Megan Ramey
@BIKABOUT
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Safe Routes to School Manager 4 Hood River. Bike 🚲 travel writer & map 🗺 maker. Scheming on bike 🛏️ hostel in Columbia Gorge. 🔗Op-ed on ebikes and ⛽ prices
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Moms: the indicator species for a healthy city.
When you see Mom and child biking side-by-side and smiling or talking, this indicates a great bikeway.
#HappyMothersDay
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Ebikes are reversing the school drop-off and pick-up culture.
Phil just got his e-trike, in part, to pick up his 3rd grade grandson from school.
Instead of idling in his car in a long line, he's right up front in the fresh air, having conversations with other caregivers.
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80% of noise pollution in cities is caused by cars.
It's no secret: New York City is loud 🗣️
Nearly 40% of New Yorkers experience frequent noise pollution from traffic.
Reports to 311 for car honking complaints increased 2.8x between 2010 and 2016.
More driving leads to more noise pollution.
We need to reduce driving.
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3 hour train 🚆 ride over 500 miles, from Paris to Provence.
Driving 🚗 would be 8 hours. European trains are the bomb.
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"you're either a car or a bike, make up your mind!" shouted an "anonymous" man out of his car window.
He didn't suspect that I'd recognize his car as a neighbor and show up at his door to talk to him the next day.
This is one of the upsides of small town life.
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When your 14 year old asks to go solo grocery shopping for 🦃 Thanksgiving, you thank your lucky stars.
E-cargobikes are breeding a very different teenager.
P.S. she called me no less than 4 times to ask about the shopping 🛒 list and where things were.
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22 minute bike ride on separated bikeways from our hotel to the airport.
Bonus: views of the Mediterranean Sea
Sorry San Diego, Nice France takes the trophy 🏆 for the most bikeable airport.
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Nothing seduces the older men at the hardware store faster than parking a cargo bike with a Christmas 🎄 tree at the front door.
11 year
#TreeByBike
tradition intact
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"Let me just go back to get the truck" -husband
Me: I got this. It's all in the rigging.
4 of 2X4x10"
3 of 2X4x8"
+ 1 of moody teenager
My trip to the lumberyard 🪚 made possible with an
@UrbanArrowcom
cargo bike.
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Eating at a food truck patio and asked a a guy to turn off his truck so I didn't have to smell his fumes while I ate.
This turned into a 4 strangers debating the law with me and "I was born and raised here, were you?"
Gas is still to cheap.
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Parents, play your cards right, and your 13 year old will valet you in a cargo bike versus you being their taxi driver.
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For the love of God, give us ebike rebates.
38 million Americans have ridden an e-bike this year.
HALF of our car trips are under 3 miles, and e-bikes replace car trips. Rebates would be huge. 👇
@yitgordon
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3 people riding Urban Arrows lead 10,000 blocking traffic on the German Autobahn
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I'm writing an op-ed on gas ⛽️ prices and e(cargo)bikes.
What are barriers or incentives?
1 - cost, ROI
2 - car replacement, kid hauling, carryshitolympics
3 - physical ability
4 - vulnerability, infrastructure, fear of cars
5 - storage
6 - fun, convenience
What am I missing?
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"that's the first time I've seen someone do that!"
Without fail, the childish grin and curiosity in men when they see a 🎄by bike.
12 year
#treebybike
tradition✔️
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"Safe Routes to School Manager gets pulled over by the police" 😅
Kids, even when it's dumping 🌧️ and 3+ vehicles per block are in the bike lane, "it's unsafe to go through a red light (w/pedestrian)" when 0 cars are coming to get a jump on the traffic that will squeeze you out.
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👋I'm Megan and this is my husband, Kyle.
We are goofballs in
#HoodRiver
, pop. 8,000, and work our tails off to make streets safe with kid-centric infrastructure and bike education and he, to rehab donor bikes to families in need.
Be a goofball in rural America.
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"DISMOUNT YOUR BIKE IN THE CROSSWALK!"
