Transportation
Issues involving safe streets, slow streets, bicycle safety, bicycle commuting
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on October 16, 2009
Good comments queue in the Cascade Bicycle Club advocacy forum re Wednesday’s Traffic Justice Summit in Seattle City Hall. We’ll post a link to Seattle Channel video when it becomes available. Meanwhile, SeattleLikesBikes notes how statistically, BikesDontLikeSUVs…
Posted in Advocacy, Obama Bikes, Transportation | Tagged cascade bicycle club, Seattle Traffic Justice Summit
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on October 14, 2009
More motivation to attend today’s summit, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Seattle City Hall: BikePortland: Good links and commentary on Texas tandem mowdown. Yes it was an unfortunate accident, but hey, it’s vehicular manslaughter any way you cut it. SeattleLikesBikes is tracking bike deaths statistically. Even a casual glance shows that most bike deaths do [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Obama Bikes, Rider Down, Transportation | Tagged Advocacy, bicycle deaths
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on October 9, 2009
SF Streetsblog: Bicycle beats chopper in Sao Paulo, Brazil … don’t you love it! Cyclelicio.us: Bike guys are sexier than any other sports guys. And if anyone should know, it’s Yokota! Get your tickets now online for the Race Across the Sky one-night movie event Oct. 22. The feature depicts this year’s Leadville 100, won [...]
Posted in Lance's Chances, News Cycle, Transportation | Tagged bike commuting, marin biketoberfest, race across the sky
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on September 22, 2009
The Stranger: Analyzing how “Bikin’ Mike” McGinn, the mayoral candidate who actually commutes downtown by bike each day, might cope with a traditional mayoral schedule. Interesting take, but in using existing mayor Greg Nickels’ car-biased schedule as a model, the article assumes McGinn would adopt a similar approach to his official calendar. Anyone who rides [...]
Posted in Obama Bikes, Transportation | Tagged mike mcginn, seattle mayor, Transportation
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on August 20, 2009
Are car drivers anti-cycling “terrorists”? SeattleLikesBikes says yes, sometimes: “Personally, my car was killing me before I started bicycling. The lack of exercise had me on track for a heart attack. I’ve made great strides, from being unable to climb 3 flights of stairs without being out of breath over 5 years ago to bicycling [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Culture, Obama Bikes, Transportation | Tagged 3 feet please, cascade bicycle club, cycling terrorism, vehicular assault
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on August 18, 2009
With nearly half the ballots counted, “Mike Bikes” McGinn is the front-runner in the race for Seattle mayor, leading another challenger, Joe Mallahan, and incumbent Greg Nickels in a squeaky three-way dogfight separated by about 2 percentage points (and only around 1,000 votes) near the 25-percent mark. Of the three, Mallhan is the most bike-unaware, [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Obama Bikes, Transportation
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on August 8, 2009
A 26-year-old male cyclist hit a car which was turning left into a driveway on the south side of Northeast 45th Street in Wallingford (Google street view here). The cyclist was taken to Harborview with life-threatening injuries. The Seattle Police Department is investigating. As someone who rides this route nearly every day, some thoughts: The [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Obama Bikes, Transportation | Tagged bicycle fatalities, David Hiller, Erica C. Barnett, publicola
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on August 3, 2009
Calendar time: At City Hall this Friday a transportation summit will look at Puget Sound’s future transportation matrix, and how bike and other alternative forms will figure in. Here’s Cascade Bicycle Club’s take. Please come and share your views! Town Hall:
Visioning the Puget Sound Region’s Transportation Future.
Part III – State and Federal Perspectives [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Obama Bikes, Transportation | Tagged cascade bicycle club, Culture
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 17, 2009
Some days a poor bike just can’t catch a break. In Leavenworth WA, a bike got blamed for “Passion of Christ” actor James Caviezel’s “minor injuries” when a man “hurled a bicycle into the path” of Caviezel’s motorcycle. C’mon motos are bikes too! They just have combustion engines on them… In South Carolina, a man [...]
Posted in Advocacy, News Cycle, Transportation | Tagged Burke-Gilman Trail missing link, Cascade Bicycle Club Seattle
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 2, 2009
The bike tax bogeyman has reared its senseless head in Portland. Bad place to raise that canard. BikePortland.org is on the case and has major media alerted. Publicola: Bikes will be allowed on Seattle’s new light rail trains after all on opening weekend, after the Cascade Bicycle Club organized a huge protest. Erica C. Barnett [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Culture, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Transportation | Tagged bike bumping, bike levy, Bike tax, california state park closures, caltrain, cascade bicycle club, sound transit
