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Dec4Sun4:00 pm Move Redmond & Complete Street B... @ Mox Boarding HouseMove Redmond & Complete Street B... @ Mox Boarding HouseDec 4 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Lets Give Together Join Move Redmond & Complete Streets Bellevue at our joint Fundraiser at Mox Boarding House on December 4th from 4pm – 6pm to help us raise our goal of $4,000 will help power the advocacy work of … Continue readingDec6Tue6:30 pm West Seattle Bike Connections mo... @ OnlineWest Seattle Bike Connections mo... @ OnlineDec 6 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pmFacebookTwitterRedditPocketEmail7:30 pm NW Greenways Meeting @ Virtual via ZoomNW Greenways Meeting @ Virtual via ZoomDec 6 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pmOur regularly scheduled meeting, happens every other month. Please check NW Greenways Twitter account – https://twitter.com/NWGreenways, our Google Group – https://goo.gl/W9jmzW or our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/NWGreenways/) to confirm the meeting. FacebookTwitterRedditPocketEmailDec7Wed6:00 pm Seattle Bicycle Advisory Board M...Seattle Bicycle Advisory Board M...Dec 7 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pmMonthly agendas can be found at: http://www.seattle.gov/seattle-bicycle-advisory-board/meetings/meeting-agendas The Seattle Bicycle Advisory Board (SBAB) advises the Mayor, City Council, and City Departments and Divisions on projects, policies, and programs that improve and/or affect bicycling conditions in Seattle. Responsibilities SBAB’s responsibilities include: … Continue readingDec8Thu7:15 pm Point83 @ Westlake ParkPoint83 @ Westlake ParkDec 8 @ 7:15 pm
Meet up in the center of the park at 7ish. Leave at 730. Every Thursday from now until forever rain or shine. Bikes, beers, illegal firepits, nachos, bottlerockets, timetraveling, lollygagging, mechanicals, good times.FacebookTwitterRedditPocketEmail
Tag Archives: bike trains
How to organize a walking school bus or bike train to your kid’s school
With very little warning, Seattle Public Schools announced Friday that 142 school bus routes would be cancelled as of today (Monday). So many families in our city had to scramble to find a way to get their kids to school. … Continue reading
New Roosevelt-to-Downtown Bike Train starts service Friday
Seattle’s newest bike train will begin service from the future Roosevelt light rail station, serving Ravenna, the U District, Wallingford, Fremont and Queen Anne en route to South Lake Union and downtown. Started by Nick van den Heuvel, the route … Continue reading
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Want some company biking downtown? Join these welcoming West and SE Seattle rides or start your own
Biking on city streets can be more fun and less intimidating when you are with a group. And riding with a group can be a great way to become familiar with a route and learn some tips before trying it … Continue reading
Seattle Children’s study: School bike trains increase physical activity (of course)
Organizing a bike train to school is an effective way to significantly increase the amount of daily physical activity every child needs to be healthy, a study out of Seattle Children’s found. OK, I know that sounds like a no-brainer. … Continue reading
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KOMO: South Seattle bike train fights obesity, creates community
This KOMO report on school bike train research in Hillman City is pretty much awesome. I cannot wait to see the results of this Seattle Children’s study by Dr. Jason Mendoza and Maya Jacobs. We wrote about the study when … Continue reading
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Children 9-12 years old needed for school bike train research
Attention young Seattle Bike Blog readers (and parents): A study of the health impact of school bike trains needs your help! Common sense says that biking to school is good for the health of Seattle students, but exactly how good … Continue reading
Want to learn how to start a bike train to your local school? Cascade hosting workshop Saturday
Schools, teachers and parents across the Puget Sound region have started organizing bike trains in recent years, one key part of the bike-and-walk-to-school revolution. Essentially, bike trains are like walking school buses, but on wheels. Volunteers (often parents) lead a … Continue reading
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Loper: Group rides – kid style! How bike trains and after school clubs help kids become strong city bikers
One basic principle of elementary age bike to school programs is that each kid generally rides with one of their parents. Especially when the kids are in their first few years of school. As children get a little older and … Continue reading
Yes! Magazine on how to build a bike train to school
Thornton Creek Elementary bike train organizer Maya Jacobs wrote an article for Yes! Magazine giving advice for people who want to organize bike trains to their neighborhood schools. Among her bits of advice: Find a group of interested parents, pick … Continue reading
When bike trains collide, it’s heartwarming
This just in from Laurelhurst Elementary parent Kendall Wills: Just had a heart warming bike experience this a.m. I was biking in to school this morning with my kids and a neighbor girl on the Burke Gilman. We live in … Continue reading
