Bikenomics: I spend more money on the military than on my bicycle
I have a terrible, dirty little secret. Even though I depend on my bicycle as my primary means of transportation and spend my days writing about bicycles on this blog, I spend more money on war than on...
View ArticleYou have to ride to work this week to get counted
This week is not the week to take a break from bike commuting. SDOT is conducting their bicycle and pedestrian counts May 10-12, according to the SDOT Blog. So if you want to get counted, you gotta...
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Bike Portland: Blumenauer sees House anti-transit, biking and walking bill as...
House GOP thinks this girl's desire to safely bike to school is bankrupting America “This is chance to prove that the [bike] movement is real,” bike-friendly US House legislator from Oregon Earl...
View ArticleAction Alert: Biking and walking safety could get cut in Federal budget
You know what to do. Get on the horn and make sure Sen. Patty Murray, as a key Senate leader, and Sen. Maria Cantwell know that biking and walking safety is vital to the nation’s transportation budget....
View ArticleNew Federal Transpo Bill slashes bike/walk safety, will use air quality funds...
The news out of Washington DC is grim. The drastically underfunded biking and walking budget has been slashed as much at 60 – 70 percent, and biking and walking advocacy groups appear resigned to...
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Biking and walking funds at risk in Federal transpo budget
Senators Rand Paul and Mike Lee think this SRTS funding rate is too high.As of a December 2012 report there had been ZERO collisions reported at any of Washington State’s Safe Routes to School project...
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Lugo: Federal complete streets bill a chance for bike justice
From left: Adonia Lugo, me and Davey Oil in 2011. Photo by Anne-Marije Rook A bill making its way through the US Congress would require every state to develop a complete streets policy for projects...
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Seattle gets stack of Federal funds for protected bike lanes downtown, on...
The Feds are going to help make more of this happen in Seattle Seattle will officially receive a stack of Federal cash to build protected bike lanes downtown and on Broadway (we reported on the...
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City receives that sweet Federal cash to help build downtown bike lanes (+...
Under the cover of an oddly warm April night, an unidentifiable person hidden in shadows and conveniently missed by every security camera pedaled a high-tech stealth bakfiets into the Seattle City Hall...
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