Year: 2013

November 5, 2013

Seattle tops the West Coast in walking and biking to work

Census data divers at the University of Oklahoma have crunched the data and determined that a higher percentage of Seattle’s workforce walks or bikes to work than any other major West Coast city in the nation. An impressive 14 percent of Seattle residents walk or bike to their jobs on an average day, just barely…
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tagged: census, university of oklahoma
November 4, 2013

High-budget 23rd/24th Ave remake is golden opportunity for safe and direct bike lanes

The 23rd Avenue complete streets and repaving project budget has ballooned to $46 million and now includes three phases, stretching from Rainier to Roanoke. This is arguably the most important commuting corridor in Central Seattle east of I-5. It is also the neighborhood’s most dangerous street and one of the most dangerous streets in the…
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tagged: 23rd ave, 24th ave, capitol hill, central district, montlake
November 4, 2013

Bicycle Alliance of Washington changes name to ‘Washington Bikes’

The Bicycle Alliance of Washington continues to shift and grow. Under the fiery leadership of Barb Chamberlain, who has been at the organization’s helm for nearly a year and a half, the statewide advocacy organization has become more visible and focused on expanding to all corners of the state. With a key legislative victory under…
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tagged: barb chamberlain, bicycle alliance of washington, washington bikes
November 1, 2013

Let’s fund Safe Routes to Parks in Seattle’s next levy

Almost every Seattle resident agrees: Parks should be safe and fun. But so should the routes to get there. Like parks, safe streets become places where people gather and play. They become spaces where neighbors can be neighbors as well as safe ways to get from homes to destinations. So why not embrace streets that…
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tagged: 2014 parks levy, brock howell, cascade bicycle club, safe routes to parks
November 1, 2013

Puget Sound Bike Share ‘optimistic’ about sponsorships, supplier troubles

Bike share boosters across the nation are biting their nails this week as Nice Ride, the Minneapolis public bikes organization, is pursuing legal action against Montreal-based PBSC. The problem is complicated, but the short version is that PBSC supplies the hardware and (in some places) software used by most major public bike systems in the…
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tagged: alta bicycle share, holly houser, pbsc, puget sound bike share
October 31, 2013

Happy Halloween from the Family Ride kids!

Quite unintentionally, my kids’ Halloween costumes have mirrored improvements to Seattle bike infrastructure over the last few years: 2010: Old style man-in-a-house sharrow (and mail carrier)
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tagged: costumes, familyride, halloween, madeleine carlson