Apr 19, 2013 | Bike Racks, Cycling, Featured
WABI Burien’s Bike Rack Sponsorship Sprint was launched at 9:00 a.m. this morning. By 2 seconds after 9:00, the first sponsor had e-mailed a pledge to sponsor two racks. By 9 seconds after 9:00, the second sponsor wrote in. And so it went. By 9:15, we had TWENTY...
Apr 17, 2013 | Bike Racks, Cycling, Featured
The other day a bunch of Highline High School Class of ’75 classmates were gathered for chips and salsa. After a few margaritas, conversation rolled around to the Burien Bike Rack Project. Before long, all the Highline Pirates at the long table were pledging...
Apr 17, 2013 | Bike Racks, Featured
There are 41 snazzy, new bike racks coming into town and each one is looking for a good name: YOURS. Sponsor a Bike Rack You can have your business, organization, family or personal name emblazoned on two sides of a bike rack for 5 whole years for the low cost of...
Apr 17, 2013 | Bike Racks, Featured, Health & Well-Being
Increasing secure parking is a key component of making Burien more bikeable and connecting residents to local business. We’ve got 41 new, custom bike racks coming in May, to be distributed among the city’s commercial areas. These racks will go a long way...
Apr 11, 2013 | Bike Racks, Bike/Ped Advocacy, Cycling, Cycling Resources, Featured
The morning started dry, but the Hot Spot Dot team ended up with wet heads and cold hands. Representatives from Burien Public Works Department, Urban Racks and WABI got together for a walk-through along SW 152nd. They discussed the locations for the bike racks coming...
Apr 5, 2013 | Bike Racks, Cycling, Featured
Very exciting news: WABI Burien has 41 bike racks in production, customized for the City of Burien, and they’ll be installed all over town! We’ve all been waiting a long time for this. WABI-ists have been working hard to see our city populated with bike...
Apr 4, 2013 | Cycling, Featured, Walking
We are people-powered in how we get things done (and hopefully how we get from A to B!). Behind-the-scenes of WABI efforts are a half dozen people that bring together quite a range of civic skills and experience. The “WABI-ists” are ardent cyclists and...
Mar 28, 2013 | Bike Racks, Bike/Ped Advocacy, City of Burien, Cycling, Cycling Resources, Featured
It doesn’t encourage people to ride their bikes into town to do their shopping and errands when there are few places to safely lock up their bikes when they get there! (It’s a good thing there are some small trees here and there.) In order to foster...
Mar 11, 2013 | Bike/Ped Advocacy, Cycling, Walking
Get ready. There’s something exciting coming to town. We WABI-ists have been fussing behind the scenes for months now, planning something so big that it will extend from one end of the city to the other. (Pretty fabulous! Just sayin’…) This will make both...
Jan 2, 2013 | Art Walks, Bike/Ped Advocacy, Bike/Ped Count, City of Burien, Cycling, Cycling Event, Cycling Resources, Featured, Health & Well-Being, Other Local Walks, Parks & Trails, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
Our new year is starting out with some beautiful days to get out on two feet and two wheels! Blue skies, sunshine and brisk, fresh air. Time for a nice walk or a ride. Happy New Year to all the WABI-ists… all of you that are involved or interested in WABI Burien,...
Dec 12, 2012 | Bike/Ped Advocacy, Cycling, Cycling Resources, Featured
Help Improve Bicycling in the Puget Sound Region! The Puget Sound Regional Council, together with researchers from the University of Washington’s Department of Urban Design and Planning, are working to better understand how to plan for the needs of bicyclists. You can...
Sep 17, 2012 | Bike/Ped Advocacy, Bike/Ped Count, City of Burien, Cycling, Cycling Resources, Featured, Walking
The Annual Bicycle and Pedestrian Count will be taken at locations throughout Washington State in nearly 40 jurisdictions, including Burien. Data collected from these counts will be used to monitor success in increasing bicycle and pedestrian travel as identified in...
Sep 6, 2012 | Cycling, Cycling Event, Featured, Health & Well-Being
The American Lung Association celebrates 30 years of cycling in Washington with its inaugural Ride Around the Sound bicycle ride on September 15 – a fantastic century ride around the scenic Puget Sound. There are 100, 88, 75 and 45 mile routes, plus a Family...
Aug 12, 2012 | Cycling, Cycling Event, Featured
Come get “creamed” for good causes! You haven’t laughed this hard or had this much fun in ages…really! It’s “good clean fun”, (except for the creamy mess left behind). The Pie Joust is basically a whipped cream splatter...
Aug 12, 2012 | Cycling, Cycling Event
Just a reminder that the Cycle the WAVE ride is coming up on Sunday, September 16, 2012. Have you registered? Have you picked your route and ride partner? Have you been training? Cycle the WAVE (Women Against Violence Everywhere), is a sponsored, non-competitive,...
Jun 18, 2012 | Cycling, Cycling Event
Many thanks to the B-Town Blog for reporting on and posting this video of WABI Burien’s Father’s Day Bike SaFaRi. “The ride started at the Wild Strawberry Festival in Town Square Park and looped north through quiet neighborhoods and parks for a...
Jun 13, 2012 | Cycling, Cycling Event, Featured
Cycle the WAVE (Women Against Violence Everywhere), is a sponsored, non-competitive, all-women’s cycling event, Sunday September 16th, 2012. It is a venue created for women of all ages and fitness levels to experience camaraderie, increase awareness of domestic...
Jun 13, 2012 | Cycling, Cycling Event, Featured
Take the family on a Father’s Day bike ride on the second Burien Bike SaFaRi of 2012, Sunday, June 17. The ride will follow a quiet, flat, 3.5 mile loop that connects Burien’s Town Square with several parks, community spaces, and schools to the north. A...
May 21, 2012 | Bike/Ped Advocacy, Cycling, Cycling Resources, Health & Well-Being
The Dutch Cycling Embassy facilitates cycling worldwide as the most modern, efficient and sustainable means of transportation by sharing their expertise and technology as the world’s number one cycling country. Watch their inspiring and informative video. It will...
May 13, 2012 | Cycling, Cycling Event, Featured
Friday May 18th is National Bike Day. Last year, over 20,000 people in the Seattle metro area took to the streets on bicycles, pedaling their way to work, school, and the store on Bike Day. For Bike Day this year, newly formed Walk/Bike Burien (WABI) is challenging...