Come ride with us this Saturday! Bring the family! 9:30 am at Jack Block Park, at the first set of restrooms and parking spaces.
Ride details here Parents please see the information for children riding their own bikes.
A West Seattle Bike Connections / Cascade Bicycle Club ride. If this one is a hit, we’ll try others exploring West Seattle and South Park parks and public art by bike, including the Duwamish Revealed projects happening this summer. 
From our bike rodeo May 30 at KEXP’s Hood-to-Hood Block Party at the Junction. Young riders gained confidence and riding skills, while having fun and earning prizes. It was a Friday school and work day, without advance mention in KEXP’
s announcements, so most of our participants were 2 to 4 years old, on balance bikes provided by West Seattle Cyclery. with a flurry of olde kids after school. SPD bike patrol officers showed everybody how to ride it, and got the grownups into it, too.
Thanks for the invitation and support from Susan Melrose of the West Seattle Junction Association and Brad Loetel at West Seattle Cyclery. Clarrisa Allen and Ed Ewing at Cascade Bicycle Club supplemented our rodeo props and literature, and WSBC volunteers Kathy Dunn, Bob Winship, Jeff Hallman, and Don Brubeck were the bike rider wranglers and crew.
The Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the proposed basketball/hockey arena in SODO has been published. We commented – major impacts to traffic that would affect travel by bike from West Seattle, and use of bikes to get to the Arena were not really considered in the draft EIS. SDOT/DPD responses to our comment letter are attached. Links to the entire FEIS are online at DPD’s website here. 
The comment letters and responses are in Appendix F.
Bike to Work Day is this Friday, May 15. Stop by our Commute Station under the West Seattle Bridge, open 6:00 to 9:00 am.
Bike mechanics from DIY Bikes. Home made cookies, fresh fruit, hot coffee, Cascade swag, other treats, and information about the Chelan 5-way intersections proposals.
If you can be there at 8:15, join a group ride to the BTW Day rally at Union Station.
If you go up Second Ave, you can stop at Washington Bike Law’s commute station at Cherry Street for fun and games.
“From the Netherlands to America–Best Bicycling Ideas”
Support your local bike shop: Ride the M/V Sally Fox to Vashon Island, or the new one coming to the West Seattle Route.
Or, contact these officials to ask for in-cabin bike racks like the old water taxis, or covered on-deck storage that excludes salt spray:
paul.brodeur@kingcounty.gov,
harold.taniguchi@kingcounty.gov,
Dow.Constantine@kingcounty.gov,
joe.mcdermott@kingcounty.gov
Here is what all four bike shops in West Seattle and White Center, and the closest to the water taxi terminal downtown, have to say:
If you are FOR safety on 35th Avenue SW, please sign this PRO-safety petition.
You may have seen a petition circulating to STOP the safety improvements planned for “I-35”. There a several hundred signers who may be deceived by the petition claims that 35th is safe as is, and speed is needed, or actually saves time. It is hard to believe that they would be more willing to risk their neigbors’ lives rather than lose a few seconds of car travel time due to 5 mph lower speed limit; a signal at Graham; a greenway on 34th; pedestrian safety islands; a left turn lane to avoid rear-ending and left-hook car crashes.
If you are FOR Safety, please sign this PRO-safety petition, signed by over 600 concerned neighbors in 2014, and re-opened now.
Please keep the boxes clicked so that Seattle Neighborhood Greenways / West Seattle Greenways can notify you of victories in this project.
Open meeting – you are invited to come plan activities, and discuss everything related to using bikes in West Seattle.
6:30 to 8:00 pm at HomeStreet Bank, 41st Ave SW at SW Alaska St thank you HomeStreet Bank!
Agenda includes
Delridge path work in full swing near WS Bridge. Detour route on 23rd SW to/from SW Andover. Ignore the sign on 23rd at Andover that says “road closed” – it is open for bikes to the trail. Photo by Alex, who posts on WS Blog Flickr group as alextutu1821.
As our city gets denser, and as people order more goods for home delivery, how do we deal with the need for more delivery vehicles in crowded conditions? Some people and companies are going back to using bikes. The lines are getting blurred between what is a bike and what is a truck. It’s not just Jimmie Johns for sandwiches. It’s UPS for holiday packages in Salem, and urgent medical supplies, and gardening companies in Seattle, and fresh fish in Port Townsend.
More in this Seattle Bike Blog story,
and an in depth study of bikes for freight in New York City.
