Tag: covid-19
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Bike events are back! How to find bike happenings around town
After years of cancelled, scaled back and Zoomified bike events thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Seattle bike events calendar is finally starting to fill up with community celebrations, rides and more. Before 2020, you could pretty much design your whole social schedule around bike events (and some of you did!). We are not quite…
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Transit returns to full-capacity this week
Transit is back. Over the next couple days, agencies around the region will relax many of their COVID precautions as the bulk of Washington State’s restrictions end. Like many of you, I’ve still been treating transit as an essential-trips-only service. I didn’t want to take a limited spot from someone who needed it more than…
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Seattle Bike Repair Mutual Aid connects folks with bike fixing skills to those who need to get their rides rolling
Do you need to get your bike rolling again? Do you want to put your bike tools and skills to work helping your community? Then Seattle Bike Repair Mutual Aid is for you. The concept of the project is very simple: Collect info from people who need their bikes repaired and people who want to…
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City will (finally) start accepting street closure permits for businesses
We have known for a while that the coronavirus doesn’t spread as easily outside as inside, yet so many Seattle businesses are obviously based inside storefronts. What if businesses could move more of their operations outside? Cities all over the world have been allowing just that. Streets in major businesses districts have closed to traffic…
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Watch: ‘This is no longer a Disaster Relief Trials, this is disaster relief’
Maxwell Burton and Michael Lang had started organizing the 2020 Disaster Relief Trials, a cargo-hauling bike competition, when the COVID-19 outbreak hit. As soon as schools closed down in the spring, Lang and Burton realized their mission had just changed. The Disaster Relief Trials (“DRT”) is “a trial competition that’s meant to simulate a natural…
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Got more bikes than you really need? Bike Match Seattle will connect you with someone who needs it
It’s a surprisingly simple idea. Find people who need bikes, find people who have bikes they don’t need, and then introduce them to each other. That’s basically how Bike Match Seattle works, a project started by Maggie Harger as a response to the covid-19 outbreak. “New York City is where it first started,” said Harger…
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- Crosscut: Seattle Police are leaders in violent use of bikes during protests
- 32 Congressmembers including Rep. Jayapal urge adding walking and biking safety to vehicle safety ratings
- You should join the Bike Advisory Board (or any of these other boards)
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- Beacon Hill bike lane plan gets more detailed + City finds ways to add nearby parking
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