Megan Ramey
@bikabout.com
Safe Routes to School Manager 4 Hood River. Bike 🚲 travel writer & map 🗺 maker. Scheming on bike 🛏️ hostel in Columbia Gorge.
Latent demand for #saferoutestoschool is real.
When planning this sidepath for middle schoolers, we could not have predicted a group of 12 independent elementary students would use it to walk to swim practice after school.
Build it and EVERYBODY will come.
When planning this sidepath for middle schoolers, we could not have predicted a group of 12 independent elementary students would use it to walk to swim practice after school.
Build it and EVERYBODY will come.
January 13, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Latent demand for #saferoutestoschool is real.
When planning this sidepath for middle schoolers, we could not have predicted a group of 12 independent elementary students would use it to walk to swim practice after school.
Build it and EVERYBODY will come.
When planning this sidepath for middle schoolers, we could not have predicted a group of 12 independent elementary students would use it to walk to swim practice after school.
Build it and EVERYBODY will come.
Merry Christmas from the driftless area of Wisconsin
December 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Merry Christmas from the driftless area of Wisconsin
Another atmospheric river begins in the Pacific Northwest.
It's a good day to let someone else drive. My bike is on bus the CAT bus to Portland.
#transit
It's a good day to let someone else drive. My bike is on bus the CAT bus to Portland.
#transit
December 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Another atmospheric river begins in the Pacific Northwest.
It's a good day to let someone else drive. My bike is on bus the CAT bus to Portland.
#transit
It's a good day to let someone else drive. My bike is on bus the CAT bus to Portland.
#transit
Forming a mental map is a critical aspect of independent mobility for children. The club members learn this subversively as we take walking and biking adventures around town.
December 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Forming a mental map is a critical aspect of independent mobility for children. The club members learn this subversively as we take walking and biking adventures around town.
I love when puppies 🐶 ride transit.
This guy was living his best life on CAT 😺 bus taking in the views of the Columbia Gorge.
This guy was living his best life on CAT 😺 bus taking in the views of the Columbia Gorge.
December 12, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I love when puppies 🐶 ride transit.
This guy was living his best life on CAT 😺 bus taking in the views of the Columbia Gorge.
This guy was living his best life on CAT 😺 bus taking in the views of the Columbia Gorge.
3 ✨ secrets to success in Safe Routes to School:
1- get kids in the street
2- cheap demonstrations
3- free bikes for kids
Please steal these ideas.
#saferoutestoschool
1- get kids in the street
2- cheap demonstrations
3- free bikes for kids
Please steal these ideas.
#saferoutestoschool
December 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
3 ✨ secrets to success in Safe Routes to School:
1- get kids in the street
2- cheap demonstrations
3- free bikes for kids
Please steal these ideas.
#saferoutestoschool
1- get kids in the street
2- cheap demonstrations
3- free bikes for kids
Please steal these ideas.
#saferoutestoschool
15 year tradition of procuring a 🎄 Christmas Tree by bike ✔️
The 1942 @newyorker.com cover was way ahead of its time!
#treebybike #treebybike2025 #urbanarrow #carryshitolympics #cargobike #ebike
The 1942 @newyorker.com cover was way ahead of its time!
#treebybike #treebybike2025 #urbanarrow #carryshitolympics #cargobike #ebike
December 8, 2025 at 1:58 AM
15 year tradition of procuring a 🎄 Christmas Tree by bike ✔️
The 1942 @newyorker.com cover was way ahead of its time!
#treebybike #treebybike2025 #urbanarrow #carryshitolympics #cargobike #ebike
The 1942 @newyorker.com cover was way ahead of its time!
#treebybike #treebybike2025 #urbanarrow #carryshitolympics #cargobike #ebike
"Children in the community with light traffic created far more detailed maps...of their neighborhood street network that practically could have been handed to people asking for directions," Bruce Appleyard-2017.
☝🏼from #LifeAfterCars, now a bestselling book 📖 in America by @thewaroncars.bsky.social.
☝🏼from #LifeAfterCars, now a bestselling book 📖 in America by @thewaroncars.bsky.social.
December 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
"Children in the community with light traffic created far more detailed maps...of their neighborhood street network that practically could have been handed to people asking for directions," Bruce Appleyard-2017.
☝🏼from #LifeAfterCars, now a bestselling book 📖 in America by @thewaroncars.bsky.social.
☝🏼from #LifeAfterCars, now a bestselling book 📖 in America by @thewaroncars.bsky.social.
Kids of all abilities, whether they are in a wheelchair, skateboard, rollerskate, bike or walk, should have a choice to create their own play without their parents.
