- —Advertisement—
- Got a tip? Email: [email protected]
Join the Seattle Bike Blog Supporters
Seattle Bike Blog Supporters receive endless love. And, of course, you will have satisfaction of knowing that you helped power independent bike news in the Seattle area. Please consider being a supporter if you are able, starting at $5 per month:
Bike-Friendly Business Showcase
—Advertisement—-
Latest Stories
- Man killed near Seward Park was Boeing Field deputy director. RIP Mike Colmant
- Person driving on wrong side of the road killed a man biking near Seward Park, police searching for suspect
- Friday: Following death, community holds slow bike ride for safe streets in Georgetown
- Brooklyn Ave reopens today near U District Station, signaling the start of a new era for the neighborhood
- Watch: Talking with Ryan Packer about being Editor for the winter
Seattle by Bike Flickr Pool
Top Posts
- Person driving on wrong side of the road killed a man biking near Seward Park, police searching for suspect
- Man killed near Seward Park was Boeing Field deputy director. RIP Mike Colmant
- Seattle Area Bike Maps
- Brooklyn Ave reopens today near U District Station, signaling the start of a new era for the neighborhood
- Friday: Following death, community holds slow bike ride for safe streets in Georgetown
Seattle Bike Links
- Biking Bis Bicycle touring and more
- Biking in the Rain By Aviva Stephens
- Cascade Bicycle Club Blog
- Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance
- No Spandex Required Blogging about a Jew biking in the City of Seattle
- Northwest In Motion The Northwest’s Active Community
- Seattle Bicycle Laws Know ‘em.
- Seattle Bike Counters Updated every night
- Seattle Neighborhood Greenways Find & join your neighborhood group!
- Walk.Bike.Schools Helathy kids needs healthy trips to school
- Washington Bikes blog
- West Seattle Bike Connections
Other Good Links
- Bus Chick Car-free since ’03
- Capitol Hill Seattle Neighborhood news for Seattle’s Capitol Hill.
- Family Ride Promoting everyday family biking.
- Seattle Transit Blog Name says it all
- The Urbanist Focused on Seattle-area urban policy
- Urban Adonia Anthropological analyses of bike culture.
- Walking In Seattle Bloggin’ about walkin’
Tags
- ballard
- beacon hill
- bellevue
- bicycle alliance of washington
- bike counter
- bike news roundup
- Bike Route Alert
- bike share
- bike thefts
- bike works
- burke-gilman
- burke-gilman trail
- capitol hill
- capitol hill seattle
- cascade bicycle club
- central district
- city council
- construction
- crime
- cycle tracks
- deaths
- downtown
- ed murray
- events
- fremont
- injuries
- jenny durkan
- king county parks
- mike mcginn
- missing link
- neighborhood greenways
- pronto emerald city cycle share
- protected bike lanes
- rainier valley
- sdot
- seattle neighborhood greenways
- seattle times
- sound transit
- spd
- uw
- video
- wallingford
- washington bikes
- west seattle
- wsdot
Tag Archives: cathy tuttle
What could traffic enforcement look like with no or fewer armed police? SNG task force wants to find out
Seattle Neighborhood Greenways has created a “Re-Imagining Traffic Enforcement Task Force” to research best practices and organize with community to develop ways to enforce traffic safety without or with fewer police and to rethink which traffic laws are keeping people … Continue reading
Posted in news
Tagged black lives matter, cathy tuttle, kl shannon, seattle neighborhood greenways
1 Comment
Who’s the best District 4 candidate for biking and safe streets?
