Tag: commuting

March 17, 2023

Commute Seattle survey: Driving, transit and walking down, biking unchanged, and remote work way up

Commute Seattle dramatically expanded its annual analysis of work trip survey data, finding a wealth of interesting data about how the city’s commute patterns have changed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The biggest change by far is that as of late 2022, remote work was more than seven times higher than before the…
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tagged: commute seattle, commuting
June 9, 2016

Your boss should go to this bike summit Friday

Tell your boss to spend tomorrow at Cambia Grove downtown learning all about how to help your workplace be more bike-friendly. Encouraging biking is a great way both to improve employee morale, attract more customers and cut down on your business’s dependence on car parking. So it’s a win-win-win. Cascade Bicycle Club’s 2nd Annual Seattle…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, commuting, seattle employers bike summit
April 27, 2016

What Viadoom? Take control of your own commute by biking

The Alaskan Way Viaduct is closing Friday for two weeks as Bertha tunnels precariously under its foundation. As people who drive and take the bus (especially in Viaduct-dependent West Seattle) fret about the threat of huge traffic backups, there is one dependable way you can take control of your own commute: Bike. Aside from the…
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tagged: commuting, king county water taxi, viadoom, west seattle, west seattle bike connections
September 19, 2013

Census data confirms steady climb in Seattle bike commuting, driving alone now below 50%

Bike commuting is at an all-time high in Seattle and continues to climb, according to Census survey data. Perhaps a bigger symbolic moment has been reached, however: Driving alone to work is now below 50 percent in the city of Seattle, demonstrating a sea change in the way people in our city choose to get…
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tagged: american communities survey 2012, census, commuting
June 25, 2013

In 1990, Seattle topped Portland and nearly every other US city in bike commuting

Here’s a stat that should light a fire under the exhaustively-slow Seattle process that has delayed so many needed bicycle safety and access work: Seattle used to be at the very top of cycle commuting in the US and Canada. Today, while the city still holds a high spot, it is drifting further into the…
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tagged: commuting, john pucher, portland
February 22, 2013

Seattle’s bike commute hot spots

Do you live in a bike commuting hot spot? The Seattle Times’ Gene Balk (AKA: FYI Guy) published an interactive map today displaying bike-to-work rates according to neighborhood. Unlike the map we posted last spring showing BikeScore’s bike commuter map (see attached), the Times map attempts to organize the data by neighborhood segment. “North University”…
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tagged: bike score, commuting, seattle times