Angry man yelled at our bike club of girls crossing quickly bc a diff car was waiting for us.
He stopped and yelled when we were halfway across. I rode up to him and said, don't yell at kids. Not tolerating that aggression in small towns.
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"Now I can pick you up from playdates!"
Says our 12 year old biking her Dad for the first time on Father's Day.
God, I love our
@UrbanArrowcom
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Cities, these are your target customers.
2 women pulling a trailer with a kid was non-existent 10 years ago in
#Atlanta
, but the city is laying down a bike network, one bit at a time. The progress is visible with the diversity of the riders, specifically women and children.
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"Slowwwwest 🐢 race" teaches the 5th graders bike agility and control and they LOVE playing it.
Last one over the finish line (without putting a foot down) wins. 3 of them beat me!
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How about we pay
#BikeBus
and Walking Bus organizers $300/month to take kids to school in a more joyful way?
Due to a bus driver shortage, Philadelphia will pay parents $300/mo to drive their child to school.
Wouldn't be an issue if more kids could bike or walk to school in one of the largest, densest American cities.
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@tomflood1
15 kids on a 6 foot strip of pavement while 60 feet sits unused next to it.
This is why the
#biketrain
is one of the best tools in advocacy because it shows how misaligned our priorities are and what needs to change.
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"you are 1 busy lady"
Says Marianne, my new 80 year old friend who walks 2 miles a day and loves the new safe walkway and the bike 🚲 🚂 train.
Safe Routes to School means Safe Routes for seniors.
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School district wants to spend $2000 on these for walking and biking students in response to close calls with biking high school students and teachers.
How do I nicely articulate that it's not the best use of resources?
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Hell yes, I was serious when I offered my injured friend to be her pedicab for errands. I love my
@UrbanArrowcom
and cargo bikes.
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I helped 35 5th graders break out of school today 🤪
There is nothing like giving them a real world street to test their skills.
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As someone who is an advocate for safe streets for kids to bike to school and also races in a
@usacycling
events, I call on them to take responsibility for their words.
Magnus White was hit and killed by a person driving.
Learn from this and issue an apology and restatement.
It is with an extremely heavy heart that we share the news that 17-year-old Magnus White has passed away in a training accident.
Please read USA Cycling's statement in Memory of Magnus White:
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"Open other streets permanently. Dynamite the asphalt, sod the land, plant trees and flowers, and do not look back."
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"SO many people!"
Kids want to feel like they belong and bike 🚲 🚂 train makes that happen in Hood River, Oregon, pop. 8,000.
Watch the end when my guys get to rip down the whoop-dees 🙌
#walkandrolltoschoolday
#bikebus
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Ebikes are the marijuana of politics. No left or right, just joy.
Unlike pot, ebikes get stuff done. We sold our
#ebike
to the son of my friend and he is 1😃hunter.
For my birthday, I want leaders to see them as a tool to make EVERYONE stronger and happier.
@SecretaryPete
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"Kids can't bike to school in the snow"
Finnish students: hold my Lumiukkosoppa
“During the depths of winter, temperatures can drop as low as -22F, with just four hours of daylight.
Despite these harsh conditions, 12% of winter journeys are made by bicycle in the city of Oulu.” 🚲 🇫🇮
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For any city designing a bike/ped bridge, induced demand is real and mixing ebikes and people walking is a recipe for friction.
Design a wider space to accommodate multiple uses with flexible separation in between them.
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If there was a "sharrows are bullshit" contest, this would be top 5.
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3 years ago, the bike 🚲🚂 train was born at this school.
Where were all my bike bus riders this morning?
They biked to school independently and that's the world I always wanted.
102 kids and parents took a break from distance learning to ride in 2 bike trains 🚲🚂 for
#biketoschoolday
and I was the conductor!
When in-person school is safe again, we need to make this happen every day
#hoodriver
@SafeRoutesPNW
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I've experienced this. I beat Google Maps walking time by 8 minutes.
