Tag: cascade bicycle club

May 26, 2020

Got more bikes than you really need? Bike Match Seattle will connect you with someone who needs it

It’s a surprisingly simple idea. Find people who need bikes, find people who have bikes they don’t need, and then introduce them to each other. That’s basically how Bike Match Seattle works, a project started by Maggie Harger as a response to the covid-19 outbreak. “New York City is where it first started,” said Harger…
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tagged: advocacy leadership institute, bike match, cascade bicycle club, covid-19, maggie harger
May 15, 2020

Cascade staffers are organizing bike deliveries for food banks + How you can help

Cascade Bicycle Club staffers have been organizing to help make deliveries for the U District Food Bank, helping to distribute food to community members. “There are individuals who are immunocompromised or just can’t get out to food bank,” said Cascade Volunteer Coordinator Maimoona Rahim. “We started a couple weeks ago with just staff and board…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, covid-19
May 12, 2020

Car driving is down 91% from pre-outbreak levels on the city’s new Stay Healthy Streets

It made national news last week when Seattle announced that the Stay Healthy Streets (“SHS”) program would be transitioning from an emergency program to a permanent program. For example, a CNN headline read: “Seattle to permanently close 20 miles of streets to traffic so residents can exercise and bike on them.” And yes, the Stay…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, jenny durkan, sdot, seattle neighborhood greenways, stay healthy streets
May 11, 2020

Smith resigns as Cascade/WA Bikes Executive Director

Richard Smith has resigned after nearly three years as Executive Director of Cascade Bicycle Club and Washington Bikes. The news comes as the sister organizations are operating with half their usual staff and cancelled nearly all their major events this year due to the outbreak. Before Smith joined as ED in September 2017, the organizations…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, christopher shainin, richard smith, washington bikes
April 28, 2020

Cascade Bicycle Club cancels nearly all major events for 2020, including STP

Cascade Bicycle Club has made the difficult but clearly correct decision to cancel its 2020 major events, including their iconic Seattle to Portland Classic. The decision sets up a massive test for the large bicycle events and advocacy organization, which funds most of its work through event sponsorships and registration fees. Some events are still…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, covid-19
April 27, 2020

Cascade outlines its advocacy priorities during COVID-19

Like so many other organizations, Cascade Bicycle Club has had to scale back and dramatically redesign how it does work during this outbreak. After furloughing half its staff and surveying people about how they can help during this time, the organization released a four-point platform for its advocacy efforts. From Cascade: In the last few…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, covid-19