Top Things to Know & Do

1. Wash your hands for 20 seconds with soap, several times every day.
2. Don't touch your face.
3. Practice social distancing by going on as many bike rides as possible.

Lifestyle, Adventure, + Industry

Upcoming Activities

• Thursday, Mar. 12
  • 7p, Point 83 Thursday Night Social Ride
• Friday, Mar. 13
  • 7-9a, Seattle Bike Train
  • 6-8p, Swift's Frame Bag Making Workshop
• Saturday, Mar. 14
  • 10a-1p, SLOW Ride to Explore Historic Red Line
  • 9a-1p, TWBC's Pi Day Ride
• Tuesday, Mar. 17
  • 6-7p, Tacoma 2nd Cycle's Volunteer Orientation
• Wednesday, Mar. 18
  • 5-6p, Bike Works' Public Tour
• Thursday, Mar. 19
  • 6-8p, Tacoma 2nd Cycle's Open House
  • 7p, Point 83 Thursday Night Social Ride
• Friday, Mar. 20
  • 7-9a, Seattle Bike Train
  • 6-8p, Tacoma 2nd Cycle's WTF Night
• Saturday, Mar. 21
  • 9a-1:30p, Lake Union History Ride
  • 10a-2p, 6th Annual Dandy Daffodil Tweed Ride (La Conner)
• Sunday, Mar. 22
  • 9a-3p, Cascade's Seattle Bike Swap
  • 5-9p, Bike Works' Bikecitement Fundraiser! (buy tickets by 3/18)

Articles

• Coronavirus
  • Working @ home and missing your bike commute? Here’s an invitation. WSBC
  • Coronavirus and the commute: Average speeds increase noticeably as many workers stay home. GeekWire
  • Seattle Bike Show limits weekend event due to coronavirus; Seattle Bike Swap, Sea Otter Classic postponed. BikingBis
  • Cascade's response to COVID-19. Cascade
  • REI closes five stores in Seattle area for deep cleaning. Bicycle Retailer
• Seattle Bike and Outdoor Show at CenturyLink kicks into gear this weekend. Seattle Times
• The Seattle Bike and Outdoor Show is this weekend. SBB
• How Free Range Cycles works every day to become a more and more welcoming bike shop. SBB
• ‘SPLAIN’ survey rates Seattle bike shops by how comfortable women, trans, femme and gender nonconforming people feel there. SBB
• Watch: Talking about the SPLAIN bike shop survey with creator Roxy Robles. SBB
• Portion of Green River Trail in Kent closed due to erosion. Kent Reporter
• State's first black-owned brewery creates positive change in Woodinville. Woodinville Weekly
• Teen's bicycle-donation drive exceeds expectations. WSB
• Teaching the Joys of Bicycling as a Major Taylor Project Ride Leader. Cascade
• A Wrenching Experience. Cascade
• Chilly Hilly 2020 Photos. Kitsap Sun
• Kick off bicycle season at Chilly Hilly on Bainbridge Island. Seattle Times
• Cascade Bicycle Club and Seattle Public Schools Implement Major Expansion of Bicycle Education. Bicycle Retailer
• Obliteride's new director gets geared up. Fred Hutch
• Rad Power Bikes Renews Partnership with Cascade to Expand Cycling Across Washington. Cascade
• Rad Power Bikes CEO wants e-bikes to be as widespread as smartphones. PSBJ
• Rad Power ebikes might be the future of commuting. Boing Boing
• Electric Bicycles Excluded from Tariffs by US Customs. Ride - Kelley Blue Book
• Everything you need to know before buying an electric bike. Curbed
• Memories of Summer: Lake Bessemer. Rene Herse
• Ted King’s Tips for Choosing Gravel Tires. Rene Herse
• Looking Back Over the 2010s. Rene Herse
• Mix a Margarita on a Blender Bike at Seattle Cocktail Week. KING5
• Bikepacking with Oregon Field Guide. Family Ride
• Women of SDOT: Meet Annya Pintak. SDOT
• Sign-up Your School for the 2020 School Bike Challenge & National Bike to School Day. ThurstonTalk
• How Did We Get Here: Transportation to EvCC. EvCC Clipper
• Port Gamble is ready for spring, are you? Kitsap Daily
• Texting About Biking. Bike Style Life
• Columbia River Gorge Tour Concept Part 1: Seattle to Dayton. Bike Style Life
• It’s Bike Love Day! Bike Style Life
• Rant & Rave: Reader urges bike riders to be courteous on trail. Seattle Times
• May 9: Introduction to Bicycle Touring for Women. Seattle Central College

