Tag: seattle children’s

September 6, 2017

Seattle Children’s study: School bike trains increase physical activity (of course)

Organizing a bike train to school is an effective way to significantly increase the amount of daily physical activity every child needs to be healthy, a study out of Seattle Children’s found. OK, I know that sounds like a no-brainer. And it is. But it’s cool to see that actual figures. The bike train activity…
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tagged: bike trains, bike works, jason mendoza, safe routes to school, seattle children’s
April 23, 2015

Seattle Children’s leads new WA Bicycle Friendly Businesses

The League of American Bicyclists has announced their newest Bicycle Friendly Business ratings, and Seattle Children’s leads the way in Washington State. And that should come as no surprise to anyone following all the work the hospital has done recently to encourage employees to bike to work. They went way beyond just providing quality bike…
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tagged: bike-friendly business, league of american bicyclists, seattle children’s, washington bikes
March 23, 2015

Seattle Children’s one of few workplaces in nation with on-site bike shop

You’re on your way to work when your bike starts go get harder and harder to pedal. You try to ignore it, as though that might make the problem go away. But of course it doesn’t. You pull over and confirm: You have a flat. Now image this: Instead of fixing the flat right there…
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tagged: jean godden, laurelhurst, sally bagshaw, seattle children’s
December 23, 2014

Huffington Post spotlights Seattle’s bike to school movement, research

The Huffington Post has a great profile of some of Seattle’s bike to school efforts and research by Seattle Children’s to learn more about its effects on students. We have written many times about Seattle’s bike to school revolution. It’s one of the coolest things happening in the city in recent years as schools and…
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tagged: anne king, car free days, huffington post, jason mendoza, lynne peeples, maya jacobs, safe routes to school, seattle children’s
December 4, 2014

Advocate for safe and active streets picked to head city’s transit division

Paulo Nunes-Ueno was Director of Transportation and Sustainability at Seattle Children’s when the institution wanted to expand its northeast Seattle campus. To help mitigate the traffic impact the larger campus would have on the neighborhood, Nunes-Ueno lead a cutting edge effort to help connect the campus to the nearby neighborhood, transit service and the Burke-Gilman…
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tagged: paulo nunes-ueno, sdot, seattle children’s, transit division
July 29, 2014

How Pronto plans to make bike share work even with Seattle’s helmet law

King County has a very rare all-ages helmet law, which will certainly complicate the launch and daily operations of Pronto Cycle Share in September. But fueled by a grant from Seattle Children’s, they are forging ahead with an ambitious and novel plan to make it work using a streamlined and simple helmet checkout and return…
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tagged: bike share, helmet laws, helmets, king county board of health, pronto emerald city cycle share, seattle children’s