Tag: jeff aken

November 23, 2015

Westlake lawsuit is over, bikeway set to open in the summer

The Westlake bikeway lawsuit is over, and construction will begin soon on a two-way protected bike lane from the Fremont Bridge to Lake Union Park. If all goes according to schedule, the bikeway will open in the summer. Mayor Ed Murray has once again brokered a deal to keep the project moving forward and out…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, ed murray, gordy ruh, jeff aken, nautical landing, scott kubly, westlake, westlake lawsuit
August 24, 2015

WA Bikes and Cascade Bicycle Club considering merger

Washington Bikes may dissolve its current organization and join forces with a restructured Cascade Bicycle Club by the end of the year. Under the initial plan for combining organizations, “relevant” WA Bikes staff would join the newly reworked organization and WA Bikes members would become Cascade Bicycle Club members (as many already are). Cascade Bicycle…
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tagged: barb chamberlain, blake trask, cascade bicycle club, elizabeth kiker, jeff aken, washington bikes
July 13, 2015

Cascade looking for a new Advocacy Director. Again.

Cascade Bicycle Club is searching for a new Advocacy Director as Jeff Aken steps back into a regional planning role at the organization. The next person to take the job will be the fifth to hold that position in as many years. Aken moved into the spot last August and will remain in the role…
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tagged: Advocacy Director, cascade bicycle club, jeff aken
September 30, 2014

Cohen: 2nd Ave protected bike lanes ‘just the beginning’

You don’t have to bike for very long in Seattle before you figure out the most dangerous kind of street: “Downhill streets with on-street parking and turning movements at intersections: Those are problems that Second Ave had,” Cascade Bicycle Club’s Advocacy Director Jeff Aken explained recently to Josh Cohen at Crosscut. “Cyclists get moving pretty…
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tagged: crosscut, jeff aken, josh cohen, protected bike lanes
August 19, 2014

Aken picked as Cascade’s new Advocacy Director, more staff changes coming

Jeff Aken has been promoted from his job as Principal Planner at Cascade Bicycle Club to fill the Advocacy Director position vacated recently by Thomas Goldstein. Aken said his advocacy style is all about collaboration, and his goal is to focus on “all-ages and abilities bike infrastructure and increasing funding, obviously, to get those things…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, elizabeth kiker, emily kathrein, jeff aken