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From our Bike Events Calendar
Jan25Sat10:00 am Stinky Spoke Mountain Bike Poker... @ Willows Run Golf Complex (start and finish location)Stinky Spoke Mountain Bike Poker... @ Willows Run Golf Complex (start and finish location)Jan 25 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
It might be gloomy outside on what is traditionally the “stinkiest” weather day of the year, but we make the Stinky Spoke Mountain Bike Poker Ride for Charity so much fun, several hundred riders will be joining us in January … Continue readingJan26Sun10:00 am Bike Works Volunteer Repair Party @ Bike Works ClassroomsBike Works Volunteer Repair Party @ Bike Works ClassroomsJan 26 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pmDetails: Volunteer Repair Parties (VRP) are drop-in, weekly bike repair parties for adults (age 18 and up). You do not need to be a skilled bike mechanic to help out. This is how most volunteers with Bike Works get their … Continue reading11:00 am Bike Works Warehouse Sale @ Bike Works WarehouseBike Works Warehouse Sale @ Bike Works WarehouseJan 26 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Volunteers are always welcome. Two shifts available (12 people for each shift): 10 AM-1:30 PM & 1:30-4:30 PM. Morning shift get first pick! Contact steveg@bikeworks.org It’s that time when bicycle enthusiasts and cycle-less people alike come together to dig through … Continue readingJan28Tue5:00 pm SDOT Open House: Roosevelt Rapid...SDOT Open House: Roosevelt Rapid...Jan 28 @ 5:00 pm – 9:00 pmShow up in person or comment online on SDOT’s plans for the Roosevelt Rapid Ride J, including SLU, Eastlake, and Ravenna.The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) and Federal Transit Administration (FTA) released the RapidRide Roosevelt Environmental Assessment (EA) on January 8, 2020 … Continue reading6:30 pm Queen Anne Greenways monthly mee...Queen Anne Greenways monthly mee...Jan 28 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pmQACC Room #1 ALWAYS CHECK THE FACEBOOK PAGE (https://www.facebook.com/QueenAnneGreenways) FOR POSSIBLE CHANGES FacebookTwitterRedditPocketEmail
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Banning turns-on-red is an exciting first step to taking back our crosswalks
We’ve all been there. You get the walk signal and step off the curb. But the person driving keeps inching towards you. You try to make eye contact, but they are looking left for a break in traffic, still inching … Continue reading
KUOW and SDOT will host impressive transportation speaker series
Some of the most influential names in recent American urban transportation history will be headed to Seattle in the next couple months. KUOW and the City of Seattle announced a series called “Where Are We Going? Seattle’s Transportation Future.” Featured … Continue reading
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Listen: KUOW on Rainier Ave’s speeding problem + Meeting tonight
Rainier Ave has a serious speeding problem. But, of course, that speeding problem is actually a symptom caused by the street’s dangerous, highway-style design problem. Four lanes of traffic splitting through bustling neighborhood centers and business districts is inherently dangerous. … Continue reading
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Tagged bike works, columbia city, kuow, meetings, phyllis porter, rainier ave, rainier valley, rainier valley greenways, sdot
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I talk 2nd Avenue with KUOW
This morning, I had the opportunity to sit down with KUOW’s Ross Reynolds and producer Hannah Burn to chat about 2nd Avenue downtown and the city’s plans to build a protected bike lane there by September. Burn actually took an … Continue reading
KUOW: Family bikes and better bike routes key to getting more Seattleites to bike
KUOW has a wonderful radio story asking a question at the core of the recently-approved Bike Master Plan: How can Seattle get more people biking? The first answer is pretty straightforward: More connected and complete bike routes that are comfortable … Continue reading
KUOW talks Bike Master Plan
KUOW’s The Conversation discussed the Bicycle Master Plan update Thursday afternoon. The program is archived online here if you want to give it a listen. I was among those interviewed. Do I really say “ya know” and “um” that often? … Continue reading
Even more awesome stolen bike recovery stories
I could get used to news weeks like this one. Story after story of recovered stolen bikes have been pouring in, including this tale from Robin who recovered two stolen bikes in one month: 2am Monday morning July 22nd my … Continue reading
KUOW discusses the importance of more inviting bike infrastructure
KUOW’s Weekday today discussed the city’s changing focus on more inviting bicycle infrastructure, such as cycle tracks and neighborhood greenways. The segment was excellent (listen online here), and it demonstrated even further how the conversation about biking in Seattle is … Continue reading
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Tagged blake trask, kuow, michael ennis, sdot, steve scher, washington policy center
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Bicycling won’t make you an ‘elite snob,’ so where did this image problem come from?
KUOW’s The Conversation hosted a program about a month ago talking about the unfortunately-titled Salon article “Are urban bicyclists just elite snobs?” Headline aside, author Will Doig makes some good points, saying that while people who bike are not likely … Continue reading
KUOW feature looks at cycling in the city and the call for safe streets
KUOW’s Sara Lerner rode along with the Safe Streets Social in September and put together a feature in the lead-up to yesterday’s Road Safety Summit (more on that soon). Give it a listen.
KUOW takes on ‘road diets’
KUOW Weekday took on road diets this morning (listen here). Eric Widstrand from SDOT was on to defend the road diet projects, focusing mostly on Nickerson, from the fears of residents and so-called business representatives. The same old arguments came … Continue reading