Tag: seattle transit blog

December 17, 2010

Ballard’s Bikeability: Could Portland’s lessons work well there?

In April, Adam Parast wrote a post for Seattle Transit Blog about a GIS project he had done to analyze a city’s bikeability. The project is full of fantastic information and pondering about what it means for a city or a neighborhood to be bikeable, and how Seattle’s challenges compare to a city that is…
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tagged: ballard, ballard news tribune, islands of bikeablility, portland, seattle transit blog
July 27, 2010

On other blogs: Biking the coast in 1909

A quick roundup of interesting stuff from around the city. Go Means Go has a book review of “Two Wheels North” by Evelyn McDaniel Gibb, the story of two boys who rode their bikes from Santa Rosa to Seattle for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. From the review: On their best day they traveled 64 miles, over…
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tagged: blog roundup, car free days, evelyn mcdaniel gibb, go means go, publicola, seattle transit blog, velo bus driver
July 12, 2010

Over the weekend: Changes to Roosevelt and Jackson

This weekend was amazing for bike riding. Sure, it was sweaty, but there were so many festivals and events going on all over town. And ALL of them had impossible parking and trafic due to road closures … unless you were on bike!
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tagged: an adventure called bicycling, bike hugger, mad fiber, mara abbott, recap, seattle transit blog, velotopia