june 2010 advocate newsletter, bicycle alliance of washington

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The Bicycle AlliAnce AdvocATesfor BicyclisTsAnd A Bicycle-friendly WAshingTon

The

AdvocateJUNE 2010

Hub & SpokeVuv

Thursday, June 24, 20105:30 p.m.

Niche Wine & Art1013 Main Street, Vancouver

Complimentary appetizersand no-host bar

RSVP to Louise at206.224.9252 x303 or

[email protected]

LegisLatiVe session Wrap Up

HUb & spoke toUr: next stop VancoUVer

The Bicycle Alliance of Washington, BikeMe! Vancouver and the Vancouver

Bicycle Club are hosting a Hub & Spoke gathering for Vancouver/Clark County

cyclists on Thursday, June 24th at Niche Wine & Art.

This outreach event coincides with a Transportation Improvement Board (TIB)

meeting and Ralph Wessels, Bicycle Alliance board member and the TIB non-mo-torized board member, will be on hand to answer uestions about TIB funding for

bicycle and pedestrian projects. There will also be brief presentations from local

ocials and advocates about current cycling projects and issues.

Ive always had a soft spot in my heart for Vancouver since 2001 when then

Mayor Royce Pollard won the Bicycle Alliances Golden Gear Award for cycling

advocacy, said ED Barbara Culp. He instilled a love of riding in the city for

families and children and since that time the city and county have made signi-

cant improvements to the roadway system. I am particularly eager to hear from

local advocates, to learn about the Clark County bicycle/pedestrian plan update,

and hear what new great strides the City of Vancouver is planning.

The 2010 legislative session was a

whirlwind of activity and the Bicycle

Alliance of Washington walked away

with a victory! The Alliance and its

members (you!) were instrumental in

passing the cell phone and texting bill,

which goes into eect June 10. (See

sidebar for more info on this law.)The Bicycle Alliance mobilized

citizen support, provided connections

to other powerful advocates,

and contributed insights that

kept the campaign on a win-

ning course, stated Lowell

Weiss, the activist who

spearheaded the Driven to

Distraction campaign. The

cycling community really

put this bill over the top and

no group was more eective

in mobilizing cyclists as the

Bicycle Alliance, he added.

We also weighed in on a bill that will

allow golf carts to travel on designated

streets with speed limits of up to 25

miles per hour. The Bicycle Alliance got

the language amended to prohibit golf

carts from using signed bike lanes.

Our Legislative & Statewide Issues

Commiee is meeting in Seale on June12 to review unnished priorities

Continued on page 7

Hang Upor Pay Up!

Eective June 10, 2010, motorists inWashington State can be fned $124or texting or using a handheld cellphone while driving. No cell phoneuse is allowed or 16- and 17-year-old drivers.

The Driven to Distraction Task Force,o which the Bicycle Alliance is amember, is working on an educationcampaign to get the message out.The Task Force is reviewing similarcampaigns and research around thecountry to learn about attitudes,behavior, and practices that makepositive change. For instance,several companies have developedsotware that locks a phone i youare traveling 10 miles per hour ormore. Check www.nodistractions.orgor more ino.


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Tri-Cities Launches BikeCoalitionBy Jeff Petersen, President of 3RBC & Bike Alliance Board member

The Tri-Cities region enjoys a conuence o waterwaysthat include the Columbia, Yakima, and Snake Riversandaverage 300 days o sunshine per year. These conditionsinspired local bicyclists to orm the 3 Rivers Bicycle Coalition(3RBC) in early 2010.

The mission o the 3RBC is to provide a bicycle advocacyand resource organization that promotes improved qualityo lie in and around the Tri-Cities area o Washington

State. The 3RBC has already received unding rom theColumbia Center Rotary Club or the frst 3-4 Share theRoad bicycle routes in Richland. The Richland City Councilapproved receipt o this donation to the City on May4, 2010 and expressed appreciation or the activities othe Coalition and was enthusiastic about extending theroutes to additional shared roads. The frst routes werecompleted at the end o May.

