Tag: seattle children’s
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Seattle Children’s study: School bike trains increase physical activity (of course)
Organizing a bike train to school is an effective way to significantly increase the amount of daily physical activity every child needs to be healthy, a study out of Seattle Children’s found. OK, I know that sounds like a no-brainer. And it is. But it’s cool to see that actual figures. The bike train activity…
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Seattle Children’s leads new WA Bicycle Friendly Businesses
The League of American Bicyclists has announced their newest Bicycle Friendly Business ratings, and Seattle Children’s leads the way in Washington State. And that should come as no surprise to anyone following all the work the hospital has done recently to encourage employees to bike to work. They went way beyond just providing quality bike…
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Seattle Children’s one of few workplaces in nation with on-site bike shop
You’re on your way to work when your bike starts go get harder and harder to pedal. You try to ignore it, as though that might make the problem go away. But of course it doesn’t. You pull over and confirm: You have a flat. Now image this: Instead of fixing the flat right there…
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Huffington Post spotlights Seattle’s bike to school movement, research
The Huffington Post has a great profile of some of Seattle’s bike to school efforts and research by Seattle Children’s to learn more about its effects on students. We have written many times about Seattle’s bike to school revolution. It’s one of the coolest things happening in the city in recent years as schools and…
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Advocate for safe and active streets picked to head city’s transit division
Paulo Nunes-Ueno was Director of Transportation and Sustainability at Seattle Children’s when the institution wanted to expand its northeast Seattle campus. To help mitigate the traffic impact the larger campus would have on the neighborhood, Nunes-Ueno lead a cutting edge effort to help connect the campus to the nearby neighborhood, transit service and the Burke-Gilman…
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How Pronto plans to make bike share work even with Seattle’s helmet law
King County has a very rare all-ages helmet law, which will certainly complicate the launch and daily operations of Pronto Cycle Share in September. But fueled by a grant from Seattle Children’s, they are forging ahead with an ambitious and novel plan to make it work using a streamlined and simple helmet checkout and return…
Arriving in August. Preorder now.
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