Tag: real change
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Support for repealing all-ages helmet law grows as Health Board begins debate
The list of organizations backing a proposal to repeal King County’s all-ages bicycle helmet law includes many local bicycling and safe streets groups like Seattle Neighborhood Greenways and Cascade Bicycle Club as well as national organizations like People for Bikes and the League of American Bicyclists. This momentum comes as the King County Board of…
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Watch: Person driving injures a biking Real Change vendor, then SPD mocks and blames the victim
This video, posted by Real Change, is enraging. Using body cam footage, the newspaper and Black Fuji Studios pieced together key moments that reveal what appears to be an extremely biased March 2019 investigation by officers who responded to a call for help. I have not reviewed any extra footage, so I can’t report on…
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What can Seattle’s bike movement do to help end homelessness?
While Mayor Ed Murray was giving a speech on the homelessness emergency in Seattle, five people were shot and two killed at a notorious camping area where Beacon Hill and I-5 meet. Though information is still scarce, the mass shooting of Seattleites is a tragedy and highlights yet another terrible way life without a home…
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Real Change: Puget Sound Bike Share looking into discounts for low-income residents
In other parts of the world, bike share systems are often called “public bikes,” a term that captures the civic mission of the systems. It both captures the idea that the bikes are part of the public transportation system and that the bikes are for everybody. At an estimated cost of $8 per day or…
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Bicycle Paper: ‘Cycling Forward’ empowers homeless youth with bike fixing skills
The Bicycle Paper recently profiled “Cycling Forward,” a YouthCare program downtown that empowers homeless and under-served youth with bike fixing skills and the chance to get wheels of their own. The program provides young people with a stable learning environment and mentorship needed to get a forgotten bike back into shape. From the Bicycle Paper:…
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Cascade focusing on Vulnerable Users Bill
What is the appropriate penalty for killing a person with a car? Through practically any other method, causing a death due to negligence would be cause for a manslaughter charge. But currently, causing a death through negligent driving typically results in a simple traffic ticket. That is not right. Thus, the Vulnerable Users Bill is…
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