Tag: covid-19

May 15, 2020

Cascade staffers are organizing bike deliveries for food banks + How you can help

Cascade Bicycle Club staffers have been organizing to help make deliveries for the U District Food Bank, helping to distribute food to community members. “There are individuals who are immunocompromised or just can’t get out to food bank,” said Cascade Volunteer Coordinator Maimoona Rahim. “We started a couple weeks ago with just staff and board…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, covid-19
May 13, 2020

Bellevue has launched its own car-light ‘Healthy Streets’ program

Seattle has been making headlines nationally for announcing that the city would make its Stay Healthy Streets program permanent, so you may have missed that Bellevue has started its own people-first street program it’s calling simply “Healthy Streets.” The Eastside city rolled out two of these temporary projects last week in the Northeast/Crossroads/Lake Hills area.…
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tagged: bellevue, bellevue healthy streets, covid-19
May 7, 2020

King County will reopen trails Friday

King County Parks will reopen regional trails and many parks tomorrow (Friday), the department’s first significant openings since closing all parks in late March. The county’s network of regional trails had been closed to recreation, though essential workers and people making essential trips were allowed to use them for transportation. Now they will reopen for…
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tagged: covid-19, king county parks
May 5, 2020

Crowdsourced map highlights 130 miles of potential Stay Healthy Streets

Seattle Neighborhood Greenways has been collecting people’s ideas for street improvements the city could make to help more people get outside and get around safely during the outbreak. They received 250 ideas, which they condensed into a map of 130 miles of car-light Stay Healthy Streets and temporary on-street walk/bike paths designed to relieve crowded…
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tagged: clara cantor, covid-19, gordon padelford, kl shannon, seattle neighborhood greenways, stay healthy streets
May 4, 2020

Some trails, closed amid statewide parks shutdown, will reopen for day use Tuesday

Washington State is preparing to ease a few restrictions for the first time since the outbreak began, and reopening day use of many parks and trails are at the top of the list. Starting tomorrow (Tuesday), major statewide trails like the Palouse to Cascades Trail (AKA the Iron Horse Trail AKA John Wayne Pioneer Trail)…
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tagged: covid-19, jay inslee, washington state parks
May 1, 2020

SDOT opens 11 more miles of Stay Healthy Streets, Parks cancels May 10 Bicycle Sunday

There’s good news and bad news for people looking to get outside on some car-free (or car-light) streets in the next week. SDOT has announced 11 more miles of Stay Healthy Streets, bringing the citywide total to 20 miles of 24/7 people-focused streets. But Seattle Parks has cancelled the first Bicycle Sunday of the year…
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tagged: bicycle sunday, covid-19, stay healthy streets