Year: 2013

September 2, 2013

Ballard’s 58th Street Greenway will open Saturday with Kidical Mass, street pianos and more

Ballard’s first neighborhood greenway is ready to roll on NW 58th Street. Spanning the entire width of Ballard from 6th Avenue NW to the Burke-Gilman Trail, the greenway includes a variety of improvements from safer crossings of busy streets to speed humps for slowing car traffic to stop signs for cross-traffic at intersections with other…
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tagged: ballard, ballard neighborhood greenways, kidical mass, nw 58th st
August 30, 2013

KIRO TV: Man biking in Federal Way seriously injured in collision, person driving arrested

A man in his 30s was seriously injured in Federal Way late Friday morning, KIRO TV reports. He was biking in the 28600 block of Military Rd S when he was struck by a person witnesses described as driving recklessly. The collision occurred shortly before 11 a.m. Police conducted a drug and alcohol evaluation of…
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tagged: federal way, injuries, kiro
August 30, 2013

OMG! Somebody pedaled a Capital Bikeshare all the way to Seattle?!?! (not really)

I received so many messages yesterday from people who saw this Washington DC Capital Bikeshare bike locked up in Seattle. It even led to a completely baffled post on DCist. Did someone really ride a bike share bike 3,000 miles to Seattle? Just imagine the overage charges they’ve racked up! Unfortunately, no, this bike was…
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tagged: alta bicycle share, bay area bike share, capital bikeshare, puget sound bike share, san fransisco
August 30, 2013

Interim Director: Cascade is not moving away from advocacy

Last week, Publicola included this interesting note in a local news roundup: The Cascade Bicycle Club, whose longtime executive director Chuck Ayers announced he was leaving the group back in March, is still looking for a new leader, and six of its 14 board seats are up for reelection, sparking speculation that the group, may…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, joe platzner, publicola
August 29, 2013

Spotted in Albany, Oregon: Car 1 : 0 Dog. Car 1 : 0 Cat. Car ? : ? Kid

RIP Gusty and Jane.
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tagged: albany, oregon
August 29, 2013

Comparing bike commute rates to the mayoral primary results

The Seattle Times released an interactive map this week visualizing Seattle’s mayoral primary election precinct-by-precinct. So I thought, How do the results compare to bike commute rates? As you can see above, there is a correlation between neighborhoods with high bike commute rates (the darkest green sections are nine percent or higher) and votes for…
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tagged: 2013 general election, ed murray, mike mcginn