Policy + Infrastructure

Take Action

• Register for the Washington Bike, Walk & Roll Summit (April 26-27). Cascade
• TCC: Contact your legislators now to support fully-funded transit. SBB

Upcoming Events

• Tuesday, Mar. 10
  • 8:30-10a, SNG Skype: Age-Friendly Coalition, Transportation & Public Spaces Committee
  • 7:30-9p, Licton-Haller & Greenwood-Phinney Greenways meeting
• Wednesday, Mar. 11
  • 6-8p, Broadview Home Zone Community Meeting: Design for Dayton Ave N improvements
• Thursday, Mar. 12
  • 6-7:30p, SNG's "Connect the Downtown Basic Bike Network" Planning Meeting
• March 15-17: National Bike Summit
• Saturday, Mar. 14
  • 12:30-2p, Joint Meeting of the Green Lake & Wallingford Safe Streets, Maple Leaf Greenways, NE Seattle Greenways, University Greenways advocacy groups
• Tuesday, Mar. 17
  • 6-7:30p, Rainier Valley Greenways meeting
  • 6:30-8p, Duwamish Valley Safe Streets meeting
• Saturday, Mar. 21
  • 1-3p, South Park Neighborhood Walk with Duwamish Valley Safe Streets

News

KING COUNTY

Seattle & North King

• General
  • Seattle slips to No. 14 for worst traffic nationally, but your commute downtown is still bad. Seattle Times
  • SNG: Report traffic signals that don’t give enough walk time or skip the walk unless you push a button. SBB
  • Happy Anniversary, Sam Zimbabwe! SDOT
  • Climate Protesters Block Streets In Downtown Seattle. Seattle Patch
  • YOUR VOICE, YOUR CHOICE … and your dollars! Time for spending suggestions. WSB
  • Time to submit your ideas for park and street improvements. MyBallard
  • Analyzing and improving safety for bicyclists in Seattle. Erik Sunde
  • Major changes to come to Northeast 185th and 5th Ave NE. Sound Transit
• North Seattle
  • 130th
    • Light rail station at 130th could be a change order. DJC
    • Sound Transit to start building 130th Street Link station this year, increasing project costs. PSBJ
    • Sound Transit Board advances construction elements of NE 130th Street infill station. Sound Transit
  • Flurry of transportation and housing activity comes to Northgate. PSBJ
  • New rendering of Northgate pedestrian bridge emerges as city breaks ground. DJC
  • How the Burke-Gilman Trail came to be. DJC
  • Route 44 improvements are refined at 30% design. STB
• Central Seattle
  • Someone posted an official-looking notice warning of plans to close 2nd Ave bike lane section. SBB
  • WSDOT Prepares to Open Brand New Seven-Lane Road through Seattle. Urbanist
  • Connection to Thomas Street Overpass Slated for Upgrade. Urbanist
  • With love for raised crosswalk, speed humps, curb ramps, curb bulbs, and protected bike lanes, Melrose next for Capitol Hill street overhauls. CHS
• South & West Seattle
  • Rainier
    • Rainier Traffic Safety Campaign. SDOT
    • King County Metro seeking community input on future RapidRide R Line in Rainier Valley. Capitol Hill Times
    • Review Rainier RapidRide Designs in New Metro Survey. Urbanist
    • Metro seeks feedback for RapidRide R, to replace Route 7. STB
  • Planter Boxes in South Seattle Bike Lane Removed After Complaints. Urbanist
  • 15th and Columbian Way Gets Another Chance at Redesign. Urbanist
  • East Marginal Way: Pop-up meetings, survey as SDOT moves ahead with long-awaited safety project. WSB
  • Delridge
    • Herbold: Delridge Way SW – RapidRide H Line Project: SDOT final report. Westside
    • Seattle’s new ‘mandatory’ bike lane law faces its first real test on Delridge Way SW. SBB
    • Herbold: SDOT Report on Delridge Way SW and bicycle lanes. Westside
  • Group Walk to Duwamish Longhouse. WSBC
  • What’s ahead on the bumpiest section of 26th SW. WSB
  • New ‘photo enforced’ sign near Fairmount Park Elementary – and this one’s real. WSB

