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Meet Spokane’s Newest Complete Street: Martin Luther King, Jr. Way
Not that I cheated and rode on the street before it was really, really complete or anything…. On the newly opened bike lane on Martin Luther King, Jr. Way. Love me some new asphalt! The location also...
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Take Action! Congress Could Cut Bike/Pedestrian Funding
In the other Washington they’re deciding whether or not we will have a funding source for Safe Routes to School, bike lanes, pedestrian safety, and other critical elements of our transportation...
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How to Be a Good Guy/Gal on the Street
This post that you should share with all your friends via email, Facebook, Twitter, and personal conversation in (gasp!) real life was inspired by several influences. I’m modeling very directly on the...
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Who Really Pays for Streets? We All Do.
What I supply to the street system even if I never drive a car: plenty of funding. If I had a dollar for every time I either hear or read that “people on bikes need to pay for streets” I could put in...
View ArticleWhen I Get Older: Why I Believe in a Multimodal System and Complete Streets
I’ve been dealing for over a decade with issues created as my parents aged, including transportation problems. My mother, who’s 90, has vascular dementia that has worsened over the past 12 years and my...
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We Engineered Ourselves into this Mess. Now We Need to Engineer our Way out...
There’s a problem in our debates about how streets are funded, a problem that lies partly in the assumptions about who pays and who benefits, with a root cause in the effects of design on how people...
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Picture It: Faces of Transportation Photo Contest
When I say “bikes” or “transit” or “walking” the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials may not be the first organization that springs to mind. But each year they sponsor a...
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It’s Still Time to Take Action and Contact Congress to Support Funding for...
In the other Washington they’re deciding whether or not we will have a funding source for Safe Routes to School, bike lanes, pedestrian safety, and other critical elements of our transportation...
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Looking Back, Looking Ahead
An article in the New York Times on the psychology of change got me thinking about how the belief that we won’t change might set up the belief that we can’t change and how that affects our...
View Article#30DaysofBiking: Halfway Mark Plus One
30 Days of Biking is going swimmingly this year — or is that a mixed metaphor of sorts? I’ve been on my bike every day so far and putting in lots of miles. I traveled for several days but it was for...
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Personal Privilege and Biking: It Takes More than a Bike Lane to Start Riding...
A 2012 version of this post appeared on this blog. I updated it in 2014 for the Washington Bikes blog. This is yet another light update with some “as of 2016” notes. The way I used to tell the story of...
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Biking Is the Spice of Life
I have missed many things while driving for transportation thanks to a broken elbow (with recovery complicated by a frozen shoulder). To name just a few: Exercise (hello, +10 pounds) Sense of...
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Someone’s Sweetheart
The kind of text you DO NOT want to get from your sweetheart: “Car turned left in front. Hit car. Bike effed up. Phys. OK. Going to work.” — Barb Chamberlain (@barbchamberlain) April 8, 2017 This text...
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A Bit of a Rant on Data
I’m a wee bit active on Twitter, where I find many resources, experts I can quickly question on a fine point of transportation policy or design, and inspiration. By now we all recognize the dark side...
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Data Rant Continued: What a Tangled Web
I like a good infographic as much as the next person. They’re eye-catching, they get passed around a lot, they’re more readable than dense academic papers full of footnotes (sorry, academics). So when...
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Slice and Dice Data Rant: Who’s Really Number One?
If you haven’t read A Bit of a Rant on Data and Data Rant Continued, they’ll provide additional context for this. You wouldn’t think a place would vie for the title “Most Dangerous Intersection in the...
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Event Planning 101: It’s Transportation + Accessibility Information, Not...
We showcase our assumptions, biases, and default settings every day with the words we choose and the choices we present to others. Sometimes we can’t see it when we’re looking straight at it. Here, for...
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Model Modal Manners: Move Like You’re in a Grocery Store
I’ve been developing this theory for a while now. The longer I ponder it the more I think it makes sense. Stay with me while I work through this line of reasoning: We’d dramatically improve...
View ArticleTransportation Reading Round-up March 4, 2019
In my work at Washington State Department of Transportation, where I’m Director of the Active Transportation Division, I put out an e-newsletter 2-3 times a month. If you subscribe (everyone welcome!)...
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A Multimodal Multi-Bike Day: How Bikeshare Comes in Handy for a Bike Owner
I was going to be in a long all-day workshop, from 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. at the Seattle Center. The organizers had done exactly what I love to see in an event invitation, which is to say they provided...
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