Tag: cascade bicycle club
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Now’s the time to get your Bike Everywhere Challenge team together
The annual Bike Everywhere Challenge (formerly known as the Bike Month Challenge and the Bike To Work Challenge) starts May 1, so now is the time to join an existing team or talk to coworkers and friends and form a new team. You can also sign up solo. The collective goal for the region is…
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Cascade calls for more bike/walk station access funds in ST3
Sound Transit’s latest ballot measure draft would spend $661 million in transit funds to build car parking near stations. Seattle Transit Blog did the math and found that each new parking space would cost $80,000. To put that in perspective, a person could park their car at a station every day for 50 years and…
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Bike around South King County for Cascade’s Major Taylor Project Saturday
Cascade Bicycle Club’s Major Taylor Project offers after-school programs for students at 14 schools in South King County and Pierce County. “Bike Club” provides 300 students “a forum for helping students develop confidence, goal setting abilities, bicycle maintenance and handling skills, and deep connections with their peers and communities,” according to Cascade. Saturday’s Ride for…
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For a few hours, two Seattle freeways were bike-only (Photos)
For a few short hours just after sunrise Sunday, two major Seattle freeways were beautiful places filled with smiling people. There were no honking horns and no road rage even as a rush hour’s worth of people traveled some of the most traffic-clogged freeways in the nation. That is, of course, because the 7,000 people…
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Cascade’s sold out Emerald City Ride takes to the freeways Sunday + Route Map
Cascade Bicycle Club’s first ever Emerald City Bike Ride takes to area freeways Sunday. The ride sold out all 7,000 spots, and I’m not surprised. People have wanted to bike across the 520 Bridge since it opened half a century ago. And while Bicycle Sunday was held on the I-5 Express Lanes decades ago, biking…
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Ahead of Eastside Trail meetings, sign this petition for an interim trail ‘sooner and cheaper’
The Eastside Trail is poised to revolutionize non-motorized travel on the Eastside, so why wait? Let’s get an interim trail constructed and usable as soon as possible. We already reported on King County’s draft Trail Master Plan, which is now out for public input. You can have your say at there are three open houses,…
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