Eastside

• Amazon employees' drive-alone rate in Bellevue could get lower than Seattle. Here's how. PSBJ
• Cities Have a Responsibility for Safe Streets. Bellevue is Poised to Act. Cascade
• Inrix CEO says autonomous shuttles could be running in Bellevue by year's end. PSBJ
• $2 million transportation improvement board grant accepted. Redmond Reporter

South King

• With newly-opened section, the Lake to Sound Trail is tantalizingly close to reaching the regional trail network. SBB
• New segment of Lake to Sound Trail opens, linking trails and transit. MyNW
• King County opens new Lake to Sound trail segment. DJC
• Portion of Green River Trail in Kent closed due to erosion. Kent Reporter
• King County wants your thoughts about local trails – please take their survey. B-Town Blog
• Tell Sound Transit what you think of Kent/Des Moines light rail station design. Kent Reporter
• Traffic lane reduction overnight Feb. 18 in Kent at Willis and Fourth. Kent Reporter

PIERCE

• Pierce County Council adopts Parks, Recreation and Open Space Plan. Tacoma Weekly
• Puyallup City Council Selects New City Manager. Suburban Times
• Orting eliminates local car tab fees in nod to voters who approved Initiative 976. The News Tribune
• Tacoma has built the world's greenest road. Tacoma Weekly

SNOHOMISH

• 3 Democrats vying for open Snohomish County Council seat. Everett Herald
• Snohomish County Secures $10.7 Million in Federal Funding to Replace and Repair Three Bridges. Monroe Monitor
• Red light cameras could soon come to Everett. KIRO7
• Everett facilities' 'to-do' list could cost over $150 million. Everett Herald
• Fatal Hit And Run Crash Shuts Madison And Evergreen. MyEverett
• Carolyn Matthews injured after being hit in Lynnwood. Legal Advocate
• City of Mountlake Terrace to install 28 bike racks at civic facilities with grant funding. MLT News

KITSAP

• Driver who struck bicyclist said she was lighting a cigarette. Kitsap Sun
• Pedestrian improvements coming to Kingston's Washington Boulevard. Kitsap Sun

BEYOND THE REGION

• Construction on Legion Way in downtown Olympia set to begin. Olympian
• Final Phase of Construction on Spruce Railroad Trail to Begin in Early March. Forks Forum
• Final phase of Spruce Railroad Trail revamp set for early March. Sequim Gazette
• Yakama Nation Tribal Council propose 150 miles of trails from White Swan to Union Gap. KIMA TV

CENTRAL PUGET SOUND REGION

• Regional council seeks proposals for $550M transit project funding. PSBJ

STATE LEGISLATURE

• Camera Enforcement
  • Don’t Block the Box Bill Passes State Legislature. Urbanist
  • Legislature OKs bill to let Seattle use traffic cameras to ticket bus-lane, crosswalk violators. Seattle Times
• Safety Stop & 3-Feet
  • With bipartisan House vote, Washington on verge of joining Idaho and Oregon by allowing people biking to treat stop signs as yield signs. SBB
  • Washington Senate gives go-ahead to the 'Idaho stop'. Daily World
  • Hey drivers, new law requires 3 feet to pass bicyclists, walkers. Everett Herald
  • Washington's new safe passing law for bikes. Redmond Reporter
• Transportation Funding
  • Opinion: Washington's car-dependent transportation system has failed us. Crosscut
  • Washington state lawmakers pitch transportation budgets, warn big effects of car-tab cut are still to come. Seattle Times
  • Senator Hobbs Showcases Big Transportation Proposal and It’s Still Highway Focused. Urbanist
• Car Tabs
  • Lawsuit over ST3, car tabs gets new life despite high court defeat. MyNW
  • With $30 car tabs in limbo, WA seeks transportation budget fix. Crosscut
  • O'Ban tries to resurrect bill that would codify voter-approved I-976. Suburban Times
  • State Supreme Court: Sound Transit’s motor vehicle excise tax (MVET) is constitutional. NPI
  • Keep on paying: Washington state Supreme Court sides with Sound Transit in car-tab case. Seattle Times
  • Judge rejects arguments against Initiative 976, but car-tab tax cut remains on hold. Seattle Times
  • Lawsuit against I‑976 to continue as judge rejects most claims of unconstitutionality. NPI
  • Bill would lower car tabs for Pierce taxpayers, but Sound Transit warns of delays. Olympian
• More
  • Will Washington Become One of the First States to Require Climate Action through Urban Planning? Urbanist
  • Update from Olympia (2/20). WA Bikes
  • Washington Democrats Are Damn Right to Remove Congestion Relief from Transportation Goals. Stranger
  • Rantz: Democrats admit they want you stuck in Washington traffic. MyNW
  • Announcing our keynotes for the Washington, Bike, Walk, and Roll Summit. Cascade
  • Washington is poised to get its own scenic bikeways program. WA Bikes

