Bike to Game Day at Safeco
Saturday, May 10 Mariners v. Kansas City at 6:10 PM. Purchase tickets on Friday for a discount.
Quickest, most fun way to get to the stadium from West Seattle and back home. Secure bike parking in the Safeco garage. Can combine with Water Taxi.
Sponsored by Cascade Bicycle Club and Puget Sound Starts Here – discounted tickets and gifts for bike riders
Al J rides this rig to 30 games a season!
Lots of secure bike rack space waiting for fair or foul weather fans
WSBC monthly meeting
The Delridge Greenways let us ride from the Alki Trail to White Center on safe, quiet, beautiful streets. We have more Greenway routes waiting to be built! Seattle Neighborhood Greenways connects groups like ours, coordinating and supporting our efforts for bike routes that work for all ages and abilities, with equity.
Please consider a gift to Seattle Neighborhood Greenways on May 6, Give Big Day
We rode today from Occidental Plaza to the Schooner Exact with Cascade Bicycle Club on a Policy Ride and Bike Happy Hour! And some of us going to DIY Bikes wheel truing workshop.
Thank you to Dongho Chang, Seattle Chief Traffic Engineer for riding with us,
and Brock Howell, Emily Kathrein, Robin Randels, Thomas Goldstein, and Jeff Aken from Cascade for doing this, and to Bob Anderton, David Geoffrion, Bob Winship, Kathy Dunn, Lars Halstrom, and others from WSBC, AJ Verdugo from WS, and Michael Hirschenhorn from Queen Anne and Seattle Neighborhood Greenways for participating. We enjoyed meeting new people from West Seattle and beyond. Don Brubeck
Bike month starts tomorrow! Let’s do it! How about riding with someone who has not tried it before? How about a workplace team in Cascade’s commute challenge, or helping with a bike train to school?
Lots of events including May 1 Policy Ride to Bike Happy Hour at Schooner Exact, May 1 DIY free wheel truing workshop at West Seattle Tool Library, May 6 Bike to Work Breakfast, May 10 Bike to Mariners Game Day, May 7 Bike to School Day, May 16 Bike to Work Day (we’ll have a station at WS Bridge), and May 18 Alki “Summer” Streets (we’ll have a bike rodeo). See calendar
Until the Washington State legislature, King County or Seattle government figure out what to do to provide the bus service we need, some of us can ride bikes to get places and free up seats on the buses that are still running, and free up space on the roads for those who must drive. Bicycle transportation increases roadway bandwidth without increasing roadway width. Kind of like energy conservation by increasing efficiency — getting more out of the existing capacity.
We are here to help that happen, and to make it safe, attractive and convenient for as many people as possible.
Here’s a great north-south route in West Seattle: 21st Ave SW on Puget Ridge and Pigeon Point, connecting us to White Center at the south via Myrtle/16th, and connecting to West Duwamish Trail, Alki Trail and the low level bridge to SODO and downtown at the north, via Andover/22nd. No traffic jams, low traffic, peaceful and easy grades. Croft Place here connects to the 26th Ave SW Greenway.
This Urban Land Institute magazine article talks about what cities are doing to turn auto-only thoroughfares into lively, pedestrian-friendly streets for all users
If you buy stuff on Amazon, they have a great program where they’ll donate 0.5% of eligible purchases to the charity of your choice, if they participate in the Amazon Smile program. And guess what? Our parent organization, Sustainable West Seattle, is listed!
So how does it work?
That’s it! There’s no cost to you or to Sustainable West Seattle to participate.
If you don’t like the idea of Amazon donating to SWS and reaping the tax-deduction benefit, then you can donate directly using the PayPal button we setup on the right-hand side of our website (or use the button below).
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So how does this relate to biking and West Seattle Bike Connections? Sustainable West Seattle is our fiscal sponsor, so any funds we can get to them come back to us so we can help promote our mission! Things like business cards, stickers, or other informational material isn’t free.
Thanks for helping us out!
When Al is not driving kids around West Seattle in a big yellow bus, you might find him riding his bike to a Mariner’s game. About 20 games a season by bike. Why ride? It’s fast, easy, fun and free. Nice bike cage at Safeco Field’s T-Mobile Park’s garage for 150 bikes, right by the staffed booth. Quick getaway after the game. Here’s his ride at the “road opener” celebration this week, and the big glove sculpture all set for cool spring evening games.
Here are the Mariners’ directions on getting to the ballpark by bike, walking, water taxi, …
Please join us at Home Street Bank, 4022 SW Alaska St
Lots on the agenda, with Bike Month coming up; grant applications; projects at schools; Greenways; intersections; bike corrals; Alki Summer Streets and summer events to plan. Open meeting. You are invited.
See the Calendar for map, details
Meeting agenda and notes can be found here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qj4O-vYmK_tZi9g5Mv5yme4bwQK7834afbf4zILBoNU/edit?usp=sharing
