Tag: vicky clarke

July 18, 2017

Cascade: WA Ferries proposes huge fare increase for … bicycle trailers?

WA State Ferries has proposed a dramatic fare hike for people pulling a bicycle trailer. For the Bainbridge and Bremerton runs, for example, a person biking with a trailer would have to pay $16 during peak season, a 73 percent increase over the current passenger plus bike fare of $9.20, Cascade Bicycle Club’s Vicky Clarke…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, vicky clarke, washington state ferries
May 15, 2017

Cascade: Redmond stations are a chance to go all out on Sound Transit station access

Transit works better when people can get to the stations. This might seem like an extremely obvious point, but many of the region’s biggest rail and express bus stations have awful walking and biking access problems. Like truly awful: And it’s a lot harder to go back and fix station access problems once the core…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, redmond, sound transit, st3, vicky clarke
February 27, 2017

Bellevue officially approves funding to start ‘rapid implementation’ bike plan

Amid all the other giant issues on the November ballot, it may have been easy to miss the news that the people of Bellevue approved a transportation measure that includes funding to kickstart a renewed effort to get their bike network plans back on track. The city’s “Bicycle Rapid Implementation Plan” is based on Bellevue’s…
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tagged: bellevue, cascade bicycle club, Franz Loewenherz, vicky clarke
January 25, 2017

Take a minute right now to support the E Lake Sammamish Trail permit

It has taken an enormous amount of advocacy pressure over many, many years to get to this point: The final section of the East Lake Sammamish Trail is finally applying for the permits needed to become reality. But this is no time to relax. Though work is already underway on the penultimate section of the…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, e lake sammamish trail, vicky clarke