Tag: Beacon BIKES

March 24, 2016

Tonight: Help Beacon Hill Safe Streets improve area near the light rail station

Beacon Hill is a growing walkable and bikeable community, but there’s one big safe streets challenge: Beacon Ave. (OK, fine, there are a couple more, too.) Beacon Ave cuts a diagonal across the neighborhood grid, creating many awkward or extra-long crossings. And unfortunately, people keep getting seriously injured or killed. Most recently, a 58-year-old woman…
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tagged: beacon ave, Beacon BIKES, beacon hill, beacon hill safe streets, s forest street, s mcclellan street
December 26, 2013

A bike tour of the now-open Beacon Hill Neighborhood Greenway

Two years in the making, the Seattle Department of Transportation completed the Beacon Hill Neighborhood Greenway this month and officially opened the route for business and bicycling. Proposed by the neighborhood group Beacon BIKES (“Better Infrastructure Keeping Everyone Safer”), the new greenway allows people of all ages and abilities to travel through Beacon Hill by…
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tagged: Beacon BIKES, beacon hill, neighborhood greenways, ryann child
March 26, 2013

With greenway work (slowly) coming together, Beacon BIKES kicks off spring action

As the city works to very slowly piece together the elements of Beacon Hill’s first neighborhood greenway stretching from the I-90 Trail to Georgetown, Beacon BIKES is holding it’s first meeting of the year to talk about waling and biking initiatives on Beacon Hill. So if you live on Beacon Hill and are not yet…
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tagged: Beacon BIKES, beacon hill
January 31, 2013

Bike Master Plan: NE and SE Seattle

This is the fifth post in a series analyzing Seattle’s draft Bicycle Master Plan update. The deadline to comment on the draft map is today (January 31). This post will focus on the Northeast and Southeast neighborhoods. Northeast Seattle Northeast Seattle, which for the sake of this post is anything east of Aurora and north of…
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tagged: 2012 bicycle master plan update, Beacon BIKES, beacon hill, northeast seattle, rainier valley, rainier valley greenways, south seattle, wallingford
September 13, 2012

Bike Rack News: Beacon Hill grocery gets corral + Sportworks profiled + Biz owner still waiting

There’s lots of bike parking news floating around Seattle this week. Here’s a look at some of the happenings around town: Beacon Hill Red Apple creates bike corral in prime parking spot I first heard of Beacon BIKES’ mission to get bike parking at the Red Apple about two years ago. After lots of urging…
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tagged: Beacon BIKES, beacon hill, bike parking, dylan ahearn, el portal, red apple, ryan harrison, sportworks
July 11, 2012

Lots o’ bike action at Saturday’s Jefferson Park Jubilee + Bike stereos needed

Beacon Hill is throwing a huge bash to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Jefferson Park Saturday. And you know what? The park just happens to be in the center of the planned neighborhood greenway, so of course there’s going to be a bunch of bike stuff! There will be a group ride starting at 2:30…
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tagged: Beacon BIKES, beacon hill, events, jefferson park, jefferson park jubilee