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Barb Chamberlain
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Active transportation policy and other things. Always doing work I believe in. Need more naps and fewer meetings but here we are.
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the big mac.
November 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
AASHTO annual meeting Council on Active Transportation. Toks Omashakin, former chair of the CAT and now head of CalSTA, sharing his thoughts. "We're in the mobility business--not the infrastructure business. When we change that prism, priority becomes people first."
#transportation #AASHTO
November 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Civic Participant To-Do List:

- Check local election results. ✔️
- Feel good about being a regular voter, especially when turnout is low. ✔️
- Donate to my local food bank. ✔️ (setting up a recurring donation)

What's on your list? Don't stop after Election Day.
November 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Where I'll be Wed. night: On stage with ImprovOly at Wild Child in downtown Olympia. Love performing with my friends! www.improvoly.com/public-calen...
#OlympiaWA #OlympiaEvents #OlyWA #ImprovComedy #Improv #Comedy #LaughOutLoud #WhoseLineIsItAnyway
Improv Comedy in Olympia Washington — Improv Oly
Show at Wild Child on Wednesday, November 5. Doors at 6:30, show 7-8:30. All ages, content is PG-13.
www.improvoly.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:30 AM
What I did all day yesterday. And by all day I mean I started at 9:30am and finally sat down at 8:15pm, with one short break to make and eat a sandwich somewhere around 2-ish.

biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2025/11/when...

#FoodInJars #FoodPreservation #Canning #recipes #food #jam #jelly #cooking
When Life Hands You a Defrosted Freezer, Make Jam
Personal blog with heavy doses of bicycling, public policy, social justice, and family life.
biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Labu-BOO! Remember that the scariest thing on the road tonight should be a child dressed as a pop culture reference you’re too old to understand.

Be extra cautious driving today, and keep an eye out for trick-or-treaters. Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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‼️WEBINAR: Tools for Change – Designing Streets that Put Children First

Nov. 4, 12pm EST

Discover how thoughtful street design can transform cities into inclusive, vibrant, and safe spaces for children and communities.

Register: buff.ly/Yi7LINU
October 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
My husband's nickname for me, which he thinks of as my superpower and possibly my Halloween costume, is Supermodal. Today: Walk to bus stop. Take 2 Rapid Rides. Amtrak Cascades to Olympia. Car passenger home. Not the most modes I've ever used in one day, though. How many modes will you use today?
October 31, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Given the Link light rail's rapid expansion, Seattle now has the fastest transit ridership growth of any major US metro area, beating out the continued recovery of DC
October 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
A collection of poems about September to rest your mind from all the rest of the things. biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2024/09/a-ye...
A Year of Poems: September
Personal blog with heavy doses of bicycling, public policy, social justice, and family life.
biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com
September 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
🍫 🍪 Amidst all that's bad, at least we still have International Chocolate Day. 🍫 🍪
September 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Public comment time! WA Comprehensive Climate Action Plan waclimatepartnership.org/en/. How well do you think it addresses opportunities for active transportation? Many topics.
#WAClimate #ClimateResilience #Planning #ActiveTransport #cycling #walkability #CompleteStreets #EBikes #environment
Home - Washington Climate Partnership
The Washington Climate Partnership facilitates collaborative climate action planning by tribes, territories, and jurisdictions in Washington. The program is funded through the USEPA's Climate Pollutio...
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August 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
We're entering the season for these recipes or others like them. What are your favorite ways to use or preserve apples and pears?
biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2024/09/appl...
biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2024/09/pear...

#FoodInJars #CanningSeason #PreservingFood #jam #RecipeOfTheDay #TodaysRecipe
Apples, Apples, Apples!
Personal blog with heavy doses of bicycling, public policy, social justice, and family life.
biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com
August 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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E-bike lending libraries! Making walking/biking better on current/old highways! WSDOT Active Transportation Walk + Roll E-News Special Edition! content.govdelivery.com/accounts/WAD...
#WABikes #WAWalks #ActiveTransport #infrastructure #EBikes #BicyclesChangeLives #BikeLibraries #WSDOTActive
Walk and Roll: WSDOT Active Transportation - Special Edition - August 22, 2025 - Web Version
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August 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
E-bike lending libraries! Making walking/biking better on current/old highways! WSDOT Active Transportation Walk + Roll E-News Special Edition! content.govdelivery.com/accounts/WAD...
#WABikes #WAWalks #ActiveTransport #infrastructure #EBikes #BicyclesChangeLives #BikeLibraries #WSDOTActive
Walk and Roll: WSDOT Active Transportation - Special Edition - August 22, 2025 - Web Version
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August 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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August 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Public comment time! WA Comprehensive Climate Action Plan waclimatepartnership.org/en/. How well do you think it addresses opportunities for active transportation? Many topics.
#WAClimate #ClimateResilience #Planning #ActiveTransport #cycling #walkability #CompleteStreets #EBikes #environment
Home - Washington Climate Partnership
The Washington Climate Partnership facilitates collaborative climate action planning by tribes, territories, and jurisdictions in Washington. The program is funded through the USEPA's Climate Pollutio...
waclimatepartnership.org
August 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Thank you yet again, Wayback Machine, for access to federal resources. This time: web.archive.org/web/20241128...
Achieving stated federal goals for pedestrian safety suggests access to a page of information such as this, doesn't it?
#transportation #infrastructure #cycling #walking #RoadSafety
Expand and Improve Bicycle and Pedestrian Infrastructure
Expanding and improving bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure means ensuring that a network of infrastructure is in place to make bicycling or walking viable modes of travel. It also means ensuring th...
web.archive.org
August 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Seville: "Cycling has increased 11-fold in Seville in the space of a few years. Is this proof that any city can get lots of people riding by building an ambitious network of connected, segregated bike lanes?"

Transformational change is possible with bold leadership.
How Seville transformed itself into the cycling capital of southern Europe
Spain remains far from a paradise for bikes – yet cycling has increased 11-fold in Seville in the space of a few years. Is this proof that any city can get lots of people riding by building an ambitio...
www.theguardian.com
August 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM