Walk and Roll Bellingham

05/22/2026

Ski to Sea is back! And this year, there are more ways to than ever before to get to the finish line party at Marine Park while avoiding the traffic!

🚌 On Sunday, May 24, WTA Route 1 between Downtown Bellingham and the Fairhaven Amtrak Station will run every 10 minutes from 11am-5pm and every 15 minutes until 8pm. Enjoy the quick, scenic, direct route to Marine Park for just $1 (all riders under 18 are free). Parking downtown (all on-street parking and the Cornwall St and Railroad Ave garages) is free on Sundays - look for Route 1 at the WTA Downtown Station.

🚲 Bike to your nearest WTA bus stop, load your bike, and ride using WTA’s expanded service ~or~ bike directly to Marine Park and use Ski to Ski’s expanded, free bike valet (open 11am until the party wraps up)!

05/20/2026

Peer-reviewed studies: sharrows INCREASE danger to bicyclists. Painted lines offer no protection whatsoever (no reduction in fatalities) and actually lead to motor vehicles passing closer to cyclists (because the lines establish clear vehicle "territory"). Dooring is deadly, yet many bike lanes are immediately adjacent to the door opening radius of parked vehicles.

Every year, millions of cyclists ride inside painted bike lanes without a second thought. They see the markings, trust the lines, and assume someone checked ...

05/13/2026

"We can think about congestion not as a phenomenon in need of reduction but rather as an experience that should be optional. Congestion becomes optional if we provide good alternatives to driving. This would require a shift in funding away from highway expansion projects that have at best a short-term effect on congestion to alternatives such as transit, biking, and walking that give people a long-term way to avoid it. It would also require changes in land use patterns to improve the viability of these alternatives and that would, as a bonus, enable shorter driving trips. We would also need to make housing more affordable in these places, and one way to do that is to waste less land on roads and parking. ...

The congestion problem stems in part from the fact that cars are a spatially inefficient way to move people: each car requires considerable roadway and parking space but carries less than 1.5 people on average in the US. From a space efficiency standpoint, it would make sense to devote more road space to modes such as transit, biking, and walking that consume far less space per person moved."

Policymakers constantly suggest that we need to spend billions of dollars and bulldoze countless acres of land to fix traffic jams. But do we?

04/23/2026

Advocates successfully blocked the removal of DC’s 15th Street Bike Lane — setting a national example for how to preserve safe biking infrastructure.

04/12/2026

Calling all active transportation experts! What’s better on a bridge - one fat sidewalk or a medium sidewalk plus bike lanes? These are the two options for the new Glacier Creek Bridge in Glacier on Hwy 542.

WSDOT wants to hear your opinion on this topic. Head to the link in our bio to tell them what you think. Thank you!

04/11/2026

Hey Washington residents! You can now apply for Washington State Dept. of Transportation (WSDOT) ebike rebates. $300 and $1200 rebates available. Drawings for winners will be held monthly starting April 13th. Click the link in our bio for all the details.

03/26/2026

March 26, 2026Whatcom riders brace for WTA fare increase Mabaindu MbawaTransportationaccessibilityeducationpublic transitA pending fare increase is raising concerns for Whatcom Transportation Authority paratransit and student riders. (Amy Nelson / Salish Current) March 26, 2026Whatcom riders brace f...

03/21/2026

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03/20/2026

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03/19/2026