The coalitions objective is to help local communitiesbecome bicycle riendly consistent with the League oAmerican Bicyclists (LAB) criteria. Their 2010 priorities

Bike Advocacy Flourishes in Spokane

Originally published on the Bicycle Alliance blog

Fish Lake Trail ribbon-cutting

The Bicycle Alliance has worked with Spokane citizens ora number o years to help bring biking to the oreront.We helped local cyclists hone their advocacy skills, assistedwith the development o a regional trails plan, organizedcommunity support or the completion o the Fish LakeTrail, and advocated or the adoption o a bicycle masterplan.

The advocacy seeds we have sown in Spokane have takeroot and are ourishing. The cycling climate has improveand the City recently received national recognition rom thLeague o American Bicyclists with a bronze level BicycFriendly Community designation!

Jon Snyder, city councilmember and bike commuter saiWe've come a long way the past ew years thanks to

popular groundswell or urbacycling, but there's much moto do. I think Spokane is one othe nation's best cities or closaccessible, diverse recreationcycling. When you combine thwith a great push or bicyctransportation you end up witan outstanding place to live.

include initiating and expanding the Share the Roadprogram and raising awareness. The leadership is diverswith representatives rom transit, health, law enorcementransportation, and the cycling community. We are exciteabout the uture o sae bicycling in and around the TCities and developing a strong relationship with the BicycAlliance o Washington.

More ino on the coalition can be ound atwww.3RBConlinorg and on their Facebook page.

Early bird special ends July 27

$10 discount to Bike Alliance members

Rapsodybikeride.com


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The Bicycle Alliance of Washington(3)June 2010

In July 2009, Secretaryo Transportation PaulaHammond cut the ribbonto celebrate the newlyr e b u i l t H o o d C a n a lBridge. Cyclists rom all

over Kitsap, Jeerson andClallam counties joined thecelebration but their joysoon turned to dismay asthey rode across the bridgeand encountered manysaety hazards.

A list o critical fxes wasdeveloped by the OlympicRegion Cyclists Association( O R C A ) a n d i t w a spresented in person and

via letters to the OlympicRegion WSDOT. This springGordon Black o ORCA andI traveled to Olympia topresent the needed repairsat the state headquarterso the WSDOT.

At that meet ing theollowing corrections wereagreed upon as soon aspossible to close out theoriginal bridge construction

project:

1 Fix the longitudinal gapin the grated decking.(2 cyclists have crashedin those. ) Foam hasbeen installed but is alsocoming up in places.

2 Apply a non-skid coatingon exposed steel joints.Reported to have beencorrected.

3 Fix the edges o all hingeplates; fx the rivet headsthat extend above; reducethe vertical ridges at all

joints; ix deck drains;improve signage and

striping; and align hingeplates with directiono travel. Reported ascorrected.

Unortunately the bridgeS e c r e t a r y H a m m o n dopened has the same 3wide steel plates installedacross the bridge deckas the old Hood CanalBridge. Those must bereplaced to make the

bridge sae or cyclists.That larger fx requiresadditional transportationenhancement money toinitiate a new project toreplace the existing steelplates across the bridgegrat ing with 8 widedecking. Since that meeting,I have been assured byWSDOT that the money willbe available in July.

However, that means thedesign phase starts in latesummer and will probablymiss this years constructionseason. That means wewont be celebrating thissaety ix until MemorialDay 2011. Stay tuned tothe Bicycle Alliance websiteand blog or updates.

all aunw b p

Citing a growingneed to tend to

d i i c u l t a m i l yhealth issues out-o - s tate , Kr i s t inKinnamon steppeddown as President othe Bicycle AllianceBoard in May. TedInkley has assumedthe role o President.He has over 12 yearso service on theBoard, includinga pr ior s t int as

President.

