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Watch: Mayor Durkan celebrates downtown bike lanes, says more to come

Posted on February 4, 2020 by Tom Fucoloro

(Video transcript) Mayor Jenny Durkan has completely changed her tune about bike lanes since her first year in office. Well, that’s not entirely accurate because in her first year in office, she said very little about bike lanes at all. … Continue reading →

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The Urbanist: Womxn’s Bike Month Happy Hour is Thursday

Posted on May 29, 2018 by Tom Fucoloro

Took a rad group of ladies out on an e-bike spin! Most of them had never ridden downtown. They were all smiles. #womxnbike #bikemonth #seabikes @limebike @CascadeBicycle @TranspoChoices pic.twitter.com/jC6uHaQikz — kelsey mesher (@kmesh) May 23, 2018 Womxn are leading the … Continue reading →

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Cascade: Support Bellevue’s downtown bike lane plans Thursday

Posted on January 10, 2018 by Tom Fucoloro

As we reported previously, the City of Bellevue plans to build one or more demonstration bike lanes in its downtown core this spring as a pilot project to try out the design and give people a chance to see them … Continue reading →

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City of Sammamish, stop fighting King County over four trail stop signs

Posted on August 22, 2017 by Tom Fucoloro

The City of Sammamish and King County are fighting in court over four proposed stop signs on two very low-traffic streets serving a handful of wealthy lakefront homes, and that fight is further delaying construction on the E Lake Sammamish … Continue reading →

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Your comments worked, WA Ferries won’t charge more for most bike trailers

Posted on July 26, 2017 by Tom Fucoloro

WA State Ferries will not charge extra for most bike trailers, Cascade Bicycle Club reported Wednesday morning. The WA Transportation Commission will instead limit the new rules to people hauling kayaks or canoes on a bike trailer. So people hauling … Continue reading →

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Cascade: WA Ferries proposes huge fare increase for … bicycle trailers?

Posted on July 18, 2017 by Tom Fucoloro

WA State Ferries has proposed a dramatic fare hike for people pulling a bicycle trailer. For the Bainbridge and Bremerton runs, for example, a person biking with a trailer would have to pay $16 during peak season, a 73 percent … Continue reading →

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Cascade: Redmond stations are a chance to go all out on Sound Transit station access

Posted on May 15, 2017 by Tom Fucoloro

Transit works better when people can get to the stations. This might seem like an extremely obvious point, but many of the region’s biggest rail and express bus stations have awful walking and biking access problems. Like truly awful: And … Continue reading →

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Bellevue officially approves funding to start ‘rapid implementation’ bike plan

Posted on February 27, 2017 by Tom Fucoloro

Amid all the other giant issues on the November ballot, it may have been easy to miss the news that the people of Bellevue approved a transportation measure that includes funding to kickstart a renewed effort to get their bike … Continue reading →

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Take a minute right now to support the E Lake Sammamish Trail permit

Posted on January 25, 2017 by Tom Fucoloro

It has taken an enormous amount of advocacy pressure over many, many years to get to this point: The final section of the East Lake Sammamish Trail is finally applying for the permits needed to become reality. But this is … Continue reading →

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