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A perfectly designed flow chart. One of the things I love about living in Olympia: I almost never hear a honk, unless it's from the Canadian geese hanging out at the park by the inlet.

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"Land of the free, home of the brave." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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That feeling when you read someone's strategic plan with a goal that essentially says "we can do everything!", you think it's pretty grandiose, then you remember multisolving and realize that yes, active transportation does all of the above.

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"Spring is nature's way of saying, Let's Party!" Robin Williams is the perfect muse for Earth Day and I wish he was still here.

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Today in "find that federal resource": Guide to Expanding Mitigation: Making the Connection to Older Adults gone from FEMA site. Found on a UN site www.preventionweb.net/media/81667/.... Thanks, UN! #emergencies #DisasterResponse #aging #HealthyAging #preparedness #FEMA

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Here are three climate fiction stories from Asian authors. First up is, The Ones Left Behind by K.J. Chien. grist.org/climate-fict... #Fiction #ClimateFiction #AsianAuthors #OwnVoices #AsianLit Thread of stories....

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me to the united states: this could be us but you playin’

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When I hear that transportation policy should embrace "user-pay" principles I hear that transportation policy should ignore all evidence that transportation is safer when we build for all road users rather than pit them against each other based on who pays gas tax (while ignoring all other taxes)

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You should subscribe before this morning's edition goes out. #WSDOTActive #BikeSky #EBikes #cycling #BikeEverywhere #BicyclesChangeLives #bicycle

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Had an occasion to share this 2012 piece by @sgoodyear.bsky.social on how driving kids everywhere diminishes their ability to know where they are and where they're going www.bloomberg.com/news/article.... #SafeRoutesNow #KidsDeserveIt #transportation #BikeSky #walking #BikeWalkRoll

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1/3 of people living in the US do not have a driver's license. On April 30, we're excited to host Anna Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social, author of @islandpress.bsky.social When Driving Is Not an Option. Join us at PSU as Anna shines a light on the reality for non-drivers: trec.pdx.edu/events/ann-n...

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Captured thoughts on March delights in my life, which are there even through all the what's-is exploding around us. biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2025/03/marc... #March #poetry #poems #poem #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #dandelions #flowers #spring #grateful #PoetryOfPresence #ThichNhatHanh

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"change will be most likely when multiple facets of a person’s social, physical and cultural surroundings align in supporting non-motorised mobility." We aligned all this for driving and people drive. We've shifted other big default settings--we can do this. #CarCulture #MobilityJustice

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My children are adults now but everything about this rings true for my e-bike life. I'd add that I go for bike rides with friends just because, never random car rides to nowhere. www.theatlantic.com/family/archi... #EBikes #BicyclesChangeLives #BikeSky #FamilyBike #cycling

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I'll add that with the growing numbers of older people, more and more of us are going to need to rest those weary bones more often. An age-friendly town is a town that has places to sit a spell. #AgeFriendly #HealthyAging #AgeInPlace #aging #planning #UrbanPlanning #PublicPlaces #PublicSpaces

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For a break from whatever you need a break from, a collection of bicycle poems bikestylelife.com/2022/12/10/i.... #BikeSky #cycling #poetry #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #BikePoems

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Stuck in traffic? Don't blame me on my bike; blame the giant vehicles y'all are driving, taking up more pavement. By @davidzipper.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #CarCulture #SUV #SUVBloat #CarBloat #RoadSafety #Traffic #transportation

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Is it just me or is BlueSky search really abysmal? I can't bring up something I know I posted so instead I have to scroll back through my profile. This keeps happening.

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If you travel through Tonasket on SR20 you may want to comment on the Complete Streets bike/ped elements in the project. More marked crossings for one thing. Open house 3/27, 4-6:30pm www.gazette-tribune.com/community/pu.... #CompleteStreets #WSDOTActive #transportation #infrastructure

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Apparently our striped cat isn't the only one that likes to sit in a box.

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Books

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Need a stress break? Maybe improv is just the thing. If you're in Olympia, WA, come to recruitment rehearsal 3/26 for new family-friendly troupe forming now! Is it Improv-OH-lee or im-PROV-uh-lee? Yes, yes it is! www.improvoly.com/recruitment-... #OlyWA #improv #ImprovOly #OlympiaWA

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SO MANY good tips in replies to this! I'm saving them because I hope to take a long Amtrak trip one of these days, maybe with my bike to get off and ride around, stay for a day or two in a town, get back on and keep going. Trains are awesome. #Amtrak #TrainsAreAwesome #BikesAndTrains #Travel

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"...so many of the pieces of proposed legislation around e-bike regulation and registration requirements concern those of us without licenses who use e-bikes for mobility." -- @nondriver.bsky.social #EBikes #MoveEquity #MobilityJustice #cycling #BikeSky #BicyclesChangeLives #WhyWeRide #Nondrivers

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I remember @transportist.net crowdsourcing Pedestrian Bill of Rights several years ago on the nameless site. transportist.org/2018/07/09/a... #MoveEquity #MobilityJustice #WalkBikeRoll #walking #walkability #CompleteStreets #PeopleStreets #transportation #infrastructure #RoadSafety #SafetyOverSpeed

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Powerful comments by @RepRickLarsen.bsky.social: "It’s not about equity and it’s not about the environment and it’s not about green infrastructure. It’s about saving lives and preventing deaths." Discussion of tribal & rural deaths, safety crisis. #RoadSafety #transportation #infrastructure #IIJA

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Bills still alive in #WAleg that affect active transportation, seeking bike infrastructure data, webinars and more in WSDOT Walk + Roll content.govdelivery.com/accounts/WAD.... #WSDOTActive #BikeSky #infrastructure #transportation #walkability #RoadSafety #CompleteStreets

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Wild when you realize our government requires less quality control and safety testing on Cybertrucks than the average small town pinewood derby ...

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Last post tonight just to say the red wing black birds are back and also that the world remains indivisible and interconnected and that we could have good lives in balance and peace if we empowered those who honor the interconnections instead of those who fight it with every breath.

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And did I mention that if you subscribe to the WSDOT Walk + Roll E-News you'll get an email when the portal is open to sign up for the rebate drawing? (and lots of other useful news) bit.ly/WSDOTactive-... #WSDOTActive

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The sky is my runway, and I own it. 🚀🦉 📸 johnnyyonkers

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