Tag: josh cohen

December 15, 2016

After six years documenting bike culture, Cohen ends The Bicycle Story

For the past six years, Seattle’s Josh Cohen has been documenting bicycle culture and inspiring people powering cycling movements on his excellent blog and podcast series The Bicycle Story. So when Cohen announced this week that he is putting The Bicycle Story to rest, I wanted to get his insight on how the culture has…
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tagged: josh cohen, the bicycle story
April 26, 2016

Must Read: ‘Bike equity must be more than a conversation’

Seattle’s Josh Cohen has a must-read story out on Next City looking at how too many bike advocacy groups around the U.S. struggle (or even resist) embracing equity as the core of their work. But Cohen also interviews several more recent leaders in the bike advocacy movement who get it, like Show Roll Chicago’s Oboi…
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tagged: ed ewing, josh cohen, julian agyeman, next city, oboi reed
March 10, 2016

Listen: The Bicycle Story podcast takes on the history of the sharrow

Seattle’s unofficial motto could easily be “The City of the Sharrow.” Keegan Hamilton at the Seattle Weekly once suggested the Seattle Sharrows as a name for a D-League basketball team. And sure, why not? Take one glance at major streets in all corners of the city, and you’re bound to see two chevrons with a…
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tagged: james mackay, josh cohen, sharrows, the bicycle story
December 3, 2015

Saturday: Join us for a screening of Bike vs Cars and an after-show chat

Bikes vs Cars is a new documentary that attempts to lay out the global and local problems caused by car culture and car infrastructure in our cities and how people in cities across the world are pushing back, often while pedaling around their cities on two wheels. The film is screening at the Grand Illusion…
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tagged: bikes vs cars, grand illusion cinema, josh cohen
August 17, 2015

Pronto adds low-income housing partner + L.A. may offer transit/bike transfers

Pronto Cycle Share announced a new partnership with Bellweather Housing last week, expanding the number of low-income residents who have access to reduced cost Pronto memberships to nearly 5,000. Bellweather joins Capitol Hill Housing in providing residents access to annual memberships as low as $20 for people making 30 percent of median income or less…
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tagged: josh cohen, next city, ORCA, ORCA Lift, pronto emerald city cycle share
May 29, 2015

The Bicycle Story: Bill Davidson on making bike frames in Seattle since the 70s

Bill Davidson has been building bike frames in Seattle since 1973, and he didn’t let little details like nobody here knowing how to do it (and, therefore, able to teach him) get in his way (Rodriguez and Erickson also started in 1973). So it should be no surprise that the closure of his longtime shop…
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tagged: 333fab, bill davidson, davidson, davidson-kullaway custom bicycles, fremont, josh cohen, max kullaway, the bicycle story