Tag: brock howell

February 17, 2016

Howell: As Seattle adds jobs, how are the new workers getting there?

Editor’s Note: Every year, we write about newly-released Census data on commute modes in Seattle and communities across the country. In this guest post, Brock Howell dives even deeper, analyzing just Seattle’s new commutes. What he finds has lessons for what the city is doing right and what we need to change in order to…
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tagged: brock howell, census
December 29, 2015

After big election wins, Howell leaves a more grassroots-focused Cascade

To many grassroots bike activists in the Seattle area, Brock Howell may have been until recently the face of Cascade Bicycle Club. Howell left Cascade in November shortly after an election where the club’s advocacy team was a major part of the Move Seattle levy win, and seven of eight Cascade-endorsed City Council candidates won…
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tagged: brock howell, cascade bicycle club
August 3, 2015

Community unites to buy honest stolen bike buyer an even better ride

What started as yet another stolen bike story morphed into a wonderful tale of a guy who simply did the right thing and a community that came together to thank him … and then some. Yang bought a $500 bike on OfferUp — a free classifieds website based in Bellevue that has become a hotbed…
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tagged: bike index, bike thefts, brock howell, stolen bike recoveries, yang
August 4, 2014

City bans dangerous right turns across Dexter bike lane at Mercer

Ever since Broad Street closed for good and Mercer changed from one-way to two-way, people biking southbound on Dexter Ave have faced a new danger: Cars making right turns in front of them to access westbound Mercer. But the city announced recently that they are taking action by banning motor vehicles from making right turns…
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tagged: brock howell, cascade bicycle club, construction, dexter, mercer mess, mercer west, sdot
November 1, 2013

Let’s fund Safe Routes to Parks in Seattle’s next levy

Almost every Seattle resident agrees: Parks should be safe and fun. But so should the routes to get there. Like parks, safe streets become places where people gather and play. They become spaces where neighbors can be neighbors as well as safe ways to get from homes to destinations. So why not embrace streets that…
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tagged: 2014 parks levy, brock howell, cascade bicycle club, safe routes to parks