NATIONAL

• BUILDing Complete Streets. T4A
• How Media Help Build Car Culture. Streetsblog
• It's Time for Some Cheap and Boring Transportation Solutions. CityLab
• The Congestion Con: You’ve been played. T4A
• Memo from Seattle: Burying Crumbling Urban Highways Isn’t the Answer. Streetsblog
• The NTSB recommends safety standards for AVs. But Congress isn’t listening. T4A
• Video: Where Did The Rules Of The Road Come From? Urbanist
• The Secret Villains Behind Traffic Violence: Auto Lenders. Streetsblog
• What 4 Years of Trump’s Transportation Budgets Add Up to. CityLab
• “This budget is disappointing but not surprising”: T4America statement on President Trump’s 2021 budget request. T4A

RESEARCH

• Expanding highways and building more roads actually makes traffic worse. Curbed
• More People Are Biking These Days — So Why Are Kids Riding Less? Huffington Post
• Study Shows Link Between Car Ownership and Decrease in Physical Activity. Planetizen
• Repeat After Me: Bike Lanes Don’t Cause Traffic. Streetsblog

Sport, Racing, + MTB

Races & Events

• Mar. 14, 9-4p, Tour De Dung Race #1 (Sequim)
• Mar. 15, 8:30-4p, Dirty Circles (Longview)
• Mar. 15, 9a-1p, BuDu Westside MTB at Henry's Ridge Trails
• Mar. 16, 6-7:30p, Singletrack Cycles' MTB at Grand Ridge
• Mar. 17, 6:30-7:30p, Singletrack Cycles' Mobility, Recovery and Preparation for a day in the woods
• Mar. 21, 9-4p, Tour De Dung Race #2 (Sequim)

Articles

• Eight month closure coming to route off Sammamish Plateau. MyNW
• Next Generation: I love trail building, and I want others my age to love it too. Evergreen MTB
• Disallowed: What can Washington riders learn from recent trail closures in Vermont? Evergreen MTB
• 'McDreamy' to be honorary captain of US Olympic cycling team. Seattle PI
• My PBP Bike: The Frame. Rene Herse
• Sturdy Dirty Enduro Announces Details for 2020 Event. PinkBike
• Mossyrock 200K Pre-Ride Report. Seattle Rando

Jobs

Mechanical, Maintenance, Retail, and Bikeshare

Bike Mechanic, Aaron's Bicycle Repair
Bike Mechanic, G&O Family Cyclery
Operations Assistant, Rene Herse
Seasonal Bike Shop Mechanic, Bike Works
Seasonal Bike Shop Sales & Retail Assistant, Bike Works
Mechanics & Retail Staff, Gregg’s Cycles
Bikes & Fitness Retail Sales Associate, Dick's in Bellevue

Rad Power Bikes
Customer Experience Supervisor,
Customer Experience Specialist
Paid Social & Display Marketing Manager
Influencers & Affiliates Marketing Manager
Product Support Specialist,

Education, Training, and Commute Services

Sounders FC Bike Valet, Bike Works
Summer Camp Head Counselor, Cascade
Summer Camp Counselor
Bicycle Education Leads, Cascade

Policy, Planning, and Engineering

Senior Transportation Planner, SDOT (3/10)
City of Seattle Employee Commute Options Program Manager, SDOT (3/10)
Urban Trails & Bicycle Plan Program Planner, SDOT (3/17)
Vision Zero Coordinator, SDOT (3/17)
Community and Network Planning Manager, WSDOT (3/11)
Senior Policy Analyst, Wash. Transpo. Commission (3/13)
Transportation Planner or Engineer, Fehr & Peers
Senior Transportation Project Manager, HDR
Senior Associate Engineer I, Nelson/Nygaard
Junior Transportation Planner, Nelson/Nygaard
Transportation Engineer III, Kent

Communications, Development, and Management

Administrative Assistant, Washington Student Cycling League

Volunteer

Bike Mechanic & Safety, 2020 Snohomish Ride to Defeat ALS
Volunteer: Event Photographer, 2020 Snohomish Ride to Defeat ALS