District: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 As noted in our previous posts, Seattle Bike Blog is not doing official endorsements this primary. Instead, I’ll be going district-by-district, posting videos from the MASS Coalition’s transportation forums … Continue reading
Posted in news
Tagged 2019 primary, cathy tuttle, city council district 4, emily myers, joshua newman, shaun scott
11 Comments
Party to celebrate outgoing and incoming Seattle Neighborhood Greenways leaders Sunday
Cathy Tuttle founded something very special when she started Seattle Neighborhood Greenways, the volunteer-empowering, community-centered safe streets organization she has led as Executive Director since its beginning in 2011. Tuttle is retiring, and the organization is hiring multiple staffers to … Continue reading
Padelford named next Director of Seattle Neighborhood Greenways, now hiring 2 staffers
With Founder and Executive Director Cathy Tuttle retiring, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways staffer Gordon Padelford is getting ready to take the organization’s helm. He will be the first ED of the organization other than Tuttle, who founded it in 2011 and led … Continue reading
‘Our crumbling streets can be rebuilt later, our humanity cannot’
As advocates for safe streets, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways has spent a lot of its efforts lobbying, campaigning and building support for infrastructure investments. So with lots of local transportation funding at risk if the Trump administration succeeds in its threat … Continue reading
Posted in news
Tagged cathy tuttle, kshama sawant, one america, resist, rich stolz, ronacin, seattle neighborhood greenways
9 Comments
Neighbors for safe streets unite at City Hall for World Day of Remembrance Thursday
Two hundred forty people have been killed in Seattle traffic in the past decade. Ten times that many have been seriously injured. Thursday, in solidarity with similar events across the world, neighbors from all over Seattle will converge on City … Continue reading
Posted in news
Tagged cathy tuttle, seattle neighborhood greenways, world day of remembrance
4 Comments
Tuttle: ‘Our duty is to protect the vulnerable’
With Trump headed to the White House, people and groups working for safe streets cannot simply go on with business as usual. “Business as usual” is an option available only to the privileged. “Business as usual” normalizes life under sexist, … Continue reading
Watch: City Inside/Out takes on Seattle’s slashed bike plans
Seattle Channel’s City Inside/Out produced a quality segment on the city’s recent bike plan cuts and the public protest against them. The episode begins with a five-minute intro report outlining how the cuts came about and what people protesting the … Continue reading
Guest post part II: How Seattle can rescue residents stranded by an incomplete bike network
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second of two guest posts by Seattle Neighborhood Greenways this week. Their map conceptualizing the connectivity potential in the city’s bike planning is brilliant. If you like this vision or are frustrated by the city’s … Continue reading
Seattle Neighborhood Greenways gets Federal award for safe streets work
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) will recognize Seattle Neighborhood Greenways Director Cathy Tuttle with a Lifesavers Public Service Award. Yep, the Feds have noticed the work of this humble grassroots safe streets organization, organizing neighborhood-by-neighborhood to develop bike … Continue reading
Posted in news
Tagged cathy tuttle, lifesavers public service award, nhtsa, seattle neighborhood greenways
23 Comments
Move Seattle saves the transpo budget + Pronto gets oversight + Red light cameras will fund school safety
When Mayor Ed Murray presented his proposed 2016 budget, he had to assume there would be no replacement for Bridging the Gap, and it was pretty devastating. There was an exciting $5 million one-time expenditure for expanding Pronto Cycle Share, … Continue reading
SNG: Imagining a truly bike-friendly Uptown and South Lake Union
EDITOR’S NOTE: The only thing worse than biking in South Lake Union is driving in South Lake Union. But unlike driving, there are some relatively easy and quickly-achievable ways to dramatically improve bike routes to and through our city’s fastest-growing … Continue reading
The first ever Seattle Summer Parkways was fun, but let’s go bigger in Ballard
Seattle held its first ever Summer Parkways last weekend in the Central District. Three miles of residential streets linked several neighborhood parks in a car-light loop, encouraging people to bike, walk, scooter or use any other people-powered method to explore … Continue reading
Toward Zero: Honoring the 150 people killed or badly injured in Seattle traffic since Sher Kung
A crowd gathered on the steps of the Garden of Remembrance downtown Friday listened to 150 bell rings, one for every person seriously injured or killed in Seattle traffic in just one year. They also heard ten names, all people … Continue reading
Support safe streets at Move Seattle public hearing Tuesday
The Move Seattle transportation levy puts a pretty strong emphasis on safety, but there’s one key piece that many safe streets advocates in the city think is far too low: Safe Routes to School. You can tell the City Council … Continue reading
Posted in news
Tagged anne fote, cathy tuttle, city council, move seattle, move seattle levy, safe routes to school
9 Comments
Monday Afternoon Theater: Seattle Channel feature on Move Seattle
Seattle Channel’s City Inside/Out took on the Move Seattle levy recently, and it was a pretty good 30-minute report and debate on the issue. There are legitimate concerns about housing affordability and a bigger transportation levy, but Suzie Burke and … Continue reading
Posted in news
Tagged bob pishue, cathy tuttle, move seattle, scott kubly, seattle channel, suzie burke
3 Comments
Seattle Neighborhood Greenways to host wonky discussion about Dutch bike facilities + Video!
The video above is from a presentation to the Washington Institute of Transportation Engineers earlier this month. In it, University Greenways organizer and thinker Eli Goldberg and Seattle Neighborhood Greenways leader Cathy Tuttle make a strong case for how the … Continue reading
Speak up for Seattle bicycle funding at CTAC III meeting today – UPDATED
The final meeting for The Citizens Transportation Advisory Committee (CTAC) III will meet July 6 (today!), 3:30 p.m. at City Hall the Seattle Municipal Tower (700 5th Ave) Room 1610. This is your chance to voice your support in person … Continue reading
Posted in news
Tagged cathy tuttle, ctac III, neighborhood greenways, paulo nunes-ueno
Comments Off on Speak up for Seattle bicycle funding at CTAC III meeting today – UPDATED
Neighborhood-Powered Streets Part 3: Controversially less controversial
This story is part of a series about Seattle’s young neighborhood greenway movement. In part three, we look into hopes that greenway projects will be less controversial than arterial bike lanes and how that could impact the city’s bicycle infrastructure … Continue reading