Tag: knute berger
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Berger: Seattle’s first cycling renaissance led by 1970s biking mayor
Mike McGinn has certainly done a lot to change the image of cycling in Seattle and to make cycling a more central part of the city’s transportation strategy. That’s why we have endorsed him. Under his leadership, the percentage of Seattle workers biking to their jobs has grown more than 37 percent, according to Census…
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Berger: 20 bike shops on 2nd Ave and plans for bike paths all over the city? Welcome to 1900 Seattle
Crosscut’s Knute Berger has started a series about urbanism in Seattle with a piece exploring the first bicycle boom in the city. Around the turn of the 20th century, bicycling was so popular that an estimated 10,000 of the city’s 80,000 residents rode bikes. This popularity manifested as a powerful political force lobbying the city…
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