During her 18-monthtenure as President,Kristin oversaw a transition o the Bikestation to Bike Pomoved sta ofce space adjacent to the Bike Port aciliand welcomed the return o Barbara Culp as ExecutiDirector. Kristin will remain on the Board and continue serve on the Executive Committee as 2nd Vice Presiden

The Board and sta thank Kristin or her dedication aleadership, and welcome Ted to his new role as Presiden

U cu hH cl b

By Barbara Culp

Ted Inkley, new Board President, spent time

cycling in Denmark.

Kristin Kinnamon oversaw

signifcant transitions during her

tenure as Board President.


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LegisLatiVe efforts

Each year, hundreds o bills are submitted to the WashingtonState legislature or review and approval but only a ewreach the Governors desk or signature to become law.The Bicycle Alliance is proud to report that two bills that

we drated on behal o cyclists reached the Governor orsignature.

Our trafc signal bill requires that all new trafc signalsand substantially upgraded ones mustbe capable o detecting bicycles andmotorcycles. Jurisdictions must also setup a procedure or recording signalcomplaints and prioritize those most inneed o detection improvements.

Our Sae Routes to School bill strengthensthe existing program by codiying it.This underscores the importance onon-motorized transportation and thevalue o daily physical activity or youngpeople, and sets the stage or seekinglong term unding in the uture.

The Bicycle Alliance relies on ourmembers to be activists and we hosta Transportation Advocacy Day inOlympia during the legislative session.We partnered with many other groupsto make this event a success and over 100citizen advocates participated in the 2009 event. Scores oothers made their voices heard by writing or calling theirlegislators in response to our action alerts.

poLicy Making

The Bicycle Alliance worked to build bridges between thecycling community and state agencies. Our sta met withSecretary o Transportation Paula Hammond and her stato discuss issues raised by cyclists concerning the Hood CanalBridge modifcations, which has created saety issues orbicyclists. We are seeking ways to improve saety withinthe DOTs budget constraints. We also began work withWSDOT on developing a better line o communication to

the cycling community regarding planned installation orumble strips.

The Bike Alliance represents cyclists on the statewideTransportation Improvement Board, Washington Coalitionto Promote Physical Activity, National Alliance or Bikingand Walking, Sae Routes to School National PartnershipSteering Committee and the Puget Sound RegionalCouncils Transportation Policy Board.

safe roUtes to scHooL

Nearly 800 students in the Moses Lake, Bainbridge Islanand Oak Harbor school districts have learned to bike, waand use transit saely thanks to the Road Saety EducatioPilot Program managed by the Bicycle Alliance. The proje

was unded by the State legislature through the Ofce Superintendent o Public Instruction. We will work with thState and other possible unders to expand this curriculuto other school districts.

Policy Director Dave Janis partnered with Feet First sta give a presentation at the National Sae Routes to Scho

Conerence in Portland, OR. We also joined with Feet Firto provide Sae Routes training or the City o Bonney Lakand Sumner School District.

sHare tHe road

The Bicycle Alliance used proceedsrom the Share the Road license plateto print and distribute educationalmaterials, teach bike saety curriculumto driver education instructors at theWashington Traic Saety EducationAssociation conerence, and work withthe Department o Licensing to surveydriver education schools about theimplementation o bicycle and pedestrianawareness curriculum. We produced andprinted a combined Share the Road Tipssheet or motorists and bicyclists, and weproduced and printed a Share the Trailrack card.

2009 AnnUAl RePoRt


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The Bicycle Alliance sta and board members travelearound the state to meet with bike clubs, communigroups, bike boards, our members and the public to discucycling issues and strategies or successul advocacy.

2009 we talked to over 750 people in Edmonds, SpokanOlympia, Wenatchee, Seattle, Bellingham, TacomLynnwood, Redmond, Seatac and Vancouver.

