Category: Meetings

May 2 Advocacy Training / Campaign Planning Workshop

Photo of WSBC members looking at route maps at an SDOT open house for neighborhood greenway projects.

Are you interested in making West Seattle a safer place to walk or ride a bike but don’t know where to start? Tuesday evening is your chance to learn how to build community support, work with agencies and elected officials, and make your neighborhood a better place to live.

West Seattle Bike Connections has invited Clara Cantor, Community Organizer with Seattle Neighborhood Greenways, to teach methods for planning your project, finding allies and handling opposition. Our discussion will highlight WSBC’s top priority (an east-west route through southern West Seattle) but what you learn will make you a better advocate for any project you want to see in your neighborhood.

Join us on Tuesday, May 2 at 6:30pm to 8:30 pm

At Neighborhood House: 6400 Sylvan Way SW

Entrance and bike parking are at the northwest corner of the building.

This is our regular monthly meeting time, dedicated this month to this workshop. We welcome and embrace the diversity of experiences and knowledge of everyone in our city, particularly with regard to race, ethnicity, culture, socio-economic background, gender, sexual orientation, age, and physical ability. We invite you to join us!

Large group of cyclists gathered at Spokane Street Bridge for memorial for RobbGroup photo of people waiting to testify to City Council for safety improvements on West Marginal Way SW at Duwamish Longhouse & Cultural CeneterWSBC folks meeting with SDOT traffic engineer and Tony Fragada from Alki Community Council at Harbor Ave/ SW Spokane intersection. WSBC, SDOT and Port of Seattle reps meeting on West Marginal Way SW to discuss potential bike lane. Claudia Mason speaking to bike riders gathered for memorial for Robb Mason at Spokane St Bridge.

Remember Robb Mason. Make a statement

Remember Robb Mason.
Make a statement about safe bike riding and dangerous car driving.
This Friday, July 29, 7 PM
Critical Mass memorial ride from Westlake Center to east end of Spokane St Bridge.
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Photo of Robb Mason from his friend Judi and Seattle Bike Blog

WSBC Meeting March 3

Taylor Knowles, SDOT’s Outreach person for the East Marginal Way Corridor Project, will present the 60% design for discussion.  Please join us!

Tuesday, March 3
6:30 to 8:00 pm
Neighborhood House
6400 Sylvan Way SW  (at SW Morgan, in High Point)

We are really excited to see progress on this catalyst project. It is West Seattle’s main bike route to downtown, and the Port of Seattle’s most important “last mile” freight route. This design milestone is a great opportunity for input to dial in the design so it will really work for bike riders and truck drivers.

We and our allies at Northwest Seaport, BNSF, and SODO industries all want a safe route with clear and robust separation of vehicle and bike traffic. The result should be bike riding that is predicable for truck drivers and comfortable for bike riders of all abilities.

If you can’t make the meeting, here’s a link to the project website. One more click takes you to a survey for online input.

Semi-truck tractor with a bike in a rack on the front of the truck.
Some people commute by bike on East Marginal Way to work driving a truck.

April 3 WSBC meeting at Neighborhood House

New location for our monthly meeting:
6:30 pm at Neighborhood House in High Point.
6400 Sylvan Way SW
more room, and more central.

You are invited to our monthly meeting. We’ll be working on making it safer and more enjoyable to bike and walk in West Seattle, and to surrounding neighborhoods and downtown. Come join us to plan activities and advocate for a sustainable, healthy transportation.

Delridge Corridor and Fauntleroy Boulevard Project will be top agenda items this month.

WSBC December 6 meeting at Talerico’s

Please join us to talk about using bikes to get around West Seattle, and celebrate our Ride in the Rain Challenge this month at Talerico’s Pizzeria. Open to all.

6:30 to 8:00 Tuesday, December 6

4718 California Ave SW in the Junction, near SW Alaska St.

Our team of eight was #34 of 454 teams!  Let’s raise a glass and have some pizza and good conversation.

Other topics:  Greenway routes in the 35th Ave SW corridor, and Fauntleroy Boulevard Project resumes design work.

 

Tues Nov 1 WSBC Monthly Meeting

You are invited to join this open meeting.

6:30 to 8:00 pm at HomeStreet Bank, 42nd Ave SW and SW Alaska Street

Let’s work together to improve conditions and enjoy bike riding in West Seattle. Proposed greenway routes along the central spines of WS are on the agenda, along with World Day of Remembrance, Fauntleroy,…
Screen Shot 2016-10-30 at 9.52.26 AMPrint: “The Politicians” by Jose Guadelupe Posada in 1890, Mexico.

Let’s keep our saints alive and riding este’ dia de los Muertos and election season.

WSBC Meeting – Tuesday Dec 1

6:30 to 8:00 pm
HomeStreet Bank at WS Junction
41st Ave SW & SW Alaska St
Please come if you can, to plan our next projects and events.
At our last meeting, these rose to the top for 2016. We can do these things only to the extent that we have active participation:
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  • Safe Routes to Schools, and finding ways to get schools engaged in walking and riding to school.
  • Celebration for the work at Chelan 5-way intersection, and monitoring and working for the long term plans there to connect the Alki, WS Bridge and Duwamish trail routes.
  • East Marginal Way S Multi-Modal Corridor planning, to make it a really excellent high-bike-volume corridor to SODO and downtown.
  • Advocacy for more greenway street implementation on the N-S spine of West Seattle from Admiral to Westwood, parallel to California and 35th Avenues, for destinations in West Seattle and for low-stress through routes. [this with Seattle Neighborhood Greenways]
  • Continue events for kids: bike rodeos, mini STP, family rides.
  • Duwamish Trail improvements and completion of missing links.
  • Neighborhood Parks & Streets Fund grants for spot improvements.
  • Engage politically with our new Councilmember whoever she may be; SDOT; neighborhood associations and district councils.
  • Social rides!
We also can really use a dedicated webmaster/social media person, and have other roles to fill. Many things do not require attending evening meetings, so email if you are inspired.
westseattlebikeconnections@gmail.com

WSBC Meeting Monday November 9

November meeting date changed to
MONDAY, 11/9
6:30 to 8:00 pm
HomeStreet Bank
41st Ave SW & SW Alaska St

We decided to postpone due to Election Day, and meet next Monday instead.  This will be a special meeting to plan our next steps as an organization – what will we concentrate on in 2016? Who can fill what roles or take on what projects? Did the Move Seattle levy pass, or will SDOT be operating on a shoestring?  Do we need more organization, or less? You are invited!

If you cannot attend, but have ideas, reply here or email us at westseattlebikeconnections@gmail.com

 

WSBC Meeting Tuesday 10/6

Please come join us

Tuesday, October 6, 6:00 to 8:00 pm

HomeStreet Bank, 41st Ave SW & SW Alaska St

Open meeting – please come and celebrate our third anniversary, plan and discuss Move Seattle levy, SDOT projects in West Seattle, truck/bike safety action, Pronto expansion, and to wish Theresa and Jeff well as they move south.

WSBC meeting – Tuesday 9/1

You are invited! Please come if you can.

We will have a guest from the Let’s Move Seattle levy campaign, and will have reports and discussion of road and trail projects, social rides, and more.

6:30 to 8:00 pm at HomeStreet Bank, 41st Ave SW and SW Alaska St.