Tag: sound transit

March 20, 2012

Upcoming N Seattle transit station meetings need your input – UPDATED

Is Northgate Station going to have family-friendly biking and walking access? How about Roosevelt Station? It’s not clear yet. That’s why your voice is needed at these upcoming public meetings to make sure the need for safe and easy access is a priority during station design. From Cascade Bicycle Club: You may have read our…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, events, northgate station, roosevelt station, sound transit
December 2, 2011

Cascade: Get involved with Northgate light rail planning

Cascade Bicycle Club is working to make sure bicycle access to the future Northgate light rail station is safe and easy. They previously laid out a strong argument for investing in biking and walking infrastructure around the future station site, including a new, extremely effective biking and walking bridge over I-5 (see above). Now, Cascade…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, light rail, Max Hepp-Buchanan, northgate, northgate station, sound transit
November 1, 2011

Sound Transit offers $10 ORCA to try Columbia City Station’s new bike lockers

As the weather changes, Sound Transit is urging people to bike to Rainier Valley light rail stations, then take the train to downtown. A new “bike plaza” at Columbia City Station has secure bike lockers for up to 46 bikes. There are bike lockers at Rainier Beach, Othello and Columbia City Stations. On top of…
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tagged: bike lockers, columbia city, light rail, ORCA, sound transit
February 9, 2011

Sound Transit installs bike lockers in Rainier Valley

Amid concern about bicycle security at some Link stations, Sound Transit has installed bike lockers at Columbia City, Othello and Rainier Beach stations. There were at least six reported bike thefts at Columbia City station last year, according to ST. Bike lockers can be rented for a $50 fee, plus a $50 refundable deposit. They…
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tagged: bike lockers, columbia city, light rail, link, othello, rainier beach, sound transit
January 25, 2011

Town hall with the mayor in U Dist tonight

Cascade points out that there are two good opportunities in the U District this week to speak up in support of biking. Considering how full UW’s bike parking is, it should be easy for some of you to bike over to the University Heights Center for one or both of these: U-District Mayor’s Town Hall…
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tagged: brooklyn station, cascade bicycle club, mike mcginn, north link, sound transit, university district, uw
December 3, 2010

November bike thefts

View Larger Map Here’s the first monthly bike theft roundup. I had been doing these weekly, but thought I would change things up. What do you all think? Is a monthly report more or less useful/interesting than weekly? The data comes from SPD online police reports. See the dot on the Columbia City Link station?…
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tagged: bike lockers, bike thefts, columbia city, light rail, sound transit