Also, driving time is not door-to-door, inclusive of parking and walking to the destination.
“Don’t let that make you get into a car… just walk fast.”
Wise words from former
@RedSox
outfielder
@gabekapler
. ⚾️
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No greater power felt than driving the speed limit.
Hood River Bridge just lowered the speed limit from 25 to 15 and I thought the guy behind me was going to lose his mind that I was <gasp> following it.
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Top 5 places kids want to ride their bikes to*:
1. Parks/playground
2. Friend's house
3. Library
4. Pool
5. Food/Retail - Dairy Queen, Starbucks, Subway, grocery, Walmart
* according to Kindergartners and 5th graders that I am teaching how to ride this week
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"they are actually displacing 4X as much demand for oil as all the world’s EVs at present"
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2 trees 🎄, 1 bike. Why do people “need” cars again?
#treebybike
#ebikesarecheating
#holidays
#urbanarrow
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Love the summer, but I can't WAIT to lead a bike train for Cascade Locks again.
This video was my reward for filing my photos today.
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Hell, him just knowing that I know where he lives feels good.
25 years ago when I lived in Georgia, I was that angry driver. Everyone outside your car is something in your way, un-human.
I really hope I see him again and we can have a civil talk about the way he made me feel🧵
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"Biking to the Airport", a comic book may be in my future.
I have many wild stories, but this one tops. When we flew home to PDX, I went to unlock my bike and this was in the basket, covered. PLEASE help me piece the story together.
P.S. major bike 💕 to my fellow ✈️ riders.
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Don't finger wag teens riding ebikes on the sidewalk. Advocate for an infrastructure solution.
Hood River can't reprioritize a vehicle travel lane into a 2-way cycletrack fast enough.
#throttlekids
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Scarlett is my "no bad weather" girl. She shows up every week and we have little chats.
Every time I take these kids to school, we trade stories.
🚲🚂
#biketrain
is knitting the social fabric of our community back together.
#hoodriver
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One of her friends lives 1 mile from us, but the only way to get there is on Hwy 281.
With infra like this, it's no wonder perfectly capable tweens require their parents as taxi drivers in America.
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I ♥️ stair rails for bikes 🚲
American engineers, take note.
#wednesdaywonk
#kidfriendlycity
#bikeinfrastructure
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I apologized again for disrupting her in the nicest way I could before leaving.
The guy is obviously mad at the world and it wasn't the closure I hoped for but at least he knows now that he lives in a community that has expectations...🧵
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My virtual hearing for this ticket is this Wednesday. Will report back.
"Safe Routes to School Manager gets pulled over by the police" 😅
Kids, even when it's dumping 🌧️ and 3+ vehicles per block are in the bike lane, "it's unsafe to go through a red light (w/pedestrian)" when 0 cars are coming to get a jump on the traffic that will squeeze you out.
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Texting, no mask, eating McDs while driving, doesn't use a turn signal, vocalizes frustration with other normally behaving drivers, and I can't tell you how many times I've woken up by the rumble strip. Unfit to drive,
@FlixBus_USA
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1st noticable progress in New York bike culture is the increase in kids riding.
This tween and Dad were chattering away on the Hudson River Greenway 🌈
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Chugging to school on the Bike 🚲🚂 Train.
I love to see the kids reclaiming their streets in
#hoodriver
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My altercation was on a n'hood street that may benefit from a diverter, but traffic anger manages to creep in.
As people who walk or bike, we have to be psychiatrists or behavioral sociologists to weather these interactions and I feel ill-equipped but I'm trying. End 🧵
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Feeling free and motherly are not mutually exclusive.
The power to transport my daughter by bike is the best type of freedom I ever experienced as a mom.
📷 2011, The Netherlands, a favorite memory. Happy
#WorldBicycleDay
!
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340 car-free mile
@GAP_Trail
is 1st in America w/ bike parking with e-bike charging and they did it just the way I envisioned, cobbling together bike racks and GFCI receptacles - brilliant.
