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Sunday’s Ride for Major Taylor has West Seattle and Tacoma options + Dongho Chang will headline Bike Month Breakfast
As you may have noticed from the advertisement on Seattle Bike Blog, Cascade Bicycle Club’s 2023 Ride for Major Taylor is Sunday. And the ride has two completely different route options that both start at the White Center Bicycle Playground: A shorter 26-mile loop around West Seattle, South Park, Burien and White Center, and a…
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Seattle Neighborhood Greenways event will imagine ‘pedestrian streets in every Seattle neighborhood’
OK, OK, yes, it is ridiculous that Pike Place allows cars (especially non-delivery vehicles). But that is just one little street downtown, and it tends to take up most of the space in local conversations about pedestrianizing streets. Let try this statement on for size: There should be at least one pedestrian street in every…
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Bicycle Film Festival returns to Seattle May 6
The Bicycle Film Festival will screen May 6 at the Egyptian Theater on Capitol Hill. And among the short films featured is “A short film about Seattle bike messengers, day laborers, and outsourcing gone wild.” Tickets are $30. From the event listing: BFF Seattle presents an international short film program. Oscar nominated and award-winning shorts…
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Why an e-bike incentive program is one of the best transportation investments Washington can make
The Washington State Senate and House are both mulling over how to incentivize more residents to ride electric bicycles, and the Senate’s version of the state budget would provide a $300 rebate for any state resident who buts an e-bike or $1,200 for low-income e-bike buyers. These rebates would bring the cost of owning an…
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Rainier Valley Greenways: How to make ‘Bicycle Weekends’ on Lake Washington Blvd better
Since 1968, Seattle Parks has been hosting car-free days on Lake Washington Boulevard during the spring and summer. It’s one of the longest-running open streets events in the world, and the department partnered with SDOT in recent years to expand it to last full weekends. As planning gets underway for the 2023 season, Rainier Valley…
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City awards E Marginal Way contract, work to start in fall
A complete rebuild of E Marginal Way has been in the works for a long time, and work is set to finally get under way this autumn. The street is both a major bike route and the trucking access point for several Port terminals, and the project has been an example of bike safety and…
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