Tag: covid-19

March 18, 2022

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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tagged: bike works, cascade bicycle club, covid-19, events, everyday rides
June 30, 2021

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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tagged: community transit, covid-19, king county metro, kitsap transit, pierce transit, sound transit, washington state ferries
August 17, 2020

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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tagged: advocacy leadership institute, covid-19, elise hirschi, max kauffman, seattle bike repair mutual aid
July 27, 2020

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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tagged: covid-19, jenny durkan, open streets
July 15, 2020

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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tagged: covid-19, maxwell burton, seattle pedaling relief project
May 26, 2020

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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tagged: advocacy leadership institute, bike match, cascade bicycle club, covid-19, maggie harger