improving lives through bicycling
Celebrating 45 years! p. 6-7 June 2015 / Vol. 45 No. 06
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Thank you for a fantastic Bike Month!
Mayor Murray joins in for Bike to School Day.
Phheeewwww! We are still catching our breath here at Cascade after a whirlwind of a month. Thank you to the thousands of people across the region that helped make this Bike Month, one of the most successful yet! On National Bike to School Day, coordinators from across the region pulled out all of the stops to encourage their kids to bike to school. We rode with hundreds of students throughout the region to school, making it our biggest year yet!
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• 62 schools participated (47 elementary, 8 middle, 7 high schools). • 3,162 students rode to school on Bike to School Day, up 23% from last year. • To kick off the month right, one student and his dad rode all the way from Bellevue to Seattle Country Day in Queen Anne! • Seattle Mayor Ed Murray joined more than 200 students and parents en route to Alki Elementary, which he himself attended when he was a kid. • For a fun exercise, Adams Elementary set up a mini cyclocross course in front of school for the kids to ride on when they got to school. Next year they said they’re going to set up a real course with caution tape and barriers!
The Sheraton Hotel was the place to be on May 7 as hundreds of people packed the banquet room for our 11th annual Group Health Bike Everywhere Breakfast, and helped us raise over $200,000 to improve lives through bicycling. Each year, Cascade presents the Doug Walker Lifetime Achievement Award to an individual or company showing exceptional commitment to improving lives through bicycling. This year, we chose Davey Oil, who is helping make our region’s families happy, one family bike at a time. Family biking has exploded in Seattle since Davey and Tyler Gillies founded G+O Family Cyclery only 1.5 short years ago in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood. Thank you, Davey, for helping bring smiles to happy faces all over the region. The momentum continued throughout the month, and we saw a fantastic F5 Bike to Work Day attendance with more than 15,000 people stopping by over 80 commute stations all across the region. On that morning of May 15, five rides—one from every corner of Seattle— descended on Union Station to rally for safer streets and thank elected officials for their continued support. And throughout the month of May, competition in the Bike Month Challenge presented by Adobe was fierce. More than 15,000 people participated, logged more than 190,000 bike trips and 1,290,000 miles by the time this piece was written (mid-May). Thank you all for riding; for participating in our challenges, contests and events; and for demonstrating what this region could look like if we had safe, connected streets to ride on.
Cascade board president Catherine Hennings had a good time at the Ride and Rally.
Davey Oil, Doug Walker Lifetime Achievement Awardee.
You still have a chance to ride STP!
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By Rebecca Sorensen, Events Producer
So you were on the fence, and now you’re the only one of your friends without a ticket to the Group Health Seattle to Portland presented by Alaska Airlines. You still have a chance to ride! We will officially reopen registration on Tuesday, June 16, at 10 a.m. (PDT). There will be a limited number of registrations available for sale. For registered riders whose plans have changed, please remember the refund deadline is Thursday, June 11. We do expect it to sell out quickly, so don’t hesitate if you want to ride! All registrations will be sold online through our website.
Join 9,999 of your closest friends for a ride to Portland!
Please note: A portion of this year’s ride is through Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Only registered riders with official STP bibs will be allowed through the manned gates. Register at: cascade.org/stp/registration