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Nov15Fri6:00 pm SDOT Focus Group: Rainier Ave Ef...SDOT Focus Group: Rainier Ave Ef...Nov 15 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pmWe are excited to collaborate with Cut Seattle and NonWhiteWorks to incorporate community experiences and input into our Rainier Avenue S traffic safety and awareness efforts. For the next phase of #RainierTrafficSafety, we’ll partner with various community groups and members on effective messaging. On behalf … Continue reading →Nov17Sun10:00 am Bike Works Volunteer Repair Party @ Bike Works ClassroomsBike Works Volunteer Repair Party @ Bike Works ClassroomsNov 17 @ 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 reading →2:00 pm Broadview Home Zone kick-off eve... @ 127th Street intersection with Dayton Ave N.Broadview Home Zone kick-off eve... @ 127th Street intersection with Dayton Ave N.Nov 17 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pmBroadview Home Zone Kick-Off Event and Ribbon-Cutting! November 17, at 2:00 pm, at the 127th Street intersection with Dayton Ave N. Join your neighbors to celebrate our accomplishments and learn about the current status and how to get involved! The … Continue reading → Bike-Friendly Business Showcase
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Tag Archives: commute seattle
For some reason, we are still adjusting our clocks so that evening commutes are in the dark
Washington, Oregon and California have all passed laws saying that they are ready to switch to permanent Daylight Saving Time, but we still need to meaninglessly and abruptly plunge the evening commute into darkness next week because Congress has not … Continue reading
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City and Commute Seattle want you to bike to bakeries
In case you were looking for an excuse to hit up a bakery, Commute Seattle and SDOT have got you covered. They have a Bikes and Bakeries challenge going all May. All you have to do is bike there and … Continue reading
Party for Bike Month Friday, bike for Mighty-O Donuts Saturday
Happy Bike Week! As Seattle Neighborhood Greenways suggested in a post here Friday, this is a great opportunity to (politely and non-judgmentally) reach out to a friend and offer to help them get on a bike. Maybe that means helping … Continue reading
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Seattle’s top bike commuting workplaces are all within 5 blocks of a protected bike lane or trail
New analysis from Commute Seattle found that the city’s large workplaces (100+ employees) with the highest bike commute rates all are within five blocks of a protected bike lane or trail and offer secure bike parking. Even more telling: The … Continue reading
Only 5% of new downtown Seattle commute trips are made by driving alone, but biking is flat
Downtown Seattle has added 45,000 jobs since 2010. During the same time, only 2,255 new drive-alone trips have been added to downtown streets, according to a new Commute Seattle survey. The other 95 percent of commute trips were absorbed by … Continue reading
Ride your bike, support bike-friendly businesses & donate toys Saturday
Ride your bike. Shop at bike-friendly businesses. Support survivors of domestic violence. Join Commute Seattle and Cascade Bicycle Club Saturday for the Seattle Bike Friendly Business Network‘s first Holiday Bike Friendly Ride. Meet up 2 p.m. at Métier (11th and … Continue reading
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Get a free doughnut and coffee for biking Thursday morning
It’s time for Commute Seattle’s annual Light Up your Ride event. Get a free doughnut, cup of coffee and other likely reflective and blinky swag tomorrow morning (Thursday). All you have to do is ride a bike. Easy! Commute Seattle … Continue reading
Bikes & Bagels is Friday + A look at more Bike Month events ahead
Bike to McGraw Square tomorrow (Friday) morning between 7 and 9 a.m., and you’ll get free coffee, a bagel and probably some swag. Commute Seattle hosts the event every year, though I feel like we got fried chicken one year … Continue reading
2nd Ave bike counter unveiling kicks off Bike Month + Remembering Lance David
There’s now a humble counter ticking away everyone who bikes up or down 2nd Ave through the heart of downtown Seattle. Commute Seattle’s Jessica Szelag unveiled the display this morning, which is a gift to the city on a beautiful … Continue reading
After weeks of tough closures, 2nd Ave bike lane is now permanent + Gets bike counter Monday
After weeks of tough construction closures, the 2nd Ave bike lane — downtown’s sole sliver of low-stress bike lane — has mostly reopened. And with new raised driveways, planter boxes and traffic signals, the pilot project created in 2014 is … Continue reading
Commute Seattle will install bike counter display on 2nd Ave
Downtown Seattle will get its first live-updated bike counter display soon thanks to Commute Seattle. Located on 2nd Ave between Madison and Marion Streets, the counter will tick away daily and annual totals as people bike by. As we’ve seen … Continue reading
69 percent of downtown workers don’t drive alone
The most recent Downtown Seattle Association/Commute Seattle survey (PDF) of downtown commute habits shows that 69 percent of workers do not drive alone to their jobs. Transit is by far the preferred way to get to downtown jobs, though walking, biking … Continue reading
Light Up Your Ride with Commute Seattle Thursday
Daylight Savings Time ends Sunday, eating away an hour of light in the evening. So you gotta get your bike ready for darker commutes if you haven’t already, and Commute Seattle wants to help. This is the second year Commute … Continue reading
Commute Seattle installs public bike work station and pump downtown
Get a flat? Brakes too loose? Need to tighten that rattling fender bolt that drove you absolutely bonkers the whole way to work? The good folks at Commute Seattle have got you covered. In partnership with the Metropolitan Improvement District, … Continue reading
Commute Seattle and city hosting bike light event Thursday
Bike lights are not optional. Aside from being required by law (technically, only front light and rear reflector are required), lights are vital if you are going to be visible to folks driving, biking and walking at night and sun-in-the-eyes … Continue reading
Downtown business leaders will discuss Bike Master Plan today
New York City discovered that businesses located on streets where the city installed protected bike lanes saw increases in retail sales as high as 49 percent (see full report below). So it makes sense that downtown Seattle business leaders are … Continue reading
Friday morning: Get a bagel and coffee for biking downtown
As you may have noticed from their advertisement on this site for the past week, Commute Seattle is hosting their third annual Bikes & Bagels event Friday morning. As a way to encourage and celebrate cycling downtown, they will be … Continue reading
Wednesday: Biking the Wave features evening of bike-powered food, drinks and discussion
From Commute Seattle: More details from the Facebook event listing:
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Only one-third of downtown commuters drive alone to work
Commute Seattle released a report recently showing that driving to work in downtown Seattle continues to fall as more and more people choose to walk, bike, telecommute and take transit. In 2000, half of downtown employees got to work by … Continue reading
Times op-ed: Remember Mike Wang by rethinking road behavior
As the one year anniversary of Mike Wang’s death passes, the courts are working to decide the sentence for the man who pleaded guilty to the hit and run that took his life. Meanwhile, Doug Palm from PATH (where Wang … Continue reading
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