No high tech, just functional.
Plan your trip with my guide:
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Never in my wildest dreams did I think a stock market site would approach me to write THE op-ed that my brain has been chewing on for 6 years.
OPINION: E-bikes are the most addictive, fun, transformative product on the market right now, which makes them incredibly effective as a car replacement,
@BIKABOUT
writes.
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2 blocks long of JOY!
Bike Bus leaders from around the globe 🌎 got to ride with Barcelona's children to school in their
#BiciBus
this morning.
This sight should be how every town and city in the world starts their day. Volume 🔊up!
#bikebus
#biketrain
#barcelona
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London's cycle highway 6 works like a champ in rush hour.
Passing 39 cars felt so good. Passing that bus of people sitting in traffic, not so much.
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Want to shine a light on inequities and safety for kids in your city? Start a
#BikeBus
.
3 years later,
#HoodRiver
has $11 million (+counting), transportation plans highlight Safe Routes to School goals, 200+ kids received free bikes and 1500 kids receive 🚲education in PE class.
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"this is my new car!"
Said by this single mother of 2 kids who needs it to ride to work.
I was so happy to find this sweet Gary Fisher donation bike for her.
#newbikeday
#hoodriver
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Barcelona by bike, a 📷🧵
We had to check our 3
@BromptonBicycle
on
@vueling
and after tweaking some issues from baggage handling, we made our way onto the wrong train from the airport. Luckily, I figured it out quickly, we hopped off and biked to our flat in San Antoni.
1/n
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Bike 🚲🚂 Train had 12 kids this morning.
5th grade is back to distance learning because of a Covid case. 5 bus route is also quarantined.
All the more reason to continue the train as a safe, normal way to get to school during this time of everyday change.
#saferoutestoschool
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Same bike train, 2 vibes
Through the neighborhood, the girls spread out and sing.
When we bike on the sidewalk, the fun stops and they have to ride single file to share with people walking. These kids need a dedicated cycletrack so badly.
#hoodriver
@OregonDOT
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And I didn't deserve to be talked to that way. We live in a small town and have to be kind to one another.
She said that he had "gotten hit by a bike"(?) as an excuse for the behavior. I told her I was not that person and would be more than happy to talk in person about it...🧵
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Jeez, sorry to leave y'all hanging.
I saw his blue car on a side street where he pulled out behind me. I remember being initially confused why he chose his driving route. I knew he must live in the neighborhood and it felt like a Sherlock moment to see my hunch materialize. 🧵
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Proof that you can ride a bike to special occasions, dressed for the destination, in Atlanta, no less.
My daughter and I cinched up our dresses for the ride, watched our beautiful friends get married and twirled to our delight on the dance floor.
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Anything is possible
This family of 5 is touring from Canada border to San Fran and camping along the way. I was blown. Away
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Moms organized in the 1970s leading to a culture of child friendly cities in The Netherlands.
Support Moms, they get shit done and make the 🌎 better.
@BicycleDutch
📽️ on the Kindermoord movement:
Color 📸 by
@modacitylife
#HappyMotherDay
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What a difference 1 week makes. I rode with my "nieces" to their JP elementary school last Monday and now they have a protected bike lane on Green Street. Well done,
@CityOfBoston
!
Listen to Hanna calling "Annika!" while she desperately tries to catch up to her.
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Contrast these streets at night. Which is better for mental health and local business?
(Lt) 12th Street in
#HoodRiver
(Rt) Delft 📷
@modacitylife
The curse of a planner turns a glogg-fueled walk into a visioning exercise.
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I was asked to help teach a migrant children's bike camp in The Dalles tomorrow and bring my bikes.
I said, hell yes.
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This 6 year old (who biked to school for the 1st time) doesn't know her home of Hood River County just won the Safe Routes planning grant 💲
Her school is 1 of 5 that will get a plan of routes 2 miles away to school meaning in the future, she will have more biking friends.
