Tag: georgetown

November 18, 2011

Airport Way bridge set to close for a year or more

Biking (and driving and walking) to Georgetown from the north is about to get a little more difficult as the Airport Way viaduct just north of the neighborhood goes under construction for 12-14 months. People biking will be detoured all the way to 1st Ave S between S Lander St to S Lucile St. For…
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tagged: airport way, airport way south viaduct, construction, georgetown, sodo
August 8, 2011

Dead Baby Downhill 2011 recap (with video!)

The 2011 Dead Baby Downhill was a raucous bash that some claim to be the biggest bicycle party on the west coast. What began with a road-rash-prone, sometimes legal downhill race (though most who ride do not race at all) ended with a huge bash, featuring beer, music, dancing, tall bike jousting, a pedal-powered carnival…
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tagged: anne-marije rook, dead baby bike club, dead baby downhill 2011, events, georgetown, photos, riding reporter, video, west seattle, west seattle blog
August 5, 2011

Driver flees after striking a person cycling near Georgetown

The driver of a truck that struck a 25-year-old person cycling on E Marginal Way near S Dawson St near Georgetown around 2 a.m. this morning fled the scene. The victim went to the hospital, but none of the injuries were life-threatening. A witness followed the truck after the hit-and-run and was able to get…
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tagged: georgetown, hit and run, injuries, marginal way
August 4, 2011

Weekend guide: Dead Baby Downhill + More naked biking

The fifteenth annual Dead Baby Downhill takes off from West Seattle Friday evening. The DBD is an annual bicycle bash hosted by the Dead Baby Bike Club. Tall bike jousting, freak bikes, pedal-powered mania from Cyclecide, music… basically a huge party. The race starts at Shipwreck Tavern at Admiral Way and California in West Seattle.…
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tagged: cyclecide, cyclonudista luminata, dead baby bike club, dead baby downhill 2011, events, georgetown, naked bikers, nsfw, races, west seattle, world naked bike ride
April 18, 2011

Freight group upset that city cares about bike safety

There are these wonderful moments where opponents to bicycle projects just come right out and say what they mean. It’s refreshing to hear a group’s arguments against lanes without them being distorted into, say, an Orwellian desire to “protect” cyclists from dangerous roads by not building bike lanes. Some freight groups oppose proposed changes to…
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tagged: 2011 paving, airport way, bike lanes, georgetown, industry, manufacturing Industry council, marginal way, mic, publicola, sharrows
December 2, 2010

Help load bikes for the Village Bicycle project Saturday

The Village Bicycle Project is packing a shipping container full of bicycles destined for Ghana, but they need your help. The load-in will be Saturday, Dec. 4 at Total Reclaim (AKA Ecolights NW) in Georgetown from 9 a.m. until the late afternoon. Show up whenever you can for however long you can, but it would…
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tagged: georgetown, village bicycle