Tag: brock howell
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Howell: Vaccinate your bike
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Brock Howell of Bicycle Security Advisors. The group is launching a campaign to fight bike theft by getting more people to register their bikes online with Bike Index. Bike theft is a major problem in Seattle — and I didn’t have to write this sentence for you to know…
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Bike Happy: Introducing the weekly newsletter to Seattle Bike Blog
EDITOR’S NOTE: The weekly Bike Happy newsletter is a huge dump of local bike events and advocacy news curated by Founder Brock Howell. Brock reached out and suggested the newsletter could be a great addition to Seattle Bike Blog. I agree! You can sign up to receive the newsletter on the Bike Happy website. Note…
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Scenes from our move by bike
A couple weeks ago, my spouse Kelli and I moved from the Central District to the Wallingford/U District area. And with the help of nearly 20 amazing friends — old and new — we did it by bike. I have moved big items before, like dressers and mattresses for friends or random office stuff for…
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Panel of experts will discuss solutions to bike theft
Bike theft continues to rise steeply in Seattle. And that not only costs people money, but many people won’t replace their stolen wheels. At a time when our increasingly congested city needs more people to get around by bike, theft is a growing impediment. Brock Howell’ Bicycle Security Advocates group has put together a presentation for…
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Announcing FREE BIKE: A people’s festival pouring into the streets early July
Hop on a bike, and your city opens in front of you. No stop-and-go crawl down the highway, no watching your hard-earned money tick away a dollar-per-second at the gas pump, no stressing about the time left on your paid parking sticker. A bike is nearly free to ride, a bike lane frees you from…
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Howell: As Seattle adds jobs, how are the new workers getting there?
Editor’s Note: Every year, we write about newly-released Census data on commute modes in Seattle and communities across the country. In this guest post, Brock Howell dives even deeper, analyzing just Seattle’s new commutes. What he finds has lessons for what the city is doing right and what we need to change in order to…
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