Tag: sunday parkways

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
February 14, 2014

Bicycle Sunday dates announced + When will we hold the first SEAclovia?

The city has announced 12 Bicycle Sundays for 2014, the same number of events as 2013. The open streets events on Lake Washington Boulevard in south Seattle date back to the 1970s. The iconic and beautiful lakefront road is closed to cars and opened to people running, biking, scootering and any other happy, people-powered way…
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tagged: bicycle sundays, open streets, seaclovia, sunday parkways
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