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There are trees growing through the grate in the 4th Avenue bike lane buffer
There are a half dozen trees growing out of the metal grate in the buffer space protecting the 4th Avenue bike lane downtown across the street from Westlake Park. I noticed them while biking home Wednesday evening, and I had to stop. They are the same kind of tree as whatever is growing on the…
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Under new law, Washington communities must plan around ‘multimodal level of service’
Imagine a street in your neighborhood that is difficult to cross on foot, scary to bike on and/or where buses are constantly getting stuck in car traffic. I know, this was not a difficult imagination exercise. Streets like this are everywhere in Washington State. But when people try to get their city, county or—worst of…
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Action Alert: Tell the Feds to strengthen traffic crash data
We don’t often post Federal action alerts here, but this very boring-sounding Federal policy change could have big implications for understanding our nation’s traffic safety crisis. So it’s worth taking a moment to submit a comment. Salud America sounded the alarm and created an action alert you can use to quickly submit a comment to…
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I’m getting an award!
The secret is out: Cascade Bicycle Club will be naming me the 2023 recipient of their Doug Walker Award as a person who “has improved lives through bicycling.” Folks with tickets to the sold out Bike Everywhere Breakfast May 4 downtown will be able to watch me get the award and hear me deliver a…
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Is it Bicycle Weekend? No, just a sunny Saturday
Had an amazing time biking to Seward Park and back today, and from what I can tell half of Seattle had the same idea. The photo above is Lake Washington Boulevard. And no, it’s not Bicycle Weekend yet. Just a sunny Saturday. Tell us about your bike adventure in the comments below.
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How to bike downtown during the emergency Link service disruption
Link light rail trains will only be running through the downtown transit tunnel every 32 minutes during a period starting now and lasting an estimated two weeks, Sound Transit announced Thursday evening. Mike Lindblom at the Seattle Times reported that the construction crew working on the Pine Street rebuild damaged the lid over Westlake Station…
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