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Why a top tube child seat is our favorite way to bike
OK, don’t get me wrong. The electric-assisted, weather-protected cargo bike is without a doubt the workhorse for our car-free family. We put thousands of miles on that thing every year, hauling everything from lumber to groceries to camping gear. And, of course, hauling our preschooler. It is amazing. But whenever I ask the kid whether…
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Parks announces scaled-back schedule for 2023 Bicycle Weekends on Lake Washington Blvd
Seattle Parks announced a scaled-back schedule for Bicycle Weekends on Lake Washington Boulevard (known since 1968 as Bicycle Sunday). The route and number of weekends are the same, but the timeframes have been cut back significantly. The department also removed the July 4 holiday from the schedule. The lineup is still larger than years before…
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WA budget includes emphasis on safety + E-bike incentives
The Washington State legislature has officially passed the 2023-25 budget, which includes significant increases in traffic safety funding as well as new e-bike incentives. Washington Bikes celebrated the budget news, calling the investments in biking and walking “unprecedented.” The appropriations (PDF) for the three-year period include $175.5 million for “active transportation” projects and programs, including…
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Seattle needs to do some major soul searching after what happened to Mamy Mbiya Lutumba
A single mother of four was killed, the person responsible fled, and nobody even bothered to tell her children. This happened in our city, Seattle, and everyone needs to stop what they’re doing and acknowledge it. The story of what happened to Mamy Mbiya Lutumba and her four children is inexcusable on many levels. Our…
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Best Side Cycling: Playing GeoGuessr-like game, but with photos of cars in Seattle bike lanes
OK, this is amazing. As a GeoGuessr fan, this game is right up my alley. Or perhaps I should say that this game is parked right in my bike lane. Sanders Lauture created a program last year that allows people to submit photo reports of cars parked in Seattle bike lanes via social media or…
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Watch: We know this street design is deadly, so why do we keep building them this way?
Seattle’s recent Vision Zero review noted that 80% of people killed while walking on Seattle streets are killed on streets with multiple lanes in the same direction. So why are we on the verge of opening a brand new streets through Belltown near Pike Place Market with multiple lanes in the same direction? I ride…
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