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Barb Chamberlain

@barbchamberlain.bsky.social
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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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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 19m
Beautiful fall ride this morning to the Cooper Jones Active Transportation Safety Council. Always fun to park at bike racks shaped like bikes. #BikeEverywhere #BicyclesChangeLives
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Closes TOMORROW Sept. 30: WSDOT Active Transportation Division TPS1 position. Essential support for our school-based bike safety education, e-bike rebate vouchers, and e-bike lending library programs. +1 for bilingual English/Spanish www.governmentjobs.com/careers/wash... #WSDOTActive #TranspoJobs
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
WSDOT Active Transportation Division wants YOU! Or someone you know, preferably with bilingual English-Spanish skills, with great eye for detail to support administration of our e-bike and bicycle education programs. Please repost to amplify! www.governmentjobs.com/careers/wash... #WSDOTActive
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I want to give a shoutout to work by Anna Zivarts and her Disability Mobility Initiative for highlighting the need for safe accessibility at these locations and others around the state. #SafetyOverSpeed #accessibility #walking #walkability #SafeSystemApproach #SafeSystemSpeeds #transportation
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Who drove 71mph westbound I-90 ramp to crosswalk?! Or 68mph at eastbound ramp crosswalk?! Raised crosswalks make a big difference for safety. Great work by colleagues in @wsdot.wa.gov NW Region! wsdotblog.blogspot.com/2026/08/judk... #transportation #SafetyOverSpeed #DriverNotCar #CrashNotAccident
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Judkins Park Station Study: How Recent Crossing Improvements Have Lowered Speeds
The WSDOT Blog
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Poetry plus a win for habitat. What could be better? biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2026/08/poet...
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Poetry and Place
Personal blog with heavy doses of bicycling, public policy, social justice, and family life.
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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I think you mean you made something amazing lol
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This makes me want to go to Victoria! I haven't been there since 2018 on a bike trip (bikestylelife.com/2018/06/01/d...). Next year's World Road Congress will be held there. I'm on a PIARC technical committee and hope to be able to attend.
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It wasn't Jimothy on my back fence that night. biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2026/08/elde...
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Elderberry Jam JK Jelly Because Raccoons
Personal blog with heavy doses of bicycling, public policy, social justice, and family life.
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Fietser Brandon @americanfietser.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
E-bikes act as a band-aid on sprawl and hostile infrastructure. *"plaster" for my friends in England.
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Words to live by. Poets agree! biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2025/02/im-c... #CoffeeBreak
Vintage style lettering on a sign that reads "First I drink coffee. Then I do the things." To the left of the words, a line drawing of a coffee cup with a happy face and steam wafting up from it.
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Call it a hobby, call it the result of growing up with Depression-era parents who grew a big garden, preserved a lot of food. Either way I do a lot of canning every year. Recent recipes: biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2026/08/gree... and biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2026/08/heat....
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Green Tomato Caponata Recipe
Personal blog with heavy doses of bicycling, public policy, social justice, and family life.
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Love seeing these results from my former hometown! Go (by bus) Spokane!
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Reorder: flexibility + what kind of attention it requires + low cost over speed. #1: Little Feat. Run DMC. Bombay Bicycle Club. The Bicycle Thief. Chicago (originally Chicago Transit Authority). Manhattan Transfer. Grand Funk Railroad. For sheer breadth, OK Go. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTAA...
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OK Go - Here It Goes Again (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by OKGoVEVO
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
OK, so it's funny to ask this Q here, but my Mastodon instance admin announced they're closing down and I need to move to another one. What's yours and what do you like about it?
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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Bus stop provisions and placement as values statements.
Chapel Hill Transit bus stop without shelter, sidewalk access to the stop or waiting area. Also, no safe crossing of a road to get to or from the stop in Carrboro, NC
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Ken McLeod @kenmcld.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"When properly regulated, [Automated Enforcement Technology] does not pose the same threats to privacy as license-plate-reader surveillance" "AETs are designed solely to capture information on cars that commit specific moving violations" taking photos only when a camera-enforceable violation occurs
Part of a table showing the differences between automated traffic enforcement and license plate reader surveillance
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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Literally Apple and Android could end the majority of distracted driving tomorrow simply by locking out all but a handful of apps when it detects the phone moving at a certain speed and held at a certain orientation.
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
In/near Olympia? We have a great speed mentoring workshop for WTS Aug. 4. Still room if you want to register! www.wtsinternational.org/events/wts-s... #WomenInTransport #WomenLead #transportation #OlympiaWA
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WTS South Sound Speed Mentoring | WTS
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Equal rights for others doesn't mean fewer rights for you. It's not pie. -- Seen on a sticker
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Fietser Brandon @americanfietser.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Riding to the farmer's market, having an enjoyable face to face interaction with your baby, and enjoying the beautiful weather. Cars don't deliver this freedom.
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
How many of my fellow transpo nerds also love poetry? How many of my fellow poetry lovers can go for some transportation-themed poems? One of my round-ups: bikestylelife.com/2023/03/18/s...
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“Safe passage through countless intersections”: A Baker’s Dozen of Transportation Poems
Transportation, in my daily work, is a means to an end. It isn’t usually a thing done for its own sake—it’s how we get where we need to go. “Travel” might be a better word f…
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
You need this thread. Thank you @bethsawin.bsky.social. #multisolving
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
well that was quick
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Dutch Cycling Embassy @dutchcycling.nl · 05/07/2026
The Dutch lead the world in residential bike parking, and it's not by accident. Municipalities have spent 20+ years building programs that put certified, secure bike hangars on residential streets at scale. How the model works, and why cities everywhere are looking to replicate it: buff.ly/EFkQaiX
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
My vacationing self appreciates this piece from the NeuroLeadership Institute. Why not take a REAL lunch break today? www.neuroleadership.com/articles/wer...
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We’re Doing Downtime Wrong
To perform at our best, our brains need rest — but downtime isn’t what we think.
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Learn from the past. Respect the law of consequences. Be aware of your perspective. Count on the surprises. --Octavia Butler, "A Few Rules for Predicting the Future" commongood.cc/reader/a-few...
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A Few Rules For Predicting The Future by Octavia E. Butler
Octavia E. Butler Octavia Butler was an author of moving and prophetic science fiction novels. She wrote an essay in 2000 for Essence Magazine that teaches us the capacity we have to understand the fu...
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Happy Solstice! Some poetry for you: biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2024/06/summ...
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Summer Solstice Readings
Personal blog with heavy doses of bicycling, public policy, social justice, and family life.
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Another tragedy www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/0.... And yet another story in which a vehicle did things all by itself. It struck him, it fled the scene, it continued traveling north without stopping. Do better, reporters. #DriverNotCar #CrashNotAccident #ZeroTrafficDeaths #media #WordsMatter
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Bicyclist killed in hit-and-run in Columbia River Gorge
The crash happened on the Washington side of the gorge, near Maryhill.
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I just got to show the Tom Holland Lip Sync Battle to someone who had never seen it before. What treat! You know the rules. youtu.be/