Tag: summer streets

September 23, 2014

Mayor’s budget: More downtown bike lanes, bike share in the CD, revamped Summer Streets

Mayor Ed Murray unveiled his first ever city budget Monday afternoon, which includes big investments in neighborhoods, an expansion of the Summer Streets program, more funding for protected bike lanes downtown and an expansion of Pronto Cycle Share into the Central District and Yesler Terrace. But the mayor also noted that some big changes in…
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tagged: 2015 budget, bicycle sunday, downtown, ed murray, pronto emerald city cycle share, protected bike lanes, summer streets, sunday parkways
July 31, 2014

It’s time to give Summer Streets and Bicycle Sunday an energizing makeover

People love Summer Streets, Seattle’s summertime open streets events on neighborhood commercial streets in Greenwood, Alki, Ballard and Rainier Valley. They also love Bicycle Sunday, Seattle’s innovative open streets event that has been making sections of Lake Washington Boulevard car-free for a handful of Sundays every summer for decades. Now, imagine if next year Seattle…
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tagged: bicycle sunday, open streets, portland, sally bagshaw, summer parkways, summer streets
May 29, 2014

See you at the Ballard Bike Street Party today?

An afternoon of bikes and car-free streets in the heart of Ballard? Where else would you want to be? The Ballard Bike Street Party is today (Thursday) on both Ballard Ave and 22nd Ave NW from the bell tower to Market St. It’s one part Cascade Bicycle Club party and one part Seattle Summer Streets…
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tagged: ballard, ballard bike street party, cascade bicycle club, hub and bespoke, summer streets
August 27, 2013

Multimodal book tour stop #1: Portland

I am in Portland, the first stop on a multimodal book tour I am taking for the next couple weeks with my partner Kelli Refer. She is promoting her book Pedal, Stretch, Breathe: The Yoga of Bicycling, which just arrived from the printer. Our goal is to travel all around the Pacific Northwest combining trains,…
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tagged: bicycle sunday, kelli refer, multimodal book tour 2013, pedal stretch breathe, portland, summer streets, sunday parkways
August 9, 2013

Seattle will get its first ‘pop-up greenway’ in Phinney/Greenwood Friday

Here’s a brilliant idea: A reusable kit full of neighborhood greenway-like tools that can be installed on neighborhood streets to turn them into something like temporary greenways. What exactly is involved in a “pop-up greenway?” The plan involves education materials at the start and end points (in this case, on 1st Ave NW between 65th…
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tagged: greenwood, phinney ridge, pop-up greenway, seattle neighborhood greenways, summer streets
May 30, 2013

Friday: Bike Month wraps up with street party in Ballard

Ballard will be filled with bikes Friday afternoon for the annual Bike Month street party. KEXP, Cascade Bicycle Club and Summer Streets join forces to bring an afternoon of vendors, happy hour drinks, music and even a bike fashion show. The party starts at Bergen Place Park (Market and Leary Way) and goes from 3:30…
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tagged: ballard, cascade bicycle club, events, kexp, summer streets