Cascade Bicycle Club

It's time. Cascade Bicycle Club is abandoning X and will be posting our bike education, advocacy, and community news to Blue Sky. This account will remain dormant. We hope our 14k followers will join us. See you over at bsky.app/profile/cascad…

Washington state has once again been named the most bike-friendly state in the nation by @BikeLeague! Check out what makes our state great, and where we still have work to do: wabikes.org/index.php/2024…

It's a win that the Eastlake bike lanes are finally going in!! And we need future critical bike projects to move more swiftly to construction. Our transportation system and our climate cannot wait another decade for another transformational project.

Patel spoke about her city’s efforts to get to zero deaths through better infrastructure and citywide policies, including the need to break the mindset that fatalities are inevitable. @WAbikes #BikeWalkRollSummit

Today’s Lunch keynote was moderated by @BarbChamberlain with Barkha Patel the director of infrastructure for Jersey City NJ who spoke about Getting to Vision Zero. @WAbikes #BikeWalkRollSummit

A Statewide Network of Cycle Highways that Connect Rural, Suburban, and Urban Washington: Jakub Mamczak of the London Cycling Campaign presented from the UK about London’s success in doubling cycling in the city thanks to the addition of protected bike infrastructure. @WAbikes

They shared stories of succcesses in how to effectively advocate for and implement traffic safety initiatives and policies. #BikeWalkRollSummit @WAbikes

Summit session moderated by @BarbChamberlain : Policy Leadership and Action for Safe System Approach with Tacoma deputy mayor, John Hines; King county council member, @KccClaudia ; Spokane city council member, @CouncilZackZ ; Kirkland city council member, Jon Pascal. @WAbikes

@dongho_chang has helped rewrite this important document to add bike safety improvements that are engineering more safety into our streets for people walking and biking. #BikeWalkRollSummit @WAbikes

State traffic engineer @dongho_chang told the hearing summit about updates to the National Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices—the so called bible of traffic safety that sets rules and standards for local traffic engineers nationwide. @WAbikes

This year the program delivered by Cascade in partnership with @wsdot and schools across WA will: reach up to 30k students in 42 school districts and 170 elementary schools, 2100 students after school in youth bike clubs 💚 #BikeWalkRollSummit @WAbikes

Lee Lambert Cascade executive director told Summit attendees about the school based bicycle safety and education program and its huge impact teaching WA youth essential bike skills. #BikeWalkRollSummit @WAbikes

They discussed the huge benefits of the Climate Commitment Act and how repealing it would negatively impact funding for bike programs. #BikeWalkRollSummit @WAbikes

Day 2 of the Bike Walk Roll Summit kicked off with a discussion with Jon Snyder (middle) senior policy advisor to @GovInslee and state Senator Joe Nguyen (right). #BikeWalkRollSummit @WAbikes

@WAbikes @JessieSingerNYC @tooledesign @JessieSingerNYC says the auto industry invented the terms jaywalker and the nut behind the wheel to blame pedestrians and drivers for deaths, rather than poor automobile design and bad streets #BikeWalkRollSummit @WAbikes

@WAbikes @JessieSingerNYC We must accept that mistakes and errors will happen on our streets and design them to minimize the harm caused when drivers inevitably err or crash, @JessieSingerNYC told our large audience. #BikeWalkRollSummit @WAbikes @tooledesign

Keynote speaker and investigative journalist @JessieSingerNYC , author of “There Are No Accidents” spoke about the deadly rise of traffic fatalities and how society’s focus on personal errors rather than the underlying road conditions is an impediment to safety. #Summit @WAbikes

Ramey and students successfully advocated for several demonstration projects near schools that became permanent thanks to student and parent support. @BIKABOUT @HRCSD2 @WAbikes #BikeWalkRollSummit

Megan Ramey of the Hood River County School District spoke about engaging students in the process of creating bike infrastructure during the session Small Money, Big Impact: Quick Build Projects Safer Streets. #BikeWalkRollSummit @WAbikes @HRCSD2 @BIKABOUT