Author: Tom Fucoloro
Amber Weilert to the Cascade lunch: ‘No mom can go through this again’
When I saw Amber Weilert’s name on the speaker’s list for Cascade Bicycle Club’s Bike Everywhere Lunch Monday, I looked around at the large room full of people talking with old friends, networking, and glad-handing with local politicians and thought, A lot of these people don’t yet know who Amber is, and they don’t understand…
Wilburton Station is destined to be a major bike/transit hub of the Eastside
To celebrate Sound Transit’s 2 Line opening over the weekend, my kid and I biked across the 520 Bridge to a station that seems destined to play a special role in connecting biking and transit on Eastside. The newly-opened Wilburton Station is basically part of the EasTrail. The connection for trail users is seamless, easy…
RAMROD will happen in 2024, but in September instead of July
One of the most difficult one-day bike rides anywhere on earth just got a little more difficult. Riders will have two fewer hours of sunlight to complete their 150-mile ride around Mount Rainier this year. But I doubt riders will mind too much because after months of uncertainty, organizers announced this week that the iconic…
Opening May 1: Shoreline Bike Shack brings community-powered repair resources to the Tool Library
A few years ago, Ryan Townsend needed a cheap way to get his bike fixed. His search led him to the NE Seattle Tool Library, which had absorbed the volunteer-run Bike Shack. Not only did he find the tools and advice he needed, he also found a community. “I started volunteering with essentially no experience…
Council passes the Seattle Transportation Plan with few changes
After making very few changes, the City Council passed the Seattle Transportation Plan (“STP”) this week, supplanting the 2014 Bicycle Master Plan and sending it to the city archives. The STP is an ambitious document that attempts to combine all the city’s modal plans and transportation priorities into a single mega plan, resolving as many…
A new Eastside bike map just dropped
It has been a long time since King County stopped maintaining a bike map. Seattle releases their updated map every year, but it ends at the city limits. But folks biking on the Eastside are mostly left to cobble together route info from wherever they can find it. That’s why I have been very excited…
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