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As discussed elsewhere, we're doing the Fremont Ride again next Tuesday, to coincide with the start of the City Council's ratification of the Bike Master Plan. Meet at 4:30 at Gasworks, ride 5-6. End in plenty of time for the Tuesday Ride.
After lots of back-and-forth, we've decided on a costume theme: Look normal! Suits, ties, jackets, business casual, whatever. Just not spandex and lycra (or conversely) ratty jeans and messenger bags. Not that we'll turn you away if you wear this stuff, just try to make it hard for the TV crews to focus on the 'funny bikers' in lieu of our actual message.
Speaking of our actual message, those who volunteered to do flyer construction can find some raw materials at http://www.seattlelikesbikes.org/resources/ . If anyone has originals of the PDFs from the first ride in DOC or similar format, we'd appreciate them, as PDFs aren't the easiest thing to work with.
Speaking more of our actual message: Since our first Ride for Fremont on August 1, the City has failed to open the Burke-Gilman Trail, and has created a bike lane, sharrow, 4-lane and 3-lane mishmash on Stone Way from N 34th to N 50th that is confusing and unsafe. Yet the Mayor and City Council are ratifying this mess in the official Bike Master Plan. We will keep riding until they get it right.
[cue Hey, Hey, Ho Ho chant]
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Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:57 pm
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I can't wait until Friday when we can do some Real activism. ;)
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Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:13 pm
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After people have critiqued my deathless prose, we can move these to the SLB website. But as long as I didn't screw up the date/time/place, feel free to commence flyering. Any volunteers?
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Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:28 pm
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Two things:
Paragraph 2: should say: "cause confusion and create unsafe conditions ..."
URL at the bottom is missing an 's' in "likes".
Otherwise, it's spectacular!
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gsbarnes
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:52 pm
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Raindog wrote:
Two things:
Paragraph 2: should say: "cause confusion and create unsafe conditions ..."
URL at the bottom is missing an 's' in "likes".
Otherwise, it's spectacular!
Fixed. Thanks!
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DJStroky
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:13 am
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If someone can point me to a cheap/free printing resource, I can put up page size flyers all around UW since I'm going to school here now.
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Happy Stick Person
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:18 am
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DJStroky wrote:
If someone can point me to a cheap/free printing resource, I can put up page size flyers all around UW since I'm going to school here now.
//B109-1535-a.corp.redmond.microsoft.com
henry
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:33 am
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Happy Stick Person wrote:
DJStroky wrote:
If someone can point me to a cheap/free printing resource, I can put up page size flyers all around UW since I'm going to school here now.
//B109-1535-a.corp.redmond.microsoft.com
LOL, yeah Evan, let the corporate sponsors do the printing.
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henry wrote:
Happy Stick Person wrote:
DJStroky wrote:
If someone can point me to a cheap/free printing resource, I can put up page size flyers all around UW since I'm going to school here now.
//B109-1535-a.corp.redmond.microsoft.com
LOL, yeah Evan, let the corporate sponsors do the printing.
that would be me
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Raindog
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 1:50 pm
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Should someone update the SLB website with info on this ride? Just sayin'.
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n_claw
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 1:57 pm
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Raindog wrote:
Should someone update the SLB website with info on this ride? Just sayin'.
updated. the 'next ride' link was the only thing not updated.
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Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 2:08 pm
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Raindog wrote:
Should someone update the SLB website with info on this ride? Just sayin'.
or maybe just start a forum up on that site altogether?
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Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:37 pm
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Flyers are now up and ready for printing, posting and distributing. Put up a bunch, to make up for the fact that some will get washed away in the coming storm.
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gsbarnes
Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 11:55 am
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Route map, which should look eerily familiar. Unfortunately, Henry never got me the old, good route map, so I had to take a preliminary map and do some amateurish editing in the upper right corner. If someone's bored and wants to make it look better, be my guest.
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henry
Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 12:00 pm
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gsbarnes wrote:
whine whine whine
you never asked me for any map.
For the record, i don't read any of the SLB emails sent to the group. if you need something specific email me directly.
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is this thing going down?
i'll be there.
gsbarnes
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:21 am
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the dreaded ben wrote:
is this thing going down?
i'll be there.
It's got a sticky, it must occur.
Plus I somehow distributed 800 flyers without resorting to the trash or recycling, so it better be going down, or I'm gonna hurt somebody.
I however, will be watching 4- and 5-year olds until 5pm, so I won't be there. At least, not at the beginning.
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TrikerTrev
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:43 am
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if it's going to be as rainy as the models indicate, we're in for a soggy assed protest, and that would really hurt our turnout.
aside from that, flyers handed out @ CM, Gregs, Perfect Wheels and Revolution.
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Foo
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:53 am
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Free Range and Wright Brothers flyered Saturday.
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 12:09 pm
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TrikerTrev wrote:
if it's going to be as rainy as the models indicate, we're in for a soggy assed protest, and that would really hurt our turnout.
...though any turnout (even just two dozen cyclists in a pack) in a downpour makes for more sensational news than a dry weather ride. It says that we commute by bike, rain or shine, and we are serious about holding the Mayor accountable.
gsbarnes
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:51 pm
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TrikerTrev wrote:
if it's going to be as rainy as the models indicate, we're in for a soggy assed protest, and that would really hurt our turnout.
aside from that, flyers handed out @ CM, Gregs, Perfect Wheels and Revolution.
