Year: 2013

March 26, 2013

With greenway work (slowly) coming together, Beacon BIKES kicks off spring action

As the city works to very slowly piece together the elements of Beacon Hill’s first neighborhood greenway stretching from the I-90 Trail to Georgetown, Beacon BIKES is holding it’s first meeting of the year to talk about waling and biking initiatives on Beacon Hill. So if you live on Beacon Hill and are not yet…
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tagged: Beacon BIKES, beacon hill
March 25, 2013

Loper: Helping Students Bike to Aki Kurose Middle School

Having been involved in bike-to-school programs in North Seattle, I’m keenly aware of the challenges of promoting and supporting kids in riding their bikes to school. Even in a part of Seattle with involved parents and a high percentage of adult bike commuters, starting and growing a bike to school program can be daunting. Aki…
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tagged: aki kurose, bike works, clint loper, Laura Ruchinskas, sdot
March 22, 2013

Police: Road raging pregnant woman attacks bike messenger with stun gun

It’s Friday, the sun is out, and things are getting sloppy out on Seattle’s streets. Seattle Police report that a pregnant woman got out of the passenger seat of a car at 5th and Pike, pulled a stun gun from her bra and hit a bike messenger with it two times out of what appears…
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March 22, 2013

University Bridge will be CLOSED Saturday – UPDATE: Now open

UPDATE: Work wrapped up early Saturday, so the bridge will be open Sunday. Yay! Well, this isn’t the most welcome news, especially since Sunday could crack 60 degrees, but the University Bridge will be closed from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday to make repairs. Yes, this includes people on foot and bike.…
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tagged: construction, sdot, university bridge
March 22, 2013

Graphing trends in Fremont bike trips by the hour and in the rain – UPDATED

It’s a kick to watch the Fremont Bridge Bike Counter tick up one notch as you pedal past it on your way across the Ship Canal. But the counter is also a source of never-before-seen real-time bicycle travel data in Seattle. A gift of Cascade Bicycle Club and the Mark & Susan Torrance Foundation, the…
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tagged: bike counter, fremont, sdot
March 21, 2013

A family e-bike with an audio system? Help UW entrepreneurs by taking survey

Remember LionTail Cycles, that inventive startup focused on custom electric-assist cargo and family bikes? Well, they’ve been hard at work and, along with a team of UW engineering and business students including wheelha.us‘s Julie Medero, have come up with a bicycle power system that does much more than simply flatten hills: It also powers bright…
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tagged: henry kellogg, julie medero, liontail, wheelha