Year: 2013

April 9, 2013

Awesome bike jobs alert: Cascade ‘principal planner’ and Bike Works summer shop worker

Whether you’re an experienced bike facility planner or a bike mechanic, the warming weather brings bike jobs. Here are a couple notices floating around this week. Know of more bike jobs in town? Post details in the comments. Principal Planner at Cascade Bicycle Club Details: Cascade Bicycle Club’s Principal Planner will lead the monitoring of…
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tagged: bike works, cascade bicycle club, jobs
April 9, 2013

Sound Transit’s new bike + bus ad

This is totally us! Right now! Except we don’t have a cat with us. And our biceps are way bigger. Bike+bus=<3 twitter.com/familyride/sta… — familyride (@familyride) April 8, 2013
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tagged: familyride
April 8, 2013

Bike News Roundup: The bike of the future is being developed in Seattle

Here it is. You’ve waited patiently, and now the long-overdue Bike News Roundup has finally arrived. This is at least two weeks coming, so it’s quite long. Go refill your coffee mug and tell your boss you won’t be getting much done for the rest of the day… First up, King 5 takes a look…
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tagged: bike news roundup
April 8, 2013

Loper: Grief, outrage and a clear call for safer neighborhood streets following NE 75th tragedy

Two weeks hardly seems like enough time for reflection. But these last two weeks in NE Seattle deserve a little anyway. By now, most readers will know the basic facts: A fatal collision at 4:10 pm on Monday, March 25 on NE 75th St. took the lives of two grandparents and left a woman and her…
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tagged: clint loper, eckstein middle school, judy and dennis schulte, ne 75th st
April 5, 2013

Now open: NE 65th Street cycle track near Magnuson Park

To use a summer blockbuster analogy, cycle tracks—essentially bike lanes that are protected from general traffic—are the next big thing dropping on Seattle’s streets. NE 65th Street is the trailer, and it was just officially released. SODT reports that the short cycle track connecting the Burke-Gilman Trail to Magnuson Park is now open. The project…
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tagged: cycle tracks, magnuson park, ne 65th, protected bike lanes, sdot
April 5, 2013

Time for final push to pass the Neighborhood Safe Streets Bill

The Neighborhood Safe Streets Bill is now in line for a final vote in the Senate, among the last steps for the popular, bipartisan bill before heading to the governor’s desk. Of course, it’s gotta get there first. The Bicycle Alliance of Washington sent out a call to contact your senators and push them to…
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tagged: bicycle alliance of washington, hb 1045, neighborhood safe streets bill