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National Park Service Makes Bad Design Proposal for the Spruce Rail Road...
The Bicycle Alliance of Washington and the Peninsula Trails Coalition are announcing that the National Park Service (NPS) has released the Environmental Assessment and preferred alternative for the...
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Seattle Road Safety Summit on October 24th, 2011
Monday, October 24th, the Mayor and City Council will be convening the first in a series of three road safety summits. The meeting will be held in the Bertha Knight Landes Room at City Hall (on the...
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Support Complete Streets for Spokane
All of us use streets, right? We use streets to get to work, school, run errands, and to visit family and friends. Sometimes we move around our community in cars, but we also use transit, walk and...
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Olympic National Park Opts for Better Spruce Railroad Trail Alternative
Thanks to public comments from citizens and advocacy groups like the Bicycle Alliance of Washington and Peninsula Trails Coalition, Olympic National Park has announced that an 8-foot asphalt trail...
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January Construction Update: Hood Canal Bridge Bicycle Safety Improvements
After July’s agreement between the Bicycle Alliance of Washington, local bicycle clubs and advocates, and the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), construction work began in November...
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Legacy and Bicycling: How Do We Build a...
Guest Blogger Adonia E. Lugo is an anthropologist and activist who uses ethnographic research on bicycling to advocate for social justice in urban sustainability. A doctoral candidate at the University...
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Sound Transit to Add Bike Parking at Mount Baker and Beacon Hill Stations
Photographs by the author On Wednesday February 13, Sound Transit (ST) staff, members of the ST Bicycle Advisory Group and other interested parties took a tour of the Mount Baker and Beacon Hill light...
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Streets are for Everyone: Involving Children in Tacoma’s Complete Streets...
This post originally appeared on The Congress for the New Urbanism’s blog, CNU.org/salons. The post was written by Nicholas Richter and Josh Jorgensen, planning interns for the City of Tacoma. THE...
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Bicycle Urbanism Symposium at the University of Washington June 19-22
In late January I wrote a post inviting your participation in the University of Washington’s Bicycle Urbanism Symposium. Several months have passed and now we are just two weeks from the event. We have...
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Sound Transit to Add Bike Parking at Sumner and Puyallup Sounder Stations
Photographs by the author except as noted Sound Transit bike locker signage On Wednesday May 22, 2013 I joined a Sound Transit (ST) tour of the Sumner and Puyallup Sounder stations. The tour was...
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Bicycle Urbanism Symposium a Smashing Success.
After considerable anticipation and planning over the past year and a half, the Bicycle Urbanism Symposium has come and gone. The College of Built Environments at the University of Washington recently...
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Familybike Seattle Offering “Get Started Family Biking Seminars”
This Saturday July 20 from 2-5PM, Familybike Seattle is offering a “Get Started Family Biking Seminar” in Wallingford. Familybike Seattle is a non-profit, whose mission is to decrease barriers to...
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Delivering More Bike Parking for Seattle
This post was contributed by Kyle Rowe and Brian Dougherty from the Seattle Department of Transportation Imagine being able to bike almost anywhere and know you can easily find parking for you and your...
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Remaining Active in the Golden Years
On Christmas Day, my partner Steve and I assembled an adult tricycle for his 88-year-old father. “I’ve come full circle,” mused Steve. “Forty-five years ago, my Dad would have been putting a bike...
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Bike Clark County, Vancouver Housing Authority Team Up
Partnership brings bicycling to low income kids Today’s post is written by guest blogger Amy Horstman of Vancouver. A year round bike commuter, Amy is a dedicated volunteer for Bike Clark County. She...
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30 Days of Biking, Day Two: Flexibility
Day Two in the 30 Days of Biking, 30 Words, 30 Pictures series I didn’t choose “flexibility” as my word for today just because I didn’t make it to the noon yoga class at Salt Room Yoga a block away...
View ArticleSafe Streets Workshop This Thursday in Longview
Join Washington Bikes, Cowlitz on the Move, Pathways 2020, and Healthy Communities Washington for an informative workshop on Safe Streets this Thursday, April 10, in Longview. Last year, Washington...
View ArticleApril 19 is Free Day at WA State Parks
Interested in doing some biking or hiking in a Washington State Park but lack a Discover Pass? No worries. Saturday, April 19 is a “free day” for day use activities at WA State Parks. This is your...
View ArticleVolunteers Needed for Special Olympics Cycling Event
Nearly 2800 Special Olympics athletes will compete over three days at the 2014 Summer Games at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, May 30-June 1. Volunteers are needed to help with the Special Olympics cycling...
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All Kinds of Riders for all Kinds of Reasons
Today’s post is written by Brian Foley of Black Diamond. Brian has been associated with the bicycle industry for over 15 years and is a member of the Washington Bikes board of directors. At Washington...
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