Tag: seattle neighborhood greenways

October 2, 2018

Friday: SNG hosts evening presentation about Dutch cycling culture

“… but Seattle isn’t Amsterdam.” You’ve probably heard this argument at some point as an excuse for why your town shouldn’t even try to build quality bike infrastructure. But half a century ago, death in traffic was rampant in the Netherlands just like the United States. Now they are among the safest in the world.…
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tagged: chris bruntlett, melissa bruntlett, seattle neighborhood greenways
September 27, 2018

Seattle Neighborhood Greenways: Disappointing bike commute data is ‘neither surprising nor inevitable’

Editor’s Note: Seattle Bike Blog reported yesterday on newly-released 2017 American Communities Survey data that estimates that the number of people biking to work is declining in Seattle. In response, the folks at Seattle Neighborhood Greenways wrote this guest post looking at the start-and-stop construction of a useful bike network in our city and discusses where…
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tagged: american communities survey 2017, basic bike network, census, seattle neighborhood greenways
July 31, 2018

CM Mosqueda delivers must-watch speech as Council approves downtown bike lane resolution

The Seattle City Council unanimously approved a resolution Monday calling on SDOT to complete a connected bike network downtown by the end of 2019. As we reported previously, the network includes sections of 8th Ave, 9th Ave N, Pike and/or Pine St, 12th Ave S, King St, and a south downtown pathway between 2nd Ave and…
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tagged: basic bike network, cascade bicycle club, city council, downtown, mike o’brien, sdot, seattle neighborhood greenways, teresa mosqueda
May 29, 2018

The Urbanist: Womxn’s Bike Month Happy Hour is Thursday

Took a rad group of ladies out on an e-bike spin! Most of them had never ridden downtown. They were all smiles. #womxnbike #bikemonth #seabikes @limebike @CascadeBicycle @TranspoChoices pic.twitter.com/jC6uHaQikz — kelsey mesher (@kmesh) May 23, 2018 Womxn are leading the modern urban cycling movement. When a group fighting a safer 35th Ave NE said single…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, keiko budech, kelsey mesher, seattle neighborhood greenways, transportation choices coalition, vicky clarke
May 17, 2018

Bike Everywhere Day is Friday + Where to join a morning ride to City Hall or visit a ‘Celebration Station’

The happiest rush hour of the year is just two days away! Bike Everywhere Day 2018 (formerly known as “Bike to Work Day”) is Friday, and the city will be flush with snacks and swag and group rides and smiling faces. There is usually an extra surge of people in the city’s bike routes, and…
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tagged: bike everywhere day 2018, bike month 2018, bike to work day 2018, cascade bicycle club, seattle neighborhood greenways
May 11, 2018

Seattle Neighborhood Greenways: Save the Basic Bike Network

EDITOR’S NOTE: With Bike Everywhere Day a week away, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways has some ideas for how you can get engaged to help get the downtown Basic Bike Network back on track. If nothing else, scroll to the bottom to see their action items. This is a cross-post from their blog. May is National Bike…
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tagged: basic bike network, bike everywhere day 2018, bike month 2018, downtown, seattle neighborhood greenways