Tag: bicycle alliance of washington

January 30, 2012

House unanimously passes Neighborhood Safe Speeds Bill

The Neighborhood Safe Speeds Bill (HB 1217) passed the state House 96-0, giving it a huge amount of momentum heading into the Senate. Last year, the bill died in the Senate’s Transportation Committee, but advocates and lawmakers have placed added emphasis on the low-controversy, no-cost safe streets bill this year. From the Bicycle Alliance of…
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tagged: bicycle alliance of washington, hb 1217, HB 1700, neighborhood safe speeds bill
January 24, 2012

Washington State disproportionaltely underfunds walking and biking

Despite the fact that 13.6 percent of Washington traffic fatalities are people either walking or biking, the state allocates only 0.5 percent of its transportation budget (and 2.7 percent of its federal funds) to walking and biking projects. Seattle has fourth highest walking and biking commuter mode share in the country at 11.5 percent (not…
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tagged: 2012 Benchmarking Report, alliance for biking and walking, bicycle alliance of washington, blake trask, safe routes to school, state
January 4, 2012

Bicycle Alliance: Why the Neighborhood Safe Speeds Bill should pass

We have written several times in support of HB-1217 (now SHB-1217), which passed the House with unanimous, bipartisan support 92-0 last year before dying in a Senate committee. The Neighborhood Safe Speeds Bill would simply give municipalities the option of lowering the speed limits on lower-traffic and residential streets to 20 mph. Today, an expensive…
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tagged: 2012 legislature, bicycle alliance of washington, hb 1217, neighborhood safe speeds bill
October 19, 2011

The neighborhood safe speeds bill has unanimous, bipartisan support

20’s Plenty For Us from Streetfilms on Vimeo. Last year, freshman state Representative Cindy Ryu sponsored a bill that won wide, unanimous and bipartisan support. HB 1217 would allow municipalities to bypass red tape when lowering speed limits on non-arterial streets (such as residential streets). The House voted 92-0 to approve the bill, but it…
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tagged: beacon hill, bicycle alliance of washington, cindy ryu, hb 1217, king 5, mike mcginn, neighborhood greenways, willie weir
October 6, 2011

Bicycle Alliance announces reformed strategic plan, vision

The Bicycle Alliance of Washington announced their reconfigured strategic plan for 2011-2016, and it’s chock full of citizen biking, safety and a focus on being inclusive. The release of the new plan, which has been in the works since spring 2010, comes just months after the Bicycle Alliance hired Blake Trask (of the Seattle Bicycle…
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August 31, 2011

Bike Port in Pioneer Square to close in December

Bike Port, the Bicycle Alliance of Washington’s secure indoor bike parking facility attached to JRA Bike Shop in Pioneer Square, is closing at the end of the year. The service, housed at 3rd and Jackson, is membership-based and was created mainly to provide commuters with a secure bike parking facility near downtown with lockers and…
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tagged: bicycle alliance of washington, bike parking, bike port, downtown, jra bike shop, pioneer square