Tag: mike mcginn

August 28, 2012

Seattle’s first Road Safety Action Plan launches Wednesday at Denny/Westlake

The city is ready to launch its Road Safety Action Plan, the product of last year’s Road Safety Summit and the work of a committee of advocates and city representatives. It will be unveiled at noon Wednesday at the corner of Westlake and Denny. Speakers will start at 1 p.m. The plan “lays out the…
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tagged: mike mcginn, road safety action plan, road safety summit
May 18, 2012

Fremont bike counter, school bike train plans unveiled at City Hall Bike to Work Day rally

Cascade is pretty sure that Fremont’s bike counter will be the first such counter in the nation when it is unveiled this summer. The 7.5-foot-tall counter by Eco-Totem will tick away counting the number of people biking on either side of the Fremont Bridge, keeping daily and annual tallies updated live for everyone to see.…
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tagged: bike counter, bike month 2012, bike to school day 2012, bike to work day 2012, bryant elementary, car free days, fremont, kexp, mike mcginn
May 17, 2012

Bike to Work Day preview + Map of Commute Stations

Friday is Bike to Work (and School!) Day, which is pretty much a holiday for folks on two wheels. There will be Commute Stations all over the region, many of which will be armed with snacks and coffee. In a change from recent years, the main station will be outside KEXP studios at Dexter and…
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tagged: ballard, bike to work day 2012, cascade bicycle club, downtown, events, kexp, mike mcginn
March 21, 2012

Jay Inslee visits Bike Works, discusses the benefits of bicycle education

Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Jay Inslee visited Columbia City today, kicking off the walking tour with a stop at Bike Works. The neighborhood tour comes as the candidate kicks into full campaign mode (and, as Eli Sanders at the Stranger writes, the governor hopeful needs to make an impression even in the democratic stronghold of Seattle,…
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tagged: bike works, columbia city, deb salls, jay inslee, mike mcginn
March 1, 2012

Collisions drop 23 percent on redesigned Nickerson – UPDATED

Changes to Nickerson St in 2010 have resulted in a 23 percent drop in collisions, the city reported during a press conference today. Last year, Publicola reported that traffic volumes on Nickerson remained consistent, as the city had predicted. Average speeds dropped from over 40 mph to 34-37 mph, which is still higher than the…
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tagged: mike mcginn, nickerson, peter hahn, queen anne, road diets, ship canal trail
February 22, 2012

In speech, McGinn praises neighborhood greenways and Fremont’s bicycle economy (sorta)

In a speech very much focused on big economic investments, public safety, social justice and education, Mayor McGinn took a few moments to acknowledge the important role of safe streets both for public safety and economic development. Though he doesn’t use the phrase “bicycle economy” like we did in a post about Fremont’s bike-powered boom…
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tagged: fremont, mike mcginn