Bicycle Alliance’s 2013 legislative goals include safe-passing, safe...
The 2013 state legislative season is starting to pick up steam, with lawmakers figuring out their alliances and picking committee heads. Meanwhile, advocacy groups of all kinds are putting out their...
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Sign up for Transportation Advocacy Day in Olympia February 12
The road to increasing safe and inviting cycling for every person in Washington State goes through Olympia. That’s why you should join an ever-growing crew of advocates and regular old citizens for...
View ArticleNeighborhood Safe Streets Bill starts journey through State Legislature
The Neighborhood Safe Streets Bill (AKA the Safe Neighborhood Speeds Bill and the 20′s Plenty Bill) has started its journey through the state legislature as HB 1045. The bill would give municipalities...
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Bill would officially allow drivers to cross double yellow to pass someone on...
Photo from BikeWA A bill starting its journey through the state legislature would officially legalize something that nearly all careful and courteous drivers already do: cross a double yellow line in...
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Neighborhood Safe Streets Bill passes House, going strong in Senate
The Bicycle Alliance’s Barb Chamberlain testifies in favor of the bill in January The Neighborhood Safe Streets Bill (HB 1045) passed the State House today 86-10. With its Senate companion bill (SB...
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Why a statewide bike tax makes no sense
UPDATE: For more, see our post “The bike tax is just a distraction: The real problem is the billions on new highways” State Democrats unveiled a $10 billion revenue package for transportation Wednesday...
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The bike tax is just a distraction: The real problem is the billions on new...
When the state Senate Democrats unveiled a transportation package last week, folks were shocked to see a “symbolic” bike tax of up to 5 percent on bike sales in the state. And we all fell for it,...
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State lawmaker defends bike tax, says bicycling is not good for the environment
Ed Orcutt Representative Ed Orcutt (R – Kalama) does not think bicycling is environmentally friendly because the activity causes cyclists to have “an increased heart rate and respiration.” This is...
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Neighborhood Safe Streets Bill one step closer + Transportation funding up in...
The bill had broad support in the Senate Transportation Committee The humble Neighborhood Safe Streets Bill (SHB 1045) passed out of the Senate Transportation Committee Tuesday with unanimous support....
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For sixth year in a row, Washington named most bike-friendly state in the US
Washington is, once again, the most bike-friendly state in the Union. That’s according to the League of American Bicyclists, which creates annual report cards for every state in the US, taking into...
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Orcutt: No need to increase transpo investment because ’11 of the 12 sections...
Ed Orcutt, the ranking Republican on the Washington House Transportation Committee, has sent another email with questionable conclusions about transportation policy. You may remember the representative...
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Blake Trask: End days in Olympia – What’s at stake for biking and walking? A...
Editor’s Note: Blake has been in Olympia all session working with the legislature to make the state safer and more accessible for people on bikes. In this guest post, he makes the case for why urgent...
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Senate transportation package ignores people who walk, bike or take transit
For many, last week’s transportation package out of the state House was a bitter pill. On one hand, the state desperately needs to pass a funding bill to repair our crumbling infrastructure, maintain...
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State House passes transpo bill with lots of bike/walk funding, highway spending
The Washington State House of Representatives today passed a transportation bill that would save King County Metro operations and invest about $323 million in biking and walking projects, road safety...
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WA transpo package failure kills CRC highway project and bike/walk funding,...
Headline and image at Bike Portland Though the State House of Representatives was able to pass a $10 billion transportation package late last week, the Senate decided to adjourn without considering the...
View ArticleBikeWA: Stella and Caron search for meaning and solutions after witnessing a...
Caron Lemay and her daughter Stella bike to school in Kirkland together regularly. But they are both haunted by what they saw, heard and felt one day on the way to school, when a person driving failed...
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State transportation proposal is exact opposite of what people want
Image from Sightline (click for story) The Senate Majority Caucus Coalition has proposed a transportation package that in no way resembles the desires of Washington residents. If anything, it is the...
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