Tag: cascade bicycle club
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Happy Bike Month! What are you doing to encourage more cycling?
May is National Bike Month, and few American cities get into it as much as Seattle. With a strong downtown employment center that cannot handle more private cars, biking to work is key for the city’s economic development. But economics is not the only reason to bike to work. It is also a personally empowering…
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Bike Jobs: Bike Works service rep + Detours sales rep + Cascade staff writer
There are a lot of bike jobs flying around lately, which is awesome! Seattle bicycle economy keeps growing. I’ve been throwing around the idea of adding a paid job listings feature to the site (like the one on Bike Portland). Does Seattle have enough bike jobs to support a bike-focused job listing service? I think…
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Upcoming N Seattle transit station meetings need your input – UPDATED
Is Northgate Station going to have family-friendly biking and walking access? How about Roosevelt Station? It’s not clear yet. That’s why your voice is needed at these upcoming public meetings to make sure the need for safe and easy access is a priority during station design. From Cascade Bicycle Club: You may have read our…
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Notes from the 2012 Seattle Bike Expo
What can I say about the Bike Expo? Two huge convention floors full of bike stuff. As regular readers of this blog have probably picked up on, I’m not really into high performance bike stuff. I mean, I think it’s cool and an incredible feat of engineering and human capability, but it’s not really my…
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Seattle Bike Expo 2012 Preview: Rad women speakers + Unicycles + Fremont afterparty
The self-described “largest consumer bike show in the United States” will be running Saturday and Sunday at the Smith Cove Cruise Terminal. What can I expect from Cascade Bicycle Club’s Seattle Bike Expo (which, full disclosure, has been advertising on SBB)? Great question! Basically, the Seattle Bike Expo is an overwhelming display of bike stuff…
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State’s safe street design and neighborhood speed bills make progress
Two bills that give municipalities more tools to make streets safer are making good progress in the state legislature. The Safe Neighborhood Speeds Bill (SHB 1217) is headed to the Senate floor for a final vote after passing the House 96-0. The bill — which would give municipalities the option of lowering speed limits on…
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