Top Thing to Know & Do

1. June is the new Bike Everywhere Month. Sign-up for the commute challenge.

Lifestyle, Adventure, + Industry

Events

• Sunday, May 31
  • 5:30-8:30p, Tukwila Trek Sunday slow roll
  • 6:30-7:30p, Flying Bike's Virtual Bike Month Celebration
• JUNE IS THE NEW BIKE EVERYWHERE MONTH
• Tuesday, June 2
  • West Seattle Bike Connections meeting
• Wednesday, June 3
  • 8-9a, Cascade's Bike Everywhere Breakfast
  • 5-7:30p, Element Cycle's Wednesday Afternoon Shop Ride

Articles

• Book review: Bike & Trike. Family Ride
• The Urbanist’s Scavenger Hunt #5: Stay Healthy Streets. Urbanist
• Strangers Become Friends When Bicycling. Cascade
• Cancellation of Seattle to Portland Ride Causes Financial Pain for Community Nonprofits: “This Hits Us Hard.” Cascade
• Rave: Reader appreciative of bikers and walkers who keep their distance and wear masks. Seattle Times
• Got more bikes than you really need? Bike Match Seattle will connect you with someone who needs it. SBB
• Rad Power Bikes: Welcome, new West Seattle Blog sponsor. WSB
• Heroes rising and fallen: Teen girl bicycles across India on epic rescue, Armstrong back on TV. Biking Bis
• Pandemic a boon for the bicycle as thousands snap them up. Seattle Times

Policy + Infrastructure

Action

• Take SDOT's survey on guiding principles for West Seattle to Ballard Light Rail.
• SNG: Thank Seattle leaders for the Stay Healthy Streets and ask for more open streets.

Events

• Friday, May 29
  • 9am-5:30pm, UW Pandemic Urbanism Symposium
  • 9-10am, Feet First: Washington's Transportation Budgets & COVID-19
• Tuesday, June 2
  • West Seattle Bike Connections meeting
• Wednesday, June 3
  • 8-9a, Cascade's Bike Everywhere Breakfast
  • 2-2:45p, GLWSS Speaker Forum: Christa Dumpys, SDOT
  • 6-8p, Seattle Bicycle Advisory Board Meeting
• Thursday, June 4
  • 10-11:30am, FHWA: Developing and Delivering Pedestrian Safety Projects. FHWA.
• Friday, June 5
  • 11-noon, Live Q&A with Doug Gordon & Jennifer Keesmaat on City Streets During & After COVID-19
  • 11-noon, Cities Connecting Children to Nature: Strategies to Promote Walking & Bicycling as Cities Reopen

News

SNOHOMISH COUNTY

• Incumbent State Reps. Ortiz-Self, Peterson both draw two challengers. Mukilteo Beacon
• Help wanted: Mukilteo City Council has seat to fill. Everett Herald

KING COUNTY

Seattle

• Citywide
  • Apply for a Safe Routes to Schools Mini Grant! SDOT
  • Here are the Seattle streets readers want closed to most vehicles to make room for walkers and cyclists. Seattle Times
  • ‘Weeks where decades happen’: Seattle has been a ghost town before. Shaun Scott, Crosscut
  • Bikeshares temporarily removed from Seattle following JUMP-Lime merger. MyNW
  • Will the Seattle TBD be renewed? STB
• North Seattle
  • Man involved in fatal hit-and-run faces multiple charges, prosecutors say. KIRO7
• Central Seattle
  • It’s Time for Mayor Durkan to Bring Stay Healthy Streets Downtown. Eli Goldberg, Urbanist
• West Seattle
  • Highland Park Way hill rechannelization on hold, and other news from HPAC’s discussion with SDOT. WSB
  • Herbold: Highland Park Way/SW Holden safety project update; Take the survey. WSB
  • No, this is NOT a new ‘Stay Healthy Street’. WSB
  • What’s the long-term solution for waterfront driver gatherings? Residents, police discuss @ Alki Community Council. WSB
  • West Seattle Light Rail: 'Guiding principles' survey; new line name. WSB
  • Man involved in fatal hit-and-run faces multiple charges, prosecutors say. KIRO7
  • Bridge Closure
    • With the upper West Seattle Bridge closed, bike trips across the low bridge are higher than non-outbreak years. SBB
    • SDOT working a variety of measures since the bridge closure, on the bridge, on traffic and more. Westside
    • SDOT engages technical experts and community advocates to achieve best possible outcomes for West Seattle Bridge and community. SDOT
    • See who’s on the Community Task Force and Technical Advisory Panel, plus, what else is happening. WSB
    • Duwamish-area advocate Paulina López, and ex-mayor Greg Nickels, will lead effort to address West Seattle Bridge closure traffic. Seattle Times
    • Taking action on the ground and in the community to mitigate impacts of the West Seattle High Rise Bridge Structure. SDOT

Eastside

• Snoqualmie Tunnel on cross-state bicycle trail reopens. Biking Bis

South King County

• Road Bumps on Maplewild. WABI

STATE & PNW

• Feet First to Host Webinar on the Transportation Funding Crisis Friday May 29. Urbanist
• Our travel data helping to inform decision making. WSDOT

NATION & WORLD

• Scrapped JUMP Bikes Raise Questions About Waste in the Micromobility Industry. Streetsblog

Sport

Events

• Wednesday, June 3: Seward Park Crit Series (unclear if it'll start on June 3)

Jobs

Mechanical, Maintenance, Retail, and Bikeshare

Season Bike Shop Mechanic, Bike Works
Mechanics & Retail Staff, Gregg’s Cycles

Policy, Planning, and Engineering

Sustainability and Transportation Analyst, Ecology
Transportation Planner or Engineer, Fehr & Peers