Helmet Laws – an Impediment to Bike Share in Seattle?
According to Seattle Bike Blog, both Seattle U and King County are looking seriously at bikeshare programs, akin to Denver’s B-Cycle program. One interesting point at the end of the article is that our...
View Article30 Days of Biking – Day 5
Commuted to work. While the fixie hipsters usually stick to the north-south direction on Capitol Hill (or simply hang at the tennis court/bike polo ground at Cal Anderson Park), I had one riding ahead...
View ArticleBrain Donors
My experiment with riding fixed gear has made me more attuned to other fixed gear riders. I don’t usually see too many, but yesterday I had 3 separate sightings as I chugged up Pine Street out of...
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Aloha Means Goodbye
I don’t know what it is about the stretch of Aloha Street eastbound from 19th to 23rd Avenues. There’s a four-way stop at 19th. A light and “T” intersection at 23rd. Two schools (St. Joe’s; Holy...
View ArticleBike Deaths and Fixie Fashion
This has been a sobering ending to what passes for summer in Seattle, with three recent cycling deaths on and around Capitol Hill. I was down in South Lake Union today for lunch and saw the sobering...
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Nuts at Nutella
I’ve posted before about trademark bullying. It’s a classic example of letting legal process take precedence over good business judgment – and it illustrates starkly why it’s often a bad idea for a...
View ArticleWA Proposes $25 tax on Bicycles
Democrats in the Washington legislature have just announced details of the next decade’s $9.8 billion transportation budget. Included in the budget? A proposal for a new fee (likely a sales or excise...
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Another Reason Seattle’s Bag Ban Sucks
Besides increasing the number of bags that have to be recycled, lengthening the wait in checkout lines, forcing me to buy cat poop bags, and on more than one occasion causing me to leave Safeway...
View ArticleRep. Orcutt Still at it
I had thought perhaps Rep. Ed Orcutt was concerned with environmental or economic justice. But via Bikehugger, we learn that Orcutt has walked back his silly comments about the environmental impacts of...
View ArticleLukewarm on Seattle Bike Share
Hub and Bespoke blog wrote the other day about Seattle bike share, with some nice links to posts about how great these systems are in other cities. And they are great; I love the systems I’ve used when...
View ArticleSeattle Bike Share Nears
With Seattle (finally) getting a bike share system later this year, the Puget Sound Bike Share program has put together an interactive site showing proposed bike share station locations. You can vote...
View ArticleEbola Bike Ride!!
Ebola craziness has come to this: completely asymptomatic nurse Kaci Hickox – whose only crime was to treat unfortunates in West Africa for Ebola – is trailed by police when she defies a state-ordered...
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