Tag: rainier valley

March 12, 2013

Tonight: UW presentation on equity, public health and active transportation

Join UW students this evening for a presentation on the connection between equity, public health and active transportation. Details: a presentation by MPH students in UW Community-Oriented Public Health Practice supported by Rainier Valley Greenways and Lake City Greenways. Study Topics: Outreach to Little Brook in Lake City Signal timing, safety, and pedestrian perceptions on…
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tagged: lake city, rainier valley, uw
January 31, 2013

Bike Master Plan: NE and SE Seattle

This is the fifth post in a series analyzing Seattle’s draft Bicycle Master Plan update. The deadline to comment on the draft map is today (January 31). This post will focus on the Northeast and Southeast neighborhoods. Northeast Seattle Northeast Seattle, which for the sake of this post is anything east of Aurora and north of…
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tagged: 2012 bicycle master plan update, Beacon BIKES, beacon hill, northeast seattle, rainier valley, rainier valley greenways, south seattle, wallingford
November 26, 2012

Whistle Stop Co-op closing in December

Whistle Stop Co-op near Othello Station is closing December 4. The wonderful community cafe also housed a bike shop focused on providing affordable wheels and repairs for people in the neighborhood. We profiled the shop earlier this year. The shop was started in 2011 by Mona Lee and Dick Burkhart, longtime residents who have been…
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tagged: brighton, dick burkhart, mona lee, othello, rainier valley, whistle stop co-op
August 27, 2012

Rainier Valley Greenways launches Friday at Bike Works

With Bike Works and Seattle Neighborhood Greenways taking leadership roles, Rainier Valley joins the ever-growing list of neighborhoods with groups advocating for safe residential streets that make it easier and more pleasant to get around by foot and by bike. If you want to get involved, join Bike Works and other organizers Friday, 6 p.m.…
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tagged: bike works, neighborhood greenways, rainier valley, rainier valley greenways
July 26, 2012

Bike Works launches new groundbreaking family biking projects

Bike Works has hired longtime family biking guru Morgan Scherer to lead a new series of adult programs aimed at making it easier for people to find a family biking solution that works for them and to provide classes for adults who want learn safe roadway biking skills. Scherer, who lives in Rainier Beach, has…
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tagged: bike works, columbia city, family bike expo, family biking, morgan scherer, rainier valley
July 10, 2012

Whistle Stop Co-op will give away free bikes and ORCA cards

Whistle Stop Co-op Cafe and Bike Shop near Othello Station will be giving away free bikes and ORCA Cards as part of a program to remove barriers to cycling and transit use in Rainier Valley. The program, dubbed Live Free or Drive, is funded by a Seattle Office of Sustainability and Environment grant. We wrote…
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tagged: office of sustainability and environment, ORCA, othello, rainier valley, whistle stop co-op