Tag: bike parking
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Bike to “The Kid with a Bike” at SIFF Cinema and save $$
SIFF Cinema Uptown wants you to bike to see The Kid With a Bike in Lower Queen Anne. To lure you, they’re offering $2 discounts on tickets. All you have to do is say you biked there. I chatted with SIFF Cinema’s new Outreach Assistant Naomi Salinas-Burton (formerly of Bike Works), who said the theater…
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Lake City’s Kaffeeklatsch wants to keep unpermitted art bike rack
Lacking any place for customers to lock their bikes, Lake City’s Kaffeeklatsch coffee shop asked the city for a bike rack. However, as we reported one year ago, the city’s bike parking program was put on hold due to budget concerns. With a need for bike parking and no help from the city in sight, the…
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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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SDOT bike parking program on hold, could be cut
In the face of budget cuts, SDOT has put the city’s bike parking program on hold and has offered it up to city leaders as a potential budget cut. From Sam Woods at SDOT: SDOT was required to offer cuts in our budget to make up for a significant shortfall in the city’s General Fund…
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UW bike parking use up 13%
A recent bike-counting survey at the University of Washington reveals a surge in bike parking usage on campus. Bike parking usage has gone up 12.8 percent since last year and 25 percent since 1995. From the UW report: The 2,745 bicycles counted in the 2010 Survey were the most in its fifteen year history. They…
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