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Disaster strikes September 25. Bring your bike.
Disaster preparedness is extremely important. But in good times, practicing for an imaginary disaster just sounds so, I don’t know, boring? Paranoid? Enter the Disaster Relief Trials. The DRT is basically a bike race complicated by a series of challenges that simulate an imaginary disaster, and it’s a lot fun. This year’s DRT, hosted by…
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Get ready for the Big One at the Seattle Disaster Relief Trials
Were you scared shitless by that New Yorker story about the Cascadia Subduction Zone? Want to be ready to help if a big quake takes out the Viaduct and other major transportation systems? Do you think it’s really fun to haul stuff around on a bike? Then you should sign up for the annual Seattle…
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FamilyRide: Disaster Relief Trials registration now open – Space is limited
Did you feel that? Was that the mock rumble of a mock earthquake? You know it was! And with mock earthquakes, come Disaster Relief Trials. Seattle’s first DRT will occur Friday, June 21st at 3pm as part of the Bicycle Urbanism Symposium at the University of Washington. Registration is now open! There are 30 cargo…
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FamilyRide: Save the date for disaster
What would happen if a major earthquake hit the Seattle Fault, causing roads to collapse and public transit to shut down? Portland explored how bicycles could help in just such a scenario during last year’s Disaster Relief Trials and more recently in the real world, bikes played a big role in Sandy relief. We in…
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