Tag: adonia lugo

September 21, 2018

Dr. Adonia Lugo returns to Seattle Saturday to discuss her book Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance

Dr. Adonia Lugo is returning to Seattle Saturday to talk about her book Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance. Lugo lived in Seattle for a spell a few years back while working on her anthropology dissertation on bicycle culture. Before that, she was a founder of Los Angeles’ massive open streets event CicLAvia. While in Seattle,…
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tagged: adonia lugo, bicycle/race
March 21, 2017

Dispatches from the WA Bike Summit: Dr. Adonia Lugo on ‘fighting for the better world we know when we’re out on a ride’

I’m at Cascade Bicycle Club’s Washington Bike Summit, a two-day conference that coincides today with Active Transportation Lobby Day. As I write this, people from all over the state are volunteering their time to meet with their state Representatives and Senators and urge them to support biking, walking and transit during the legislative session. That’s…
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tagged: adonia lugo, cascade bicycle club, wa bikes, washington bike summit 2017
March 16, 2015

Building a strong, inclusive community for safe streets is the future of bike advocacy

Seattle Bike Blog made its first ever trip to the National Bike Summit and Women Bike Forum last week. The theme “Bikes+” was meant to explore cycling as part of the equation to make places better for many reasons, helping to solve a wide variety of problems. As biking shifts from being a fringe activity,…
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tagged: adonia lugo, national bike summit 2015, seattle bike justice project
February 10, 2014

Lugo: Federal complete streets bill a chance for bike justice

A bill making its way through the US Congress would require every state to develop a complete streets policy for projects that receive Federal funding. That means road projects would need to consider all road users, including people on foot and bike. Seattle already has such an ordinance, but not Washington State. Passing the Safe…
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tagged: adonia lugo, federal government, league of american bicyclists, safe streets act of 2014
July 15, 2013

On walking and biking justice in America

In the wake of the weekend’s not-guilty verdict in the trial of George Zimmerman, my mother called me from St. Louis completely outraged. She was certain that there must be some kind of law against following a person who was just walking down the street, getting into an altercation with them, and then shooting them.…
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tagged: adonia lugo, gardena, los angeles, transportation justice, trayvon martin
February 26, 2013

The Bicycle Story: Adonia Lugo talks transportation equity

Josh Cohen at The Bicycle Story recently interviewed Adonia Lugo, a friend, bicycle anthropologist and all-around bad ass who lives on Capitol Hill. Chatting and working with Adonia and Davey Oil (who blogs at Riding on Roadways) has done a lot to develop how I see the role of cycling in our city. The two…
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tagged: adonia lugo, davey oil, josh cohen, seattle bike justice project, the bicycle story