Seattle Drivers Not Sure if They Have Hit Everyone Yet
Who knew that a lack of rain would make Seattle drivers even worse? At midnight, record-keepers will be marking into … Continue reading Seattle Drivers Not Sure if They Have Hit Everyone Yet
Tag: cycling
Will Road Rage in Sleepy West Seattle Fuel Drive for Street Safety?
Seattle police are, this morning, on the hunt for a woman who hit a 24-year-old man with her car, near the 9400 block of 11th Avenue Southwest in West Seattle. Police say it was intentional, and they know who she is. A little over a week ago, West Seattle Greenways co-founder Jake Vanderplas was also the victim of an intentional hit-and-run. Continue reading Will Road Rage in Sleepy West Seattle Fuel Drive for Street Safety?
Cyclists! Redhook Brewery’s Forecasters Pub Welcomes You Once More
The big change is a large horseshoe bar with an interior row of seats, encircled by a thinner counter area where people can stand and rest their drinks. Then there’s a section of long, wooden tables for German-style beer drinking, while the rest of the restaurant is filled with the same shiny metal-topped tables found out on the patio. Continue reading Cyclists! Redhook Brewery’s Forecasters Pub Welcomes You Once More
Op-Ed: In-City Bicycling is Not a Road Race (cc: SDOT)
In 1992, 20 percent of cyclists downtown were women. By 2011, total cyclists had increased 200 percent, but only 22 percent of the 3,330 bicyclists spotted in a one-day count were women. In a city with as many outdoorsy women as Seattle boasts–trust me, REI membership is not 22 percent female–that’s not an accident. It’s a discriminatory by-product. Continue reading Op-Ed: In-City Bicycling is Not a Road Race (cc: SDOT)
Uff Da! Ballard Defies Trend Toward Cycling on Safer Streets
They may well be popular in Ballard, too, but at a recent greenways open house, “several” of the 100 audience members were upset about the plan, reported MyBallard. Sample comment: “Neither SDOT, McGinn, nor the bicycle mafia could care less what the community thinks. They are hell bent on ruining the city for drivers, and will stop at nothing to do it.” Continue reading Uff Da! Ballard Defies Trend Toward Cycling on Safer Streets
The B.C. in Victoria, B.C., Stands for Bike Canada
Your four basic options are these: The Seaside touring route, where you follow mostly quiet roads along the water (you’ll be tempted to take that beachside multi-use path, but it’s for foot traffic, no bikes), the Galloping Goose (which forks off into the Lochside Trail) and the Interurban Trail. Continue reading The B.C. in Victoria, B.C., Stands for Bike Canada
Touring Kent’s World-Renowned Earthworks by Bike
You didn’t know that Kent boasted an earthwork by a major Bauhaus artist, did you? (Graphic designers will know Herbert Bayer as the creator of the Universal typeface.) The restoration effort meant improving “drainage in the bowls, repav[ing] the pathways and reshap[ing] the double-ring pond,” along with “re-sodding the double-ring pond, and restoring the view corridor along the stream.” Continue reading Touring Kent’s World-Renowned Earthworks by Bike