Tag: commute seattle

May 11, 2023

When I say ‘Bike Everywhere Month,’ I mean EVERYWHERE

The long winter finally ended recently in Seattle, just in time for the year’s first heat wave. The sun is out, so biking energy is endless. Seattleites in sunlight are like sharks: they must keep biking in order to breathe. Bike Everywhere Month is well underway, and the number of events is not slowing down.…
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tagged: bike everywhere month 2023, cascade bicycle club, commute seattle, events
March 17, 2023

Commute Seattle survey: Driving, transit and walking down, biking unchanged, and remote work way up

Commute Seattle dramatically expanded its annual analysis of work trip survey data, finding a wealth of interesting data about how the city’s commute patterns have changed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The biggest change by far is that as of late 2022, remote work was more than seven times higher than before the…
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tagged: commute seattle, commuting
November 4, 2019

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 yet approved the West Coast time zone change. That means sunset today is 4:47 p.m.…
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tagged: bike lights, commute seattle, daylight savings time, light up your ride
May 10, 2019

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 then scan a QR code at the register. If you visit four during the month,…
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tagged: bike month 2019, bikes and bakeries, commute seattle, sdot
May 14, 2018

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 them buy or borrow a bike. Maybe it means helping them get their old bike…
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tagged: bike month 2018, bikes and bagels 2018, commute seattle, mighty-o donuts, peddler brewing company, tour de donut 2018
May 11, 2017

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 top seven workplaces were all within one block of a trail or protected bike lane.…
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tagged: allen institute, basic bike network, commute seattle, downtown