2009 AnnUAl RePoRt

bicycLe transportation

The Bike Alliance conducted 15 commute workshops in2009: 11 in King County and 4 in Spokane County. Staalso felded numerous e-mail inquiries, phone calls andwalk-in requests or commute inormation, route planningand bike maps.

We also manage the Bike Port (ormerly Bikestation), the24/7 bike parking acility in Seattles Pioneer Square. In2009, we tallied 1751 uses by Bike Port plan holders and 109

short term bike parking uses. Bike Port manager Every Daygave a presentation on bike parking acilities at the PacifcIntermountain Parking & Transportation Associationsconerence.

VoLUnteers

Over 232 individuals gavetheir time to the BicycleAlliance in 2009. Thesevolunteers donated over4900 hours doing things

ranging rom data entryand month end mailings,to tabling at communityevents, doing commuteworkshops, organizingour annual auction,test i y ing at publ icmeetings, attendingTransportation AdvocacyDay and serving on theBoard.

bike cLUb/rides partners

Thanks to the ollowing bike clubs and groupswho supported our advocacy eorts with fnancialcontributions rom event rides and related grantsin 2009: BIKES o Snohomish County, CapitalBicycling Club, Courage Classic, Cycle the WAVE,Port Townsend Bicycle Association, Phils SouthSide Cyclery, Skagit Bicycle Club, Spokane BicycleClub, Spokanes Aurora NW Rotary Club, TacomaWheelmens Bicycle Club, Tri-City Bicycle Club,Vancouver Bicycle Club, Wheatland WheelersCycling Club, West Sound Cycling Club.

Special thanks to the 5 bike clubs that organizethe annual Ride Around Puget Sound (RAPSody),proceeds o which beneft the Bicycle Alliance: BIKESo Snohomish County, Capital Bicycling Club, Cyclistso Greater Seattle (COGS), Tacoma WheelmenBicycle Club, and West Sound Cycling Club. Visit

rapsodybikeride.com.

2009 Major donor ($250 and aboVe)

Thank you to: Stephen Albrecht & Katherine Berndt, Fraser& Deirdre Black, Amy Carlson, Anthony Chen, King Cushman,Chelle Davidson, Brian & Yumiko Dorsey, John Duggan,Kathryn Gardow & David Bradlee, Gabe Grijalva, AdamHasson, Nancy Helm, Pamela Jones, Kristin Kinnamon, MattLeber, Nancy MacKerrow, Bobby Mullins, Bob Myrick, JadineRiley, Jadine Rolcik, Willie Weir, Dena Wessels, Terry Winger,BIKES of Snohomish County, Boeing, Capital Bicycling Club,

Elliott Family Foundation, Group Health, JP Morgan Chase,Kongsgaard-Goldman Foundation, Lee & Hayes, Microsoft,New Belgium Brewing Company, Phils South Side Cyclery,Phoebe Haas Trust, Port Townsend Bicycle Association, REIFoundation, Skagit Bicycle Club, Tacoma Wheelmen BicycleClub, Tri-City Bicycle Club, Unico Properties, Vancouver BicycleClub, Vulcan.

The Bicycle Alliance o Washington is a membero EarthShare Washington and participated in work-place giving campaigns. We had 265 businesses andindividuals who donated nearly 500 items to ourannual auction.


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I n c o m eContributions $182,281

