Bike Happy: Long live the ‘Palouse to Cascades State Park Trail’

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June 1, 2018

EDITOR’S NOTE: Thanks again to Brock Howell of Bike Happy for putting together this comprehensive weekly newsletter.

TOP THINGS TO KNOW & DO

Yesterday was the last day of Bike Month.
They’ve finally done it: the John Wayne Trail is dead. Long live the “Palouse to Cascades State Park Trail.”
Pierce County mayors are headed to Copenhagen to learn how to build bike-friendly communities.

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SOCIAL, LIFESTYLE, & ADVENTURE

UPCOMING ACTIVITIES

Friday, June 1
- 6-9pm, Spacecraft Collective’s Paris Gore Collection bike clothing, with photo exhibit, bikes, film, and beverages.
Saturday, June 2
- 6am-5pm, Cascade’s Flying Wheels Ride
- 10am-2pm, Day with Trek Travel at Tukwila Trek
- 11am-1pm, PhinneyWood Pride Rainbow Hop – Bike Decorating at G&O
- 11am-2pm, Shoreline Bike Drive for Bike Works at the Recology Store
- 11am-2pm, Performance Bike’s Kickoff Ride for the Tour de Cure Month
- Noon, Metier Brewing opens
- 3-5pm, Bikecamping Basics with Familybike Seattle
Monday, June 3
- 10am-1pm, Tacoma Velofemmes’ Skip Your Spin Class Ride
Wednesday, June 6
- 6-7:30pm, Seattle Stolen Bikes: Beer & Conversation Meetup
- 6:30-8:15pm, Wednesday Defiance Ride
Thursday, June 7
- 7pm, Point 83 Ride
- Crucible Brewing’s Dollar Off Night for Riding Two Wheels

ARTICLES & POSTS

Compass Cycles and Swift Industries are teaming up for a Swift Campout photo contest, with the winner getting a $200 gift certificate. Jan Heine’s Blog.
A “Womxn’s Bike Month Happy Hour,” hosted by Cascade, SNG, & The Urbanist, is tonight. SBB.
Metier is opening a bike+brewery location in Woodinville on Saturday. Metier.
Ballard-based Rad Power Bikes is opening a showroom in Vancouver BC. BikeBiz, Bicycle Retailer, PSBJ.
Rants to homeowners that complain about trail users using adjacent trails, and to people riding strewn bikeshare bikes without helmets. Seattle Times.
Someone wrote a bicycle etiquette haiku letter that would make John Forrester proud. Seattle Times.
S.J. Brooks was a leader for inclusivity within the bicycle community. Seattle Times, Bicycle Retailer.

POLICY & INFRASTRUCTURE

ACTION

UPCOMING EVENTS

Saturday, June 2
- Noon-1pm, Jackson Hub Walking Audit
Monday, June 4
- 5-9pm, Lid I-5 Collab #2
Tuesday, June 5
- 6:30-8pm, West Seattle Bike Connections meeting
- 6-8pm, SBAB meeting
Thursday, June 7
- 12:30-1:30pm, Jackson Hub Walking Audit

NEWS

Seattle
- Mayor Durkan seeks a new SDOT Director, and is taking public input in what qualities to look for. MyNW, SDOT.
  - The next director needs to be bold and creative on how to deliver the City’s bus and bike commitments under the Move Seattle Levy, says the Seattle Bike Blog.
- New apartment building planned for along future Burke-Gilman Trail in Ballard. MyBallard.
- Construction is beginning on the $50 million Lander Street Overpass Bridge to improve freight mobility from the port in SoDo. The bridge includes a wide sidewalk to accommodate people biking. PSBJ, KING5, Seattle Times.
- SDOT begins construction of the West Seattle Neighborhood Greenway this summer. WSB.
- At a panel discussion about Vision Zero in San Francisco, SDOT’s Darby Wilson discussed the agency’s data-driven effort to reduce traffic fatalities. SF Streetsblog.
Bus Rapid Transit
- Metro & SDOT are planning a new RapidRide H line from Downtown Seattle through Delridge and White Center to Burien, improving bus times by 13% and increase ridership by a third. Metro is still taking public input on the project and could use comments on how to integrate Seattle’s BMP-prioritized bike infrastructure for the route. Urbanist.
- Sound Transit is planning a new BRT line from Burien to Shoreline’s future 145th Street Light Rail Station, and has a public meeting in Lake Forest Park for the project. Again, it’d be good to provide public input in how to integrate bike routes to the bus stops, and to encourage an extension to Aurora Ave – SR99. STB.
Kitsap
- The Washington Recreation & Park Association honored the Bainbridge Parks District’s Youth Mountain Biking Initiative for outstanding innovative programming. Bainbridge Review.
Pierce County
- Local mayors and leaders from Tacoma to Puyallup are headed to Copenhagen for a study trip in how to build bike-friendly communities. KOMO.
Statewide & More
- State renames the John Wayne Trail aka Iron Horse Trail as the “Palouse to Cascades State Park Trail.” Seattle Times, Ellensburg Daily Record.
- A UW PhD candidate discusses her research into the environmental health effects of breathing in toxic chemicals while bicycling. EHN.

SPORT

UPCOMING EVENTS

Friday, June 1
- 7-10pm, JBMV Kickoff of Friday Night Racing (Redmond)
Saturday, June 2
- 10am-5pm, The Gifford Gravel 50 (Yacolt)
- 1:30pm, SeaTac BMX
Tuesday, June 5
- 6-8pm, SeaTac BMX
- 7pm, NW Tri & Bike Pacific Raceways Road Race Series (Kent)
Wednesday, June 6
- 5:30-8pm, NW MTB: Wednesday Night Worlds (SeaTac)
Thursday, June 7
- 5-7pm, Seward Park Crit Series (Seattle)

ARTICLE

Chris Froome won the Giro d’Italia, just the third person to have won the Tour de France, Vuelta a España, and Giro in succession (“The Grand Tour Treble”). Froome faces doping allegations from the Vuelta. Bicycling, Guardian.