Tag: car free days
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Huffington Post spotlights Seattle’s bike to school movement, research
The Huffington Post has a great profile of some of Seattle’s bike to school efforts and research by Seattle Children’s to learn more about its effects on students. We have written many times about Seattle’s bike to school revolution. It’s one of the coolest things happening in the city in recent years as schools and…
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This is what Seattle’s bike to school revolution looks like (VIDEO)
Hundreds of Bryant Elementary students filled the streets Wednesday for what had to be the biggest bike to school ride in Seattle history. Seattle School District Superintendent José Banda rode with students and parents from Top Pot Doughnuts to Bryant. He told the crowd gathered for a rally at the end that the district aims…
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Car Free Days: Buying groceries by bike turns a chore into fun
The good folks at Car Free Days—who have been writing about their adventures hauling their family around Seattle on a bike since 2007—have written a great post about one of my favorite seemingly mundane parts of life on two wheels: Grocery shopping by bike. My first trip to the grocery store by bike was a…
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Learn how to encourage walking & biking to school in your neighborhood at Tuesday meeting in Ballard
Getting dropped off at school in your parent’s car is massively uncool. It’s 2012, and biking and walking to school is back in a big way. Though people have been pushing for more non-motorized school transportation for years, last school year may just have been the year biking to school in Seattle broke into the…
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Fremont bike counter, school bike train plans unveiled at City Hall Bike to Work Day rally
Cascade is pretty sure that Fremont’s bike counter will be the first such counter in the nation when it is unveiled this summer. The 7.5-foot-tall counter by Eco-Totem will tick away counting the number of people biking on either side of the Fremont Bridge, keeping daily and annual tallies updated live for everyone to see.…
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Big neighbohrood greenways meeting in Phinney tonight + Car Free Days jumps on board
Remember, there is a big neighborhood greenways meeting 6:30 tonight at the Phinney Neighborhood Center (6615 Dayton Ave N). SDOT leaders will be there, and it will be great chance to get involved and meet some of the people behind the citizen efforts that have taken off all around the city (and growing all the…
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