Membership $64,504

Grants $18,500

Events $131,614

Programs & Contracts $165,018

Other $18,866

TOTAL $580,783

e x p e n s eOperational Support $36,470Programs $433,910

Events $29,958

Development & Fundraising $54,915

TOTAL $555,253

staffDave JanisActing ED/PolicyDirector

Every DayCommute ProgramsDirector

Donna GovroOfce Coordinator &Membership Assistant

Louise McGrodyOutreach &CommunicationsManager

JoAnn YoshimotoDevelopment Director

Kristin KinnamonPresident, Marysville

King Cushman1st Vice President,Seattle

Thom Skaanland2nd Vice President,Enumclaw

Eileen HyattSecretary, Spokane

Mark ThomasTreasurer, Redmond

Ralph WesselsPast President, GigHarbor

Mary AndersonBellingham

Rick BrowningSeattle

Bob DuyLacey

Sarah GelineauTonasket

Julie GreggSeattle

Ted InkleySeattle

Karen KueverSeattle

Amy LutzSpokane

Dave ManelskiSeattle

Joan McBrideKirkland

David McLeanSeattle

Liz McNett CrowlMount Vernon

Bobby MullinsSeattle

Jill PriestOlympia

Erin WeberProsser

John WhitlowBainbridge Island

2009 AnnUAl RePoRt

2009 board MeMbers


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The Bicycle Alliance of Washington(7)

thak yu! th Bicyc Aiac f Washig is a 501(c)(3) rgaizai. Yur dai is ax-dducib h fus x awd by

YES! I would like to become a member of

the Bicycle Alliance of Washington

Name

Address

City, State, Zip

Phone

E-mail

Please charge my:

American Express Visa MasterCard

Card # Expires

Signature

My check is enclosed

My git will be matched by my employer:

Employer form included.

$35 Individual

$60 Family

$100 Patron

$250 Sustaining $500 Lie

$15 Student/Senior or Living Lightly

Your preerred amount $

$150 Afliate (clubs, businesses, organizations)

I am already a member this is a renewal.

I am interested in monthly giving.

I would like to volunteer.

I would like to receive e-mail alerts.

I would like inormation on commuting by bicycle.

Send checks payable to:

Bicycle Alliance o Washingt

309A Third Ave S

Seattle, WA 98104

Thank you! The BicycleAlliance o Washington isa 501(c)(3) organization.Your donation is 100% taxdeductible.

The Bicycle Alliance occasionally

exchanges its mailing list with

organizations involved in similar

issues. If you DO NOT want to

have your name exchanged,

please check here.

Sharethe roadlicenSeplateSavailableatanyvehiclelicenSingofficeorgetamail-inapplicationat bicyclealliance.org

June 2010

Tour de Fat will again bemeandering and pandering,

spreading the good wordabout the bicycle! New BelgiumBrewings traveling bike estivaleatures live entertainment,a costumed bike parade orkids and adults, a car-or-biketrade, beer garden and oodvendors. Proceeds rom Tour deFat beneft the Bicycle Allianceo Washington and Bike Works.

We need volunteers to helpus sta this event! We need

olks to help with set up andclean up, check IDs, sell beertokens, pour beer, serve water,and sta the Bike Alliance inotable. All volunteers receivea Tour de Fat t-shirt and reebeer token. Contact LouiseMcGrody at 206.224.9252 x303or [email protected] youd like to help out!

Continued from front page

and discuss possible new prioriti

to take on for 2011. This Commiee

meeting is open to anyone. Please RS

to Dave Janis, 206.224.9252 x302 or

[email protected] if youd likto participate. Check our Legislative

Page under Programs at www.bicy-

clealliance.orgfor meeting details an

more information about our prioritie

Many thanks to the volunteers

around the State who serve on our

Legislative Commiee, and a special

thank you to our capable lobbyist,

Michael Temple.

saturday, July 31

10am 4pmGaWork park,seattle

toUr de fat


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s h o W Y o u r B I K e p r I d e !

The Alliance will participate in the Seattle Pride Parade

again this year, and we want bicyclists to help us put

on a real show! On Sunday, June 27th, come cycle to

disco music, and decorate your ride or a great time and

wonderul community spirit. Contact Every Day, 206-224-

9252 x 304 or more details and to sign up.

Pride riders rom 2009

Save the Date!18th Annual Auction

Sowing Seeds Statewidehl w t f biylavay tatwi by jiig at aal fai! ckwww.bicyclealliance.org/auctionf at ifati. Atigati w!

Saturday, October 23, 2010 at 5:30PM

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