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As is usual this time of year, the bulk of rain will be overnight. The actual afternoon forecast at this point is for scattered showers, with a possible thunderstorm.
Anyone who's lived here for a few months should know by now that the possibility of thunderstorms, like snow, is always pretty low, even when it's forecast.
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 2:21 pm
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And anyone who has lived here a while knows that when it does T-storm, it does so at exactly the least opportune moment.
koos42
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 3:21 pm
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thunder storms hardly ever happen. They're more of a spring/summer thing anyway.
gsbarnes
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 3:56 pm
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koos42 wrote:
thunder storms hardly ever happen. They're more of a spring/summer thing anyway.
This time of year a hailstorm is more likely, but that's usually at the beginning of a storm, not afterwards. I could have sworn I rode through one Saturday afternoon, just before it started pouring at around 5:30.
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 5:57 pm
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Kevin, Foo, and myself worked the corner (yeah, I said it) of 4th & Nickerson & Westlake & Dexter from 4:30 - just after 6. People were receptive (fist punches in the air, thumbs up, thank yous, general enthusiasm) and the magic words to get people fired up are "stone way bike lane." Everyone wants the lane. Alot of riders were already familiar with the ride - good news.
We stapled the posters to the nearest sign post to remind people ...
It was cool seeing Koos on the way home on the Burke :)
And JESUS the number of cyclists that blow that red light to get across the bridge is amazing.
No link, but as I was waking up this morning, I was pleased to hear a blurb on KPLU about the ride. Mentioned stone way and the trail both. Can't remember details, since I was still half asleep.
Have a great ride everyone, I'll be stuck late at work today.
snyd3282
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:03 am
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Bicyclists plan protest Tuesday
Bike lane preferred over 'sharrows'
By CASEY MCNERTHNEY
P-I REPORTER
Todd Jensen, who makes a daily bike commute from Wallingford to Queen Anne, said he's used to cars flying by at 30 mph, sometimes only a foot away.
The worst part, he said, is a 16-block stretch of Stone Way North, where there are multiple lane configurations and on some blocks a planned bike lane was nixed in place of white symbols meant to help cars share a lane with cyclists.
"The city might as well have not done anything," he said. "I've heard of a lot of people getting hit, and I've had a lot of close calls."
Tuesday from 5 to 6 p.m., organizers for Seattle Likes Bikes are calling on bicyclists to protest the configuration and the markings -- called sharrows -- that were installed in place of a bike lane. They're also upset a section of the Burke-Gilman Trail under the Fremont Bridge was not opened in August, as originally promised.
"They're really confusing for both motorists and cars," Seattle Likes Bikes organizer Laura Rabuck said of the bike-and-chevron images painted in the right side of traffic lanes. "We don't want the mayor or City Council to think we're OK with the sharrows."
The City Council is expected to vote this month on the Bicycle Master Plan -- a 10-year, $240 million effort aimed to improve Seattle's bike network.
Seattle Likes Bikes organizer Chris Nygaard said Tuesday's protest, in which participants are encouraged to follow traffic laws, will show that the sharrows on Stone Way North "will actually impede traffic more than it would have prior."
About 20 streets are expected to be branded with sharrows by the year's end as part of the plan. The marks, made from a synthetic thermal material, have already been installed on 19th Avenue East and Beach Drive Southwest.
"If they weren't safe, we wouldn't put them in," Department of Transportation spokesman Gregg Hirakawa said, adding they don't alter rules of the road.
And there is still a possibility for a bike lane in the area of Stone Way North. Significant development is expected there, and the city determined sharrows would be the safest way to accommodate cyclists, Hirakawa said.
The city Department of Transportation is also trying to arrange a temporary route around part of the Burke-Gilman Trail that has been closed since May 2006 for bridge reconstruction, Hirakawa said. The temporary trail would close periodically to allow equipment travel as work continues on the Fremont bridge through next year, he said.
DOUG.
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:11 am
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Nice work everyone. I wish I could've helped more in the organizing stage, but I'll be there today with this sign in tow. Feel free to use it. I have a link HERE. And a link to a couple of oldies-but-goodies HERE.
laura
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:13 am
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DOUG. wrote:
Nice work everyone. I wish I could've helped more in the organizing stage, but I'll be there today with this sign in tow. Feel free to use it.
Welcome back. Nice to see you on the forum again. :)
TrikerTrev
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:19 am
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""If they weren't safe, we wouldn't put them in," Department of Transportation spokesman Gregg Hirakawa said, adding they don't alter rules of the road. "
comments like this make me want to slam my head in a door...repeatedly.
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n_claw
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:30 am
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Okay kids, who wants to do an interview with KUOW on-air at 1:45pm?
I feel grossly inarticulate, and I would really rather NOT be the one to do it.
If you feel up to it, email me or PM me with your email address and I'll send you the email with info.
response needed ASAP.
nova.clawson-at-gmail-dot-com
SeditiousCanary
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:44 am
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n_claw wrote:
Okay kids, who wants to do an interview with KUOW on-air at 1:45pm?
I feel grossly inarticulate, and I would really rather NOT be the one to do it.
If you feel up to it, email me or PM me with your email address and I'll send you the email with info.
response needed ASAP.
nova.clawson-at-gmail-dot-com
bad time for me...i'll be gearing up to ride in this shit.
looks like a wonderful day for a bike ride! (if you're a fish)
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