Tag: washington bikes

March 8, 2023

WA Bikes: Driver’s license review bill ‘very likely’ + More legislature updates

We are well into the phase of the legislative session where it becomes really difficult to keep track of which bills are moving, which ones are stalled, which have been amended to be better, which have been amended to be worse, and which are dead. So I highly suggest signing up for legislative updates from…
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March 1, 2023

WA Bikes: Turn on red bill is dead, license reexamination bill moving forward + more legislature updates

Washington State bills banning turns on red near many key locations statewide are officially dead after neither the Senate nor the House failed to move them forward before a session deadline. This is how many bills die every year, essentially running out of momentum rather than getting voted down. It’s common for an idea to…
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tagged: 2023 legislature, washington bikes, WrongOnRed
February 14, 2023

WA Bikes: Legislative updates ahead of a big Friday deadline

Policy bills must be voted out of a committee in either the Washington House or Senate by Friday in order to stay alive this legislative session. Washington Bikes is urging people to contact your legislators to ask them to advance the bill to ban turns on red at certain locations across the state. They have…
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January 30, 2023

Sign in now to show the WA Senate and House you support limiting turns on red

Both the state Senate and House are holding hearings on what Washington Bikes is calling “#WrongOnRed,” an effort to ban turns on red near certain locations like schools, parks, hospitals, senior centers and other areas with lots of walking activity. You can “sign in” on the record to voice your support for the bills as…
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tagged: 2023 legislature, HB 1582, SB 5514, washington bikes, WrongOnRed
December 2, 2022

Cascade announces 2023 events, including long-awaited returns of RSVP and the Emerald City Ride

Cascade Bicycle Club this week released its first full-strength events schedule since 2019. The 2023 season will see the return of two major rides that have been sadly missing in recent years: The Emerald City Ride and the Ride Seattle to Vancouver and Party (“RSVP”). The Emerald City Ride launched in 2016 as an annual…
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January 10, 2022

WA Bikes: ‘There’s opportunity abound’ in short 60-day state legislative session

State legislators seemed determined to pass a major transportation funding bill during the 2021 session, but the focus on highway spending and backwards ideas like a tax on bicycles ultimately helped stall the effort until the session ran out of time. There was even talk of a special session to get the effort passed, but…
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tagged: 2022 legislature, alex alston, marko liias, washington bikes