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"I hope you don't have far to go!?" says loading service.
Me: I wish I had farther, only 1/4 mile.
The
@urbanarrow
cargo bike makes picking up a vacuum steam cleaner, soil and plants easy. I can't tell you how much money and emotional stress this machine has saved us.
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I am officially the first Safe Routes to School Manager for
#HoodRiver
County School District.
Been sitting on this news for a month and couldn't wait to share it. Contract is signed!
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I told her what happened w/ him driving closely behind me on a neighborhood street on an icy day and then yelling at me. I explained he had every opportunity to alter his route so he wouldn't be stuck behind me.
I said I was their neighbor who lived 2 blocks away, a mother...🧵
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All the hype and anecdotes are real.
I finally rode with
@CoachBalto
and his squad of
#BikeBus
volunteers and students.
Takeaways:
1. Weather doesn't matter
2. Mascots are bonus. Phoebe 🐶 is 👌
3. Music 🎶 makes it
4. Little ones and their parents bring ❤️
Start one now!
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“When you get students & parents out of their cars and out in the community, that is where the magic happens”
@CoachBalto
If a Portland PE teacher and a Hood River mom advocate can start a bike train-bus, you can, too.
📸
@bikeportland
Article🔗
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The brand new Somerville Community Trail has enabled an almost car-free bike route to Boston.
This is a huge connection in the Greenway vision for the region and only 1 of the many improvements we'll experience over the next few days.
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The bridge connecting the Going Neighborhood Greenway is one of our favorite unsung pieces of bike infrastructure in Portland.
Capturing it in a video by riding one handed is harder than it looks 😬
#bikeportland
#portland
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"Ebikes are life changing!"
Said the teary eyed wife whose husband took this picture. They happened to be on their first
#ebike
ride ever when our group of local and state policymakers descended on them.
"I feel high, like I can breath for the first time in awhile," she said.
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"Eye of the Tiger 🐯 " sung by kids is the medicine we all need.
I had the joy of taking 4 different groups of 5th graders on rides to celebrate their last week in elementary school.
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Bike Club takes the longest after school ride yet, 7 miles.
We had a nice mix of city streets, trail and rural streets AND beautiful sunshine!
#80sWalkRollClub
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Bike to School days are subversive advocacy for infrastructure and kid-centric city design.
These kids are riding in a vehicle travel lane that should be turned into a protected 2-way bikeway so they have a safe route to school.
#bikemonth
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1st year in my job held many highlights but teaching 83 kids how to bike may top the list.
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"I have never spent this type of money on myself. It's nicer than any car I've owned. But it will bring me joy and get the kids around." Amen, sister.
Meet the newest member of the
#hoodriverminivan
club.
#ecargobike
#xtracycle
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E-micromobility is changing lives for students who don't have the option to ride a bike.
Dre was so excited to ride during the bike clinic at Middle School, learning street safety alongside his peers, versus being stuck behind with a caregiver. All kids deserve independence.
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Bikes, the best canvases for Halloween
👻🎃💀
Let's see your
#halloweenbike
#bikecostume
!
📷 from
#carfree
Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA...as all streets should be for
#Halloween
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Our kids get to be kids on consolation sidewalks next to head-on traffic going 30+mph while city committees debate definition of traffic calming.
Almost ready to fix this overnight.
#biketrain
#biketoschool
#tacticalurbanism
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2 nights in Seattle is not enough
As always, we enjoy the 2-way bike lanes around this city.
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@AnnaZivarts
My daughter and I took the bus to her dental appointment and they wouldn't release her to me unless I had a car ready. I blew a fuse and threatened to call the police.
They called and paid for a cab, but I was still livid.
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1st ❄️ snowy day for bike 🚲 🚂 train- 🤩 look at these rockstar girls!
We had a brief talk before the bike ride home about riding at "jogging speed", gradual braking and sweeping turns and they were like snow biking pros!
#winterbiking
#saferoutestoschool
#biketrain
#hoodriver
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