Tag: Beacon BIKES

May 5, 2011

Neighborhood-Powered Streets Part 4: A call for a greenway group in your neighborhood

This story is part of a series about Seattle’s young neighborhood greenway movement. As the series wraps up, it’s your turn to get your neighborhood organized. “I know that other neighborhoods are going to step up and say, ‘Hey, we want those too,’” said Councilmember Sally Bagshaw. So far, Children’s Hospital is moving forward with…
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tagged: ballard, Beacon BIKES, dylan ahearn, neighborhood bike groups, neighborhood greenways, Neighborhood-Powered Streets, ravenna, sand point, sbab, seattle children’s, u district, west seattle
May 3, 2011

Neighborhood-Powered Streets Part 2: Beacon Hill and Wallingford groups lead the way

This story is part of a series about Seattle’s young neighborhood greenway movement. In part two, we look at two neighborhood groups that are paving the way for other neighborhoods to get organized and start planning safe streets. Beacon (Hill) BIKES “No one can come up with a better bike route than the people who…
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tagged: Beacon BIKES, bike boulevards, department of neighborhoods, dylan ahearn, events, lewis park, n 44th st, neighborhood greenways, neighborhood matching fund, Neighborhood-Powered Streets, people-powered park parade, spokespeople, wallingford
February 2, 2011

Valentine’s Day – Love your bike with Beacon BIKES

Don’t have a date for Valentine’s Day? Refuse to participate in a Hallmark-fabricated holiday based around unsustainably-grown flowers and poorly-written greeting cards? Well, Beacon BIKES is holding a VD event featuring Willie Weir. From Beacon BIKES:
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tagged: Beacon BIKES, beacon hill, valentine’s day
November 19, 2010

Beacon BIKES to hold neighborhood transportation summit Saturday

Beacon BIKES is on a mission to encourage new safe routes for all people moving around on Beacon Hill. They have hired a consultant and the groups hopes the work will influence next year’s revision of the city’s bicycle master plan. Join them Saturday morning for a chance to talk Beacon Hill bike routes and…
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tagged: Beacon BIKES, beacon hill
September 7, 2010

Beacon BIKES! picks consultant

Beacon BIKES!, a group pushing for bike infrastructure within neighborhoods, has chosen a consultant for their “Family Bike and Pedestrian Circulation Plan.” The citizen group is organizing in part to influence next year’s neighborhood and bicycle master plan updates. Group representative David Ahearn told Publicola he thinks the bicycle master plan is a little too…
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tagged: Beacon BIKES, beacon hill
September 1, 2010

A bike boulevard for Beacon Hill

Dylan from Beacon BIKES, a recently-formed group focused on advocating for more bike infrastructure within neighborhoods, created an interesting walk-through of a potential bike boulevard route through Beacon Hill. Move the map behind the video player to see the route and where each video segment was shot.
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tagged: Beacon BIKES, beacon hill, bike boulevards