebookTwitterRedditPocketEmail
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Census survey: Biking, walking and transit up as commute data corrects itself + Driving alone down to 44.5%
Last year, you likely saw a story (or many) saying that biking was way down in Seattle. That was due to the annual release of the Census Bureau’s annual American Communities Survey data, which can vary quite a bit year-to-year. … Continue reading
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Census: Driving alone to work in Seattle hits new low, many more women biking to work
The number of women biking to work spiked in 2015, according to an annual survey by the Census Bureau (**see note at bottom about this data set). While some of the spike is likely statistical noise, looking at the number … Continue reading
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Seattle’s bike-to-work rate faces challengers from big cities in all corners of the US
The 2014 Census data on work commute modes is out, and it shows that biking to work in Seattle remains somewhere between 3.1 and 4.3 percent. The survey (** see disclaimer about the survey below) has returned biking numbers within … Continue reading
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Seattle’s plummeting bike collision rate may have stalled
As more people bike in a city, the total number of bicycle-involved collisions often remains flat. Sometimes it rises a little, and sometimes it falls. But the “safety in numbers” bike safety phenomenon is surprisingly consistent: The more people bike, … Continue reading
Census: Seattle bike commuting rises 22% in 1 year, city claims #2 spot in US
Seattle rose to the number two spot among major US cities in terms of the number of people commuting to work by bike in 2010. The percentage of people using a bicycle as their primary mode of getting to work … Continue reading