That's why I do what I do.
@getaroundcabooltur.bsky.social podcast: getaroundcaboolture.au/megan-ramey-...
That's why I do what I do.
@getaroundcabooltur.bsky.social podcast: getaroundcaboolture.au/megan-ramey-...
December 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Kids of all abilities, whether they are in a wheelchair, skateboard, rollerskate, bike or walk, should have a choice to create their own play without their parents.
That's why I do what I do.
@getaroundcabooltur.bsky.social podcast: getaroundcaboolture.au/megan-ramey-...
That's why I do what I do.
@getaroundcabooltur.bsky.social podcast: getaroundcaboolture.au/megan-ramey-...
Greetings from beautiful Bend.
We are grateful for spending our 20th annual Friendsgiving dating back to Madison life. It's pretty amazing that we all ended up in Oregon by way of MA, MO and CA.
We are grateful for spending our 20th annual Friendsgiving dating back to Madison life. It's pretty amazing that we all ended up in Oregon by way of MA, MO and CA.
November 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Greetings from beautiful Bend.
We are grateful for spending our 20th annual Friendsgiving dating back to Madison life. It's pretty amazing that we all ended up in Oregon by way of MA, MO and CA.
We are grateful for spending our 20th annual Friendsgiving dating back to Madison life. It's pretty amazing that we all ended up in Oregon by way of MA, MO and CA.
This ADA kayak and paddle board launch in Bend's Miller's Landing is super cool and right off the major bike route.
Now I have a goal to do a float and bike shuttle this summer.
Now I have a goal to do a float and bike shuttle this summer.
November 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This ADA kayak and paddle board launch in Bend's Miller's Landing is super cool and right off the major bike route.
Now I have a goal to do a float and bike shuttle this summer.
Now I have a goal to do a float and bike shuttle this summer.
"It's forced conformity. That's what's killing the kids. That's the real monster," Eddie Munson ❤️
Bike Bus kids defy conformity, thanks to @coachbalto.bsky.social.
Season 5 @strangerthings.bsky.social, let's go!
#bikebus
Bike Bus kids defy conformity, thanks to @coachbalto.bsky.social.
Season 5 @strangerthings.bsky.social, let's go!
#bikebus
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
"It's forced conformity. That's what's killing the kids. That's the real monster," Eddie Munson ❤️
Bike Bus kids defy conformity, thanks to @coachbalto.bsky.social.
Season 5 @strangerthings.bsky.social, let's go!
#bikebus
Bike Bus kids defy conformity, thanks to @coachbalto.bsky.social.
Season 5 @strangerthings.bsky.social, let's go!
#bikebus
My background in fashion and bikes collided when I got to curate the Stranger Things Bike Bus costumes.
No time machine needed—we can give kids the freedom we remember: friends to roam with, and the wheels to get them there.
7/end
No time machine needed—we can give kids the freedom we remember: friends to roam with, and the wheels to get them there.
7/end
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
My background in fashion and bikes collided when I got to curate the Stranger Things Bike Bus costumes.
No time machine needed—we can give kids the freedom we remember: friends to roam with, and the wheels to get them there.
7/end
No time machine needed—we can give kids the freedom we remember: friends to roam with, and the wheels to get them there.
7/end
I was the epitome of an 80s child. My parents worked full time and it was necessary for me to transport myself and find my own play.
Stranger Things is a powerful memory tug AND a challenge in my Safe Routes to School work to give this generation the free-range childhood that I had.
6x
Stranger Things is a powerful memory tug AND a challenge in my Safe Routes to School work to give this generation the free-range childhood that I had.
6x
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I was the epitome of an 80s child. My parents worked full time and it was necessary for me to transport myself and find my own play.
Stranger Things is a powerful memory tug AND a challenge in my Safe Routes to School work to give this generation the free-range childhood that I had.
6x
Stranger Things is a powerful memory tug AND a challenge in my Safe Routes to School work to give this generation the free-range childhood that I had.
6x
Perhaps, most importantly...
"the show has tapped into a very specific type of nostalgia—leaving viewers reminiscing about a time when kids roamed their neighborhoods on bikes, by themselves" @awalkerinla.bsky.social, @curbed.com.
Article: archive.curbed.com/2017/10/25/1...
5/x
"the show has tapped into a very specific type of nostalgia—leaving viewers reminiscing about a time when kids roamed their neighborhoods on bikes, by themselves" @awalkerinla.bsky.social, @curbed.com.
Article: archive.curbed.com/2017/10/25/1...
5/x
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Perhaps, most importantly...
"the show has tapped into a very specific type of nostalgia—leaving viewers reminiscing about a time when kids roamed their neighborhoods on bikes, by themselves" @awalkerinla.bsky.social, @curbed.com.
Article: archive.curbed.com/2017/10/25/1...
5/x
"the show has tapped into a very specific type of nostalgia—leaving viewers reminiscing about a time when kids roamed their neighborhoods on bikes, by themselves" @awalkerinla.bsky.social, @curbed.com.
Article: archive.curbed.com/2017/10/25/1...
5/x
"1983. This is science fiction not powered by a vision of the future but a longing for the past."
Both the Bike Bus and the #80sWalkRollClub in Hood River were inspired by that longing for independence, adventure and community through biking.
Article: www.npr.org/2016/07/27/4...
4/x
Both the Bike Bus and the #80sWalkRollClub in Hood River were inspired by that longing for independence, adventure and community through biking.
Article: www.npr.org/2016/07/27/4...
4/x
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
"1983. This is science fiction not powered by a vision of the future but a longing for the past."
Both the Bike Bus and the #80sWalkRollClub in Hood River were inspired by that longing for independence, adventure and community through biking.
Article: www.npr.org/2016/07/27/4...
4/x
Both the Bike Bus and the #80sWalkRollClub in Hood River were inspired by that longing for independence, adventure and community through biking.
Article: www.npr.org/2016/07/27/4...
4/x
"the kids set out as a pack of two-wheeled adventurers to save their way of life."
Inverse article: www.inverse.com/article/2015...
3x
Inverse article: www.inverse.com/article/2015...
3x
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
"the kids set out as a pack of two-wheeled adventurers to save their way of life."
Inverse article: www.inverse.com/article/2015...
3x
Inverse article: www.inverse.com/article/2015...
3x
"@strangerthings.bsky.social remind us...when the only care in the world you had was whether you could go ride bikes with your friends after dinner... 🚲 have long preceded other means of mechanical conveyance, and have always represented a sense of emancipation."
Sean Hutchinson, @inverse.com
2/x
Sean Hutchinson, @inverse.com
2/x
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
"@strangerthings.bsky.social remind us...when the only care in the world you had was whether you could go ride bikes with your friends after dinner... 🚲 have long preceded other means of mechanical conveyance, and have always represented a sense of emancipation."
Sean Hutchinson, @inverse.com
2/x
Sean Hutchinson, @inverse.com
2/x
Stranger Things #BikeBus was unveiled last weekend in anticipation of the series finale roll-out beginning on Thanksgiving 🦃
🧵 on why this partnership is pure magic ✨ 1/x
🧵 on why this partnership is pure magic ✨ 1/x
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Stranger Things #BikeBus was unveiled last weekend in anticipation of the series finale roll-out beginning on Thanksgiving 🦃
🧵 on why this partnership is pure magic ✨ 1/x
🧵 on why this partnership is pure magic ✨ 1/x
"Can [your 1st grader] travel alone in the neighborhood (4-8 blocks) to the store, school, playground or to a friend’s home.”
Psychologist, Louise Bates Ames, book "Your 6YO: Loving and Defiant" in '79, on childhood development.
Life After Cars continues to surprise me. @thewaroncars.bsky.social
Psychologist, Louise Bates Ames, book "Your 6YO: Loving and Defiant" in '79, on childhood development.
Life After Cars continues to surprise me. @thewaroncars.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
"Can [your 1st grader] travel alone in the neighborhood (4-8 blocks) to the store, school, playground or to a friend’s home.”
Psychologist, Louise Bates Ames, book "Your 6YO: Loving and Defiant" in '79, on childhood development.
Life After Cars continues to surprise me. @thewaroncars.bsky.social
Psychologist, Louise Bates Ames, book "Your 6YO: Loving and Defiant" in '79, on childhood development.
Life After Cars continues to surprise me. @thewaroncars.bsky.social
For our final Ruby Bridges walk to school day at Parkdale, we gathered under a looming Mount Hood for hot chocolate and walked through some spectacular golden light.
And look at those awesome @cleverhood.bsky.social jackets for our rain library thanks to @saferoutespartners.bsky.social!
And look at those awesome @cleverhood.bsky.social jackets for our rain library thanks to @saferoutespartners.bsky.social!
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
For our final Ruby Bridges walk to school day at Parkdale, we gathered under a looming Mount Hood for hot chocolate and walked through some spectacular golden light.
And look at those awesome @cleverhood.bsky.social jackets for our rain library thanks to @saferoutespartners.bsky.social!
And look at those awesome @cleverhood.bsky.social jackets for our rain library thanks to @saferoutespartners.bsky.social!