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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 12d

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.

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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 25d

🍫 🍪 Amidst all that's bad, at least we still have International Chocolate Day. 🍫 🍪

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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · Sep 6

Vertigo attack sidelined my plans for the day, which made me think of a couple of my blog posts on biking, time, and being in the moment.
bikestylelife.com/2011/09/14/b...
bikestylelife.com/2011/09/24/i...

#BikeSky #productivity #mindfulness #BikeTime #attitude #BicyclesChangeLives

Biking as Downtime and other Musings on Overproductivity

Like many people I know, I have a slight tendency to overdo. The world offers up lots of kudos for this. In fact, I once won an award you might attribute to overdoing, in a way (the 2010 YWCA …

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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · Sep 3

A back-to-school post: some homework if you're interested in working for better biking and waking in your state. bikestylelife.com/2024/12/01/a...
#AdvocacyMatters #transportation #ActiveTransport #activism #MobilityJustice #BikeSky #walking #accessibility #legislature

Actions You Can Take for Active Transportation: Homework

Being an advocate or activist can feel so, so exhausting. You phone and email and call. You show up for the events. You donate and volunteer. Change is slow, progress incremental, sometimes you fee…

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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · Aug 16

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

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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · Aug 31

Some of what I'm doing to turn apples into delicious preserved foods, and some lessons learned about overdoing on the food repurposing front biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2025/08/my-c....

#FoodInJars #CanningSeason #PreservingFood #jam #jelly #preserves #RecipeOfTheDay #TodaysRecipe #recipes #canning

My Circular Economy of Apples

Personal blog with heavy doses of bicycling, public policy, social justice, and family life.

biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com

Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · Aug 31

It is! So great with some white cheddar on crackers, or on muffins or toast or.... just so good.

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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · Aug 30

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

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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · Aug 30

I did a triathlon today! Well, my version of one anyway. bikestylelife.com/2023/06/11/c...

#triathlon #walking #cycling #yoga #BikeEverywhere #ChooseAdventure

Choose Your Own Adventure: Creating your Version of an Athlon

You know the word as a suffix after some prefix telling you how many events are included (if you remember your ancient Greek prefixes, that is) or something else about the competition: biathlon, du…

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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · Aug 22

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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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · Aug 22

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

content.govdelivery.com

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Grist @grist.org · Aug 21

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✨ Support our reporting by hitting “follow” — it matters.

#Climate #Politics #Conservation #GreenSky

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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · Aug 16

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

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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · Aug 15

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

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · Aug 14

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

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · Aug 14

Oslo: 0 people walking or biking were killed in 2019. "Oslo has implemented 50 kilometers of bike lanes, removed parking spaces equivalent to 4,250 cars from its streets, installed around 500 speed humps, and lowered speed limits"

Transformational change is possible with bold leadership.

How Oslo Achieved Zero Pedestrian and Bicycle Fatalities, and How Others Can Apply What Worked |

Oslo's City Ring Road after multimodal safety improvements. Photo courtesy of City of Oslo, Norway In 2015, the City of Oslo, Norway, made a commitment after years of rising transportation injuries to...

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Vlad @vmois.dev · Aug 14

The primary reason for road wear is weight.

Modern cars weight much more. EVs are even heavier.

Other modes of transportation (e.g. bicycles), smaller cars and less sprawl (less roads to maintain) will fix those issues.

American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · Aug 14

This wouldn't be such an unsustainable, recurring problem with fewer lane miles and more options in efficient, safe, affordable, and accessible transportation options for people in a city.

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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · Aug 12

Peak August: Forecast for 96 at our house today. Cooling trend starts tomorrow, thankfully. Good day to revisit my roundup of August poems biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2024/08/a-ye....

A Year of Poems: August

Personal blog with heavy doses of bicycling, public policy, social justice, and family life.

biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com

Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · Aug 11

When you post only a video on your page you leave out everyone who can't watch it (you didn't provide an audio description of the visuals in the video, I bet, + no transcript). Plus everyone who would rather read than watch because it's faster [raises hand].
#MoveEquity #accessibility #ProTip

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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · Aug 8

I just read that August 8 is Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day.

This is the holiday we all need. Or is it just me? No, no, I'm sure it isn't.

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Ken McLeod @kenmcld.bsky.social · Aug 7

If the idea of robot vehicles exempt from safety standards worries you

Then you should also be worried that the safety standards do not include any standards for the safety of people outside of vehicles to begin with

Pedestrian Automatic Emergency Braking will be a standard in 2029, hopefully

Reuters @reuters.com · Aug 6

US issues exemption for self-driving Zoox vehicles, closes probe reut.rs/4m5qLB6

US issues exemption for self-driving Zoox vehicles, closes probe

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Wednesday it has certified Amazon.com's self-driving unit Zoox vehicles for demonstration use and closed a probe into whether they had complied with federal requirements.

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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · Aug 7

Delighted to read this news from my former hometown. Way to go, Spokane! Thanks, @lisaforprogress.bsky.social, Jon Snyder, Kitty Klitzke, Paul Dillon. Proud to know leaders doing this work to make streets work better for everyone.
www.krem.com/article/news...
#CompleteStreets #RoadSafety

Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown signs updated 'Complete Street' ordinance into law Wednesday

The updated ordinance also aims to save money on future improvements by incorporating walking and biking infrastructure into existing and upcoming street projects.

www.krem.com

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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · Aug 2

THIS. Voice to text on my Samsung Android thinks I want to start a new sentence whenever I say "so". Right in line with @humantransit.bsky.social comment about not understanding use of the comma. Plus it doesn't add a space, phone thinks it's a weird nonexistent website that ends in .so, makes link.

Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · Aug 2

To understand public skepticism toward the tech oligarchs, consider the dictation software that comes loaded on our phones, an iPhone in my case.

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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · Aug 2

Rereading poem "On Our Eleventh Anniversary" by Susan Browne" www.americanlifeinpoetry.org/columns/deta.... What happened: A 5YO biked ~25mi/40km from one city to another. Arrived safe and sound. Imagine.
#SafeRoutesNow #FreeRangeKids #KidsDeserveIt #BikePoems #BikeSky #transportation #VisionZero

On Our Eleventh Anniversary by Susan Browne

Sometimes I wonder at my wife's forbearance. She's heard me tell the same stories dozens of times, and she still politely laughs when she should. Here's a poem by Susan Browne, of California, that tre...

www.americanlifeinpoetry.org

Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · Aug 1

As we leave July, my look back a year ago at some favorite posts from this month over the years biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2024/07/reru.... Surprise! I write a lot about riding my bike.

#BikeSky #BikeEverywhere #BicyclesChangeLives

Reruns: July Posts Worth Revisiting

Personal blog with heavy doses of bicycling, public policy, social justice, and family life.

biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com

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