Author: Tom Fucoloro

October 7, 2024

We just hit 10,000 miles on our 3-year-old family cargo bike

Our family cargo bike just rolled over to 10,000 miles. It took three years as our primary mode of kid transportation to get there. Even as much as I talk up how great an electric cargo bike can be as a family-hauling vehicle, I may still be underselling it. 3,333 miles per year is equivalent…
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tagged: cargo bikes, tern gsd
October 3, 2024

Proposed 2025 Seattle budget shows why passing the transportation levy in November is so important

Mayor Bruce Harrell’s proposed 2025-26 SDOT budget (PDF) had to be written assuming the 2015 Move Seattle Levy will expire at the end of 2024 without a replacement. So it is a grim look at how SDOT’s work would be gutted if voters do not approve the Seattle Transportation Levy (Proposition 1) on the November…
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October 2, 2024

Bike Portland answers my question: Where are the downtown Portland protected bike lanes?

Last week, I published a story recapping a wonderful train plus folding bike trip my kid and I took to Portland shortly before the start of the school year. Though we had a great time biking around and exploring the city together, I was surprised by the lack of complete and connected protected bike lanes…
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tagged: bike portland, jonathan maus, portland
September 30, 2024

Everyone in the Puget Sound region should fill out this road safety plan survey

As with other places across the nation, traffic deaths and injuries are rising at a desperate rate. Across the Puget Sound Region, annual traffic deaths have nearly doubled since 2010. We have almost reached one per day. If you live in King, Kitsap, Pierce or Snohomish Counties, take this survey about the Puget Sound Regional…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, puget sound regional council, regional safety action plan, state of safety in the region
September 27, 2024

Alert 9/28-29: Trail to Montlake Playfield and 520 Bridge Trail across Lake Washington closed

The 520 Bridge Trail will be closed from 11 p.m. tonight (September 27) until 5 a.m. Monday (September 30). The Bill Dawson Trail, which connects from Montlake Boulevard to Montlake Playfield, will also be closed starting 10 p.m. Friday until the same time Monday.
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tagged: Bike Route Alert, bill dawson trail
September 27, 2024

Sunday: Cascade and SN Greenways will co-host free ride to promote November’s transportation levy

Seattle has made a lot of big improvements to biking using voter-approved funds from 2015’s Move Seattle Levy. That levy ends this year, but voters have the chance this November to approve an even better version to replace it. Cascade Bicycle Club and Seattle Neighborhood Greenways have both endorsed the 2024 Seattle Transportation Levy and…
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