By Paul Andrews, BI editor on November 4, 2009
They snickered when Mike McGinn started off his campaign by showing up at cycling events with “MIKE BIKES” stickers. How quaint. He’s going after the funny-hats-and-clicky-shoes vote. It was a startlingly unconventional way to build a base, campaigning in a bike helmet and blazer. But McGinn knew something that cyclists have long suspected: We’re a [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Obama Bikes | Tagged cascade bicycle club, cycling candidates, mike mcginn, seattle bicycle
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on October 28, 2009
I was out of town and unable to attend the Traffic Justice Summit at Seattle’s City Hall a couple of weeks ago, but thanks to great work by the folks at Seattle Channel, a video has been posted on the Web. The presentation also will broadcast on TV via Seattle Channel (21 on Comcast cable) [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Obama Bikes, Rider Down | Tagged cascade bicycle club, city attorney tom carr, cycling deaths, David Hiller, kevin black, state senator adam kline, traffic justice summit
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 15, 2009
While loved ones of cyclists killed in car collisions testified at Seattle City Hall yesterday… With a sobering reminder posted outside … Cyclists were mourning the death of Mary Yonkers by hit-and-run trailer truck in San Mateo CA. Far away geographically, perhaps, but united in cause. Best of luck to Seattle’s Cascade Bicycle Club and [...]
Posted in Rider Down | Tagged cascade bicycle club, cycling deaths, David Hiller, traffic justice summit seattle
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on October 5, 2009
Seattle’s Cascade Bicycle Club, the nation’s largest local cycling club with more than 11,000 members, continues to do yeoman advocacy work on behalf of cyclists mowed down by careless— and uncaring — drivers. At City Hall from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 14, the club will host a traffic justice summit with city [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Obama Bikes | Tagged bicycle deaths, cascade bicycle club, David Hiller, traffic justice summit
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 6, 2009
Mike McGinn, the bicycling candidate for mayor of Seattle, must wonder what you have to do to get a bike club’s endorsement. McGinn rides his bike everywhere, including commuting daily downtown from his Greenwood home, he shows up at bike rallies like Bike to Work Day with his “Mike Bikes” stickers, he is squarely in [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Culture, Obama Bikes | Tagged cascade bicycle club, Greg Nickels, mike mcginn, 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 10, 2009
If somehow you just crawled out from a manhole cover, or returned from a space shuttle mission, and you haven’t figured out where to watch or listen or log onto the 2009 Tour de France, Bike Hugger has the rundown… I watch the Tour on Versus, follow results on Velo News and listen via Twitter. [...]
Posted in News Cycle | Tagged cascade bicycle club, Hornby Island mountain biking, jeff mapes, STP ride, tour de france 2009
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
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