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That's fabulous! Thanks for sharing.
Reminds me of Australian research several years ago about the dehumanization of people on bikes as "cockroaches" lens.monash.edu/dangerous-de.... From my grad class on political psychology, dehumanizing language=one of the precursors to genocide. #WordsMatter
What I do when I'm not doing transpo policy? Improv, baby! Next show May 6 at Wild Child, family-friendly venue in downtown Olympia. Come laugh at/with my friends and me! www.improvoly.com/public-calen... #ImprovOly #OlyWA #ImprovComedy #WhoseLine
1st WE-bike rebate selections are MONDAY APRIL 13 so if you, your friends or family are thinking of applying the sooner you submit your pre-application the more selection rounds you will be entered into. Monthly drawings! #WSDOTActive #EBikes #BicyclesChangeLives #WABikes #BikeWA #Bikes4Climate
Love seeing mentions of #WSDOTActive @cascade.org Let's Go program in the wild! 2025 legislative report has stats pg. 22 in wsdot.wa.gov/sites/defaul.... This year's report (December) will have even bigger numbers=more kids riding!
From way up here the earth looks very small,
They shouldn’t fight at all
Down there upon that little sphere.
Their time is short, a life is just a day,
You think they’d find a way.
--Malvina Reynolds & Pete Seeger, "From Way Up Here"
youtu.be/wJcq8oDZU9A?...
Love seeing mentions of #WSDOTActive @cascade.org Let's Go program in the wild! 2025 legislative report has stats pg. 22 in wsdot.wa.gov/sites/defaul.... This year's report (December) will have even bigger numbers.
#BicyclesChangeLives #KidsBike #KidsDeserveIt #SafeRoutesNow #BikeEverywhere
Fun quiz from @bikeleague.org. I fit into multiple types; luckily you can take it more than once.
test-test-o.my.canva.site/what-kind-of...
Ref to zompoc in text at the end takes me back to my blog post bikestylelife.com/2018/10/28/1.... #BicyclesChangeLives #BikeEverywhere #BikeLife
Graphic in various shades of green has a turquoise ebike in the middle of the outline of Washington state, with gears of various sizes and shades of green around the outside the state. Text at top: Apply for e-bike rebates! Text below the state: Applications open March 30. Logo bottom left, WSDOT Active Transportation Division. Logo bottom right, Washington Climate Commitment Act.
IT’S BACK! Applications are NOW OPEN for e-bike rebates through WE-Bike, Washington’s statewide e-bike rebate program. ebikerebate.wsdot-sites.com
Apply any time 3/30/26-3/29/27. Monthly drawings.
#WSDOTActive #BicyclesChangeLives #EBikes #BikeLove #BikeEverywhere #Bicycles #Cycling #BikeShops
Chaucer: "Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote,
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licóur
Of which vertú engendred is the flour"
T.S. Eliot: "April is the cruelest month"
Poetry nerds: FIGHTT!!!!!!
“We could never do THAT is OUR city!” Leadership doesn’t make excuses.
“Speed wasn’t a factor.” Speed is ALWAYS a factor.
“If we don’t build housing to solve homelessness, we don’t really want to solve homelessness.”
Not density OR trees, density AND trees.” Better cities are climate action. All posters are ads by the Urban Truth Collective
EXPLORE & SHARE OUR POSTERS! As we get closer to releasing our first BIG campaign, we’ll keep releasing our “quick hit” posters, and we hope you’ll help us make them viral. Repost/quote-post our posts sharing them, or include them in your OWN posts and ping us! www.urbantruthcollective.com/content
"The Geography of Memory: A National Oral History Project on Spatial Trauma" from Thrivance Group static1.squarespace.com/static/5a85d...
"The right to safe, free, and joyful movement in the world": Dr. Destiny Thomas at the Bike Walk Roll Summit gives us a vision of what designing for the future we want (conference theme) must include, and a history lesson on trauma embedded in pavement.
The CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission) did a study from 2017-2023. They found 193 fatalities and 87,400 injuries related to ebikes.
In the same period, there were roughly 280,000 traffic fatalities and 15 million injuries on our roads.
But yeah, let's make more laws about bicycles. 1/
Graphic in various shades of green has a turquoise ebike in the middle of the outline of Washington state, with gears of various sizes and shades of green around the outside the state. Text at top: Apply for e-bike rebates! Text below the state: Applications open March 30. Logo bottom left, WSDOT Active Transportation Division. Logo bottom right, Washington Climate Commitment Act.
IT’S BACK! Applications are NOW OPEN for e-bike rebates through WE-Bike, Washington’s statewide e-bike rebate program. ebikerebate.wsdot-sites.com
Apply any time 3/30/26-3/29/27. Monthly drawings.
#WSDOTActive #BicyclesChangeLives #EBikes #BikeLove #BikeEverywhere #Bicycles #Cycling #BikeShops
As a long-time (now former) Spokane resident, I have to vote for the Spokane River Centennial Trail in the USA Today contest. Love this trail!
10best.usatoday.com/awards/spoka...
#trails #RailTrails #BikeSPO
I love Amtrak Cascades! Just edited 30 pages of a document and drank my good coffee from home while heading to Seattle for the Safe Mobility Conference. I have my folding bike Tessa in the baggage car. Train+bike travel is the best! #trains #BicyclesChangeLives
The e-book edition of LIFE AFTER CARS is available for just $1.99 on @bookshop.org for a limited time!
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As a long-time (now former) Spokane resident, I have to vote for the Spokane River Centennial Trail in the USA Today contest. Love this trail!
10best.usatoday.com/awards/spoka...
#trails #RailTrails #BikeSPO
Hoping to reach journalists/editors:
- When you're writing about legislation, whether proposed or enacted, include a link to official info page on the bill.
- When you're writing about research, include a link to the study.
Why? I'll read your work before a piece by someone who doesn't do this.
Additional note: Our whole team teleworks, with quarterly in-person all-staff meetings. We have one cluster in Olympia, another in Seattle, so it's also possible to see people in person at other times. 😆 You can live anywhere in the state and be on the team.
#WSDOTActive
Want to work with the awesome team at WSDOT Active Transportation Division? Now's your chance! Hiring for a nonpermanent position focused on advancing pedestrian access statewide. Apply by Wednesday, March 11. (Yes, tight turnaround)
www.governmentjobs.com/careers/wash... #WSDOTActive #Accessibility
Great analysis but it's 13 years old. If you have links to more recent analysis on these lines it would be great to share those too.
You may ask yourself, "Where does that highway go to?"
And you may ask yourself, "Am I right, am I wrong?"
And you may say to yourself, "My God, what have I done?"
--Talking Heads (David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth) + Brian Eno
youtu.be/5IsSpAOD6K8?...
Really love this series of old transportation study covers @rmartincole.bsky.social shares in this thread. "The carless" have been with us forever--and yet we still haven't solved the problems of getting around without a vehicle. Maybe it's time we did that.
15 seconds of peace.
The waterfall is courtesy of UPS, in Seattle's Pioneer Square.
