Tag: action alerts

October 10, 2024

Move Redmond: Add protection to buffered bike lanes in the city budget + A note on evolving bike lane terminology

Move Redmond put out an action alert asking people contact the Redmond City Council and/or attend one of the upcoming public hearings on October 15 urging them to add enough funding to upgrade the city’s planned buffered bike lanes to protected bike lanes. Now, I may be biased because Move Redmond’s Executive Director Kelli Refer…
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tagged: action alerts, buffered bike lanes, kelli refer, move redmond, protected bike lanes, redmond
August 14, 2024

Trail connection to planned Roanoke Lid would restore a historic Seattle bike path + Tell WSDOT not to cut it

Not only would the Harvard Ave path connect the Roanoke Lid and 520 Trail along a safer and less steep route, it would also restore a small piece of Seattle’s first ever bike paths. You can support a Central Seattle Greenways effort to protect the proposed path from budget cuts on the freeway megaproject. The…
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tagged: action alerts, central seattle greenways, history, i-5, interlaken, lake union bike path, lake washington bike path, roanoke, roanoke lid, sr 520, wsdot
July 11, 2023

Action alert from People For Bikes: Treat e-bikes like pedal bikes in National Parks

People For Bikes, the national advocacy organization, has put out an action alert urging people to support a rule change that would give superintendents of National Parks “greater authority to allow the use of e-bikes wherever traditional bicycles are currently allowed.” Many National Parks are typically already rather restrictive about bicycle access, so this rule…
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tagged: action alerts, national parks, people for bikes
June 22, 2012

Action Alert: Biking and walking safety could get cut in Federal budget

You know what to do. Get on the horn and make sure Sen. Patty Murray, as a key Senate leader, and Sen. Maria Cantwell know that biking and walking safety is vital to the nation’s transportation budget. The deadline for a new bill is drawing near, and there are worrying rumblings that Senate and House…
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tagged: action alerts, federal government, maria cantwell, patty murray