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  • Bike-and-Ride: New bike cage opens at Beacon Hill Station

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    Tom Fucoloro

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    Image from Sound Transit
    Image from Sound Transit

    If you live or work within an easy bike ride of Beacon Hill Station, you no longer need to lock your beloved ride outside all day or night exposed to theft, vandalism and weather.

    Sound Transit has opened a new secure bike cage at the station, and it costs $50/year to get a spot. That’s 20¢ per work day. And unlike expensive park-and-ride lots, bike cages can pack a ton of bikes into a relatively small space.

    The catch is that you have to print out, complete and physically mail this application (PDF). I know! Who has a printer anymore? Or stamps?

    The most obvious use for the cage is for people who live on Beacon Hill to access the station easier and faster. More than half the neighborhood is within a 10-minute bike ride of the station: (more…)

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  • Announcing FREE BIKE: A people’s festival pouring into the streets early July

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    Tom Fucoloro

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    cropped-SkylineSlider1-1Hop on a bike, and your city opens in front of you. No stop-and-go crawl down the highway, no watching your hard-earned money tick away a dollar-per-second at the gas pump, no stressing about the time left on your paid parking sticker. A bike is nearly free to ride, a bike lane frees you from the traffic crawl and biking frees your soul from the mundane.

    A bike ride is a love letter to your city. And that’s why Seattle Bike Blog is very excited to announce FREE BIKE, a ten-day open source bicycle festival July 1–10 for and by people like you.

    Inspired by Pedalpalooza in Portland and Velopalooza in Vancouver, FREE BIKE invites anyone to host their own group rides, parties, bike-in movies, discussions or anything else you can imagine. If you want to make it happen, we will collect the details on the FREE BIKE calendar and help spread the word.

    Express yourself, meet new people and explore your city like you’ve never experienced before. That’s what FREE BIKE is all about.

    There are only a few rules to being a host: You take full responsibility for your own event, and it must be free to participate.

    Want to share your knowledge of neighborhood history? Lead a tour by bike! Is there a social issue near to your heart? Lead a bike ride to rally around the cause! Ever dreamed of cruising down Broadway with your bike posse blasting Sir Mix-A-Lot? I will join if you make it happen! (more…)

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  • Bike News Roundup: 1975 report suggests building transit tunnel to replace the Viaduct

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    Tom Fucoloro

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    It’s time for the Bike News Roundup! Here’s a look at some of the bikey stuff floating around the web recently.

    First up! This 1975 archive report from KOMO about mass transit in Seattle is worth all 25 minutes of your time. They even talk about how a transit tunnel downtown could allow us to tear down the viaduct. Hey, we built that tunnel decades ago. Let’s get going on that teardown!

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  • Police searching for hit-and-run suspect who injured man biking in Issaquah

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    Tom Fucoloro

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    Anderson posted these sample images of the types of car that may have been involved. It may be missing the passenger mirror.
    Anderson posted these sample images of the types of car that may have been involved. It may be missing the passenger mirror.

    Police are searching for the person who struck and injured a man biking in Issaquah Wednesday morning and fled the scene.

    Though he was hauled off to the hospital on a stretcher, Dave Anderson escaped the collision with minor injuries. He’s scraped up and bruised, but was able to give interviews to media asking for help finding the person responsible.

    “I have no doubt that the driver who was less than 3 feet from me was aware that they hit me,” Anderson wrote in a Facebook post about it.

    Both the suspect and Anderson were headed northbound on the Issaquah-Hobart Road near Foothills Baptist Church, the Issaquah Press reports when the person driving crossed into the shoulder and hit Anderson. Police say he was thrown 40–50 feet.

    From KOMO: (more…)

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  • Beacon Hill trail is a big neighborhood greenway improvement

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    Tom Fucoloro

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    IMG_43722015BikeMap-bhg copyThe Beacon Hill Neighborhood Greenway was one of the city’s first attempts at creating a great community-led neighborhood greenway, and it just got a lot better.

    This route was already one of my favorite neighborhood greenways in the city, connecting from the I-90 Trail to Georgetown via Beacon Hill Station and Jefferson Park. But as pleasant as the ride through Jefferson Park is, it requires winding park pathways and some fairly steep climbs. If you’re on a joyride, the park is great, but if you’re trying to get somewhere as directly and easily as possible, it’s quite a detour.

    With leadership from community members like Beacon Hill Safe Streets and Mercer Middle School, Seattle’s Safe Routes to School program constructed a new, flat trail that bypasses the park’s hills and connects 16th Ave S near the school to Lafayette Ave S north of the park.

    A previous park access project built a great new crossing from Lafayette to Jefferson Park, so this new trail builds on that project to make it even easier for people of all ages and abilities to get around the neighborhood on foot and bike. (more…)

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  • Specialized apologizes for ‘better bike shop’ ad on wreckage of Greenwood bike shop

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    Tom Fucoloro

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    Photo from G&O Family Cyclery
    Photo from G&O Family Cyclery

    The bicycle giant Specialized apologized today after G&O Family Cyclery tweeted photos of a street advertising campaign pasted on the wreckage of their former Greenwood shop that says, “BETTER BIKES COME FROM BETTER BIKE SHOPS.”

    G&O was severely damaged in a major gas explosion a month ago, prompting a big community effort to raise money to help the shop find a new location and keep its expert staff (including a fundraiser organized by this blog, Peddler Brewing and Familybike Seattle). G&O recently announced a new temporary location a block north on Greenwood Ave.

    “I feed bad about it,” said Erick Marcheschi, Global Marketing Manager at Specialized. “It was 100 percent not intentional.”

    Marcheschi said the company contracts with street advertising companies in several cities including Seattle. Specialized provides the artwork for the ads, but the contracted companies (in this case Poster Giant) finds and chooses the locations.

    “They’re looking to opportunities where there are plywood surfaces they can put these wheatpastings on,” said Marcheschi. “It’s really unfortunate that this was one of those surfaces.”

    He has contacted Poster Giant to have them remove the ads as soon as possible. (more…)

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