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Saturday: R+E Cycles celebrates 50 years in the U District
R+E Cycles is turning 50 years old, and the storied bike shop and frame builders behind the Rodriguez and Erickson custom bikes will be celebrating by hosting the return of the free Bike and Pike expo for the first time since 2019. Bike and Pike runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday (March 4)…
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Draft of SDOT’s Vision Zero review suggests internal reorganizing and more funding, but it feels small compared to our traffic violence emergency
On his first day on the job, SDOT Director Greg Spotts pledged a “top-to-bottom review” of the department’s Vision Zero program to figure out why traffic injuries and deaths are increasing, especially for people walking and rolling. He assigned employees from outside the Vision Zero team to perform the review, and they released a draft…
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Alert 2/25-26: The 520 Trail will be closed (along with the rest of the bridge)
SR-520 will be closed this weekend as crews install girders for the future walking and biking bridge that will cross the freeway heading toward the Arboretum, among other work. The cross-lake trail will be closed along with the rest of the freeway this time. The work is scheduled to begin 10 p.m. Friday and end…
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Construction to build major bike improvements brings many months of tough detours on Pike and Pine
Crews building improved bike lanes on Pike and Pike Streets downtown will close existing stretches of bike lanes for months at a time. So while both bike lanes were already incomplete, biking there will get worse before it gets better. Central Seattle Greenways has sounded the alarm about the sorry detour options for this major…
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Watch: Why cars rarely crash into buildings in the Netherlands
With all the discussion recently about how people crash a car or truck into a Seattle building about twice a week, a commenter reminded me of a Not Just Bikes video from a couple years ago about why this rarely happens in the Netherlands:
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I’m giving my first talk about my book Thursday (free, online) + Release delayed until August
Well, I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that publication of my book Biking Uphill in the Rain: The Story of Seattle from behind the Handlebars has been pushed back to August due to delays in the proofing and printing process. I’m pretty bummed because I was really looking forward to…
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