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From our Bike Events Calendar
Dec10Tueall-day US Cyclocross Nationals @ Fort Steilacoom ParkUS Cyclocross Nationals @ Fort Steilacoom ParkDec 10 – Dec 15 all-day
It’s been 23 years since the last US Cyclocross National Championships have taken place in Washington State and in 2019 the City of Lakewood and Ft. Steilacoom Park welcome national championship racing beginning Tuesday, December 10th through Sunday December 15th. … Continue readingDec15Sun10:00 am Bike Works Volunteer Repair Party @ Bike Works ClassroomsBike Works Volunteer Repair Party @ Bike Works ClassroomsDec 15 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pmDetails: Volunteer Repair Parties (VRP) are drop-in, weekly bike repair parties for adults (age 18 and up). You do not need to be a skilled bike mechanic to help out. This is how most volunteers with Bike Works get their … Continue reading11:00 am Dongho’s Favorite Things of 2019Dongho’s Favorite Things of 2019Dec 15 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pmA walking tour of notable projects completed in 2019 with the City’s chief traffic engineer Dongho Chang. Starting at the Starbucks at 2011 7th Ave R2, Seattle and covering improvements in the Denny Triangle, South Lake Union, and Uptown neighborhoods. … Continue reading
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Census survey: Biking, walking and transit up as commute data corrects itself + Driving alone down to 44.5%
Last year, you likely saw a story (or many) saying that biking was way down in Seattle. That was due to the annual release of the Census Bureau’s annual American Communities Survey data, which can vary quite a bit year-to-year. … Continue reading
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Seattle Neighborhood Greenways: Disappointing bike commute data is ‘neither surprising nor inevitable’
Editor’s Note: Seattle Bike Blog reported yesterday on newly-released 2017 American Communities Survey data that estimates that the number of people biking to work is declining in Seattle. In response, the folks at Seattle Neighborhood Greenways wrote this guest post looking … Continue reading
Latest Census survey shows decline in Seattle bike commuting, especially by women
The latest Census survey does not look great for bike commuting, at least as the primary mode that people use to get to work on an everyday basis. The data is especially harsh for women biking to work, a count … Continue reading
Census: Driving alone to work in Seattle hits new low, many more women biking to work
The number of women biking to work spiked in 2015, according to an annual survey by the Census Bureau (**see note at bottom about this data set). While some of the spike is likely statistical noise, looking at the number … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
Seattle’s bike-to-work rate faces challengers from big cities in all corners of the US
The 2014 Census data on work commute modes is out, and it shows that biking to work in Seattle remains somewhere between 3.1 and 4.3 percent. The survey (** see disclaimer about the survey below) has returned biking numbers within … Continue reading
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DC, New Orleans blow past Seattle in latest Census bike commute data
Cities from the East Coast, the West Coast, the Midwest and even the Deep South all passed Seattle in bike commuting in 2013, according to Census survey data just released. Seattle fell all the way from number three to number … Continue reading
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Seattle tops the West Coast in walking and biking to work
Census data divers at the University of Oklahoma have crunched the data and determined that a higher percentage of Seattle’s workforce walks or bikes to work than any other major West Coast city in the nation. An impressive 14 percent … Continue reading
Not just Seattle: King County is also driving less + A look at biking rates around Puget Sound
Get ready for a little data overload. I’ve been swimming through Census data ever since the 2012 American Communities Survey data came out and showed that biking, walking and transit use in Seattle is way up. But what about the … Continue reading
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Times: Seattle joins ‘select group’ of US cities where fewer than 50% of residents drive alone to work
Seattle is one of only five large US cities where fewer than half of residents drive alone to get to work. Gene Balk at the Seattle Times followed up on our Census reporting to note that by crossing this 50 … Continue reading
Census data confirms steady climb in Seattle bike commuting, driving alone now below 50%
Bike commuting is at an all-time high in Seattle and continues to climb, according to Census survey data. Perhaps a bigger symbolic moment has been reached, however: Driving alone to work is now below 50 percent in the city of … Continue reading
Bike commute numbers unchanged in 2011 Census survey
Bike commute numbers remained relatively unchanged in 2011 compared to 2010, according to newly released data from the Census Bureau’s annual American Communities Survey. The percentage of commuters choosing to bike came in at 3.5 percent,* one tenth of a … Continue reading
Census: Seattle bike commuting rises 22% in 1 year, city claims #2 spot in US
Seattle rose to the number two spot among major US cities in terms of the number of people commuting to work by bike in 2010. The percentage of people using a bicycle as their primary mode of getting to work … Continue reading