Year: 2013

September 24, 2013

Berger: 20 bike shops on 2nd Ave and plans for bike paths all over the city? Welcome to 1900 Seattle

Crosscut’s Knute Berger has started a series about urbanism in Seattle with a piece exploring the first bicycle boom in the city. Around the turn of the 20th century, bicycling was so popular that an estimated 10,000 of the city’s 80,000 residents rode bikes. This popularity manifested as a powerful political force lobbying the city…
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tagged: crosscut, history, knute berger, queen city cycling club
September 23, 2013

Times: Seattle joins ‘select group’ of US cities where fewer than 50% of residents drive alone to work

Seattle is one of only five large US cities where fewer than half of residents drive alone to get to work. Gene Balk at the Seattle Times followed up on our Census reporting to note that by crossing this 50 percent threshold, Seattle joins a “select group” of car-lite American cities. Among the 50 most…
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tagged: census, gene balk, seattle times
September 20, 2013

Photos from Park(ing) Day 2013

If you didn’t get the chance to check out Park(ing) Day this year, you gotta put it on your calendar for next year. It’s a great day to “get sick” and have to take off a day of work… I joined a crew from Seattle Neighborhood Greenways and went on a fantastic bike tour of…
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September 20, 2013

Cascade: Let’s build schools for biking and walking

Schools all across Seattle are experiencing a revolution. After decades trapped in the school drop-off conundrum (Cars dropping kids at school makes it more dangerous to walk of bike to school, so more parents drive their kids. Repeat.), Seattle students and parents are finally taking action to reverse this trend. And after years of work,…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, safe routes to school, seattle public schools
September 19, 2013

City’s first parklet is instant hit, Park(ing) Day to showcase more uses for car parking spaces

Parking is Seattle’s most boring powder keg. It’s fairly difficult for the average person to stay awake during a discussion about issues like parking minimums for developments and market-rate metered parking spaces (though Sightline does a heroic job of making it interesting). Yet if a project arises where a handful of car parking spaces are…
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tagged: capitol hill, capitol hill seattle, cascade bicycle club, montana bar, park(ing) day 2013, parklets
September 19, 2013

Census data confirms steady climb in Seattle bike commuting, driving alone now below 50%

Bike commuting is at an all-time high in Seattle and continues to climb, according to Census survey data. Perhaps a bigger symbolic moment has been reached, however: Driving alone to work is now below 50 percent in the city of Seattle, demonstrating a sea change in the way people in our city choose to get…
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tagged: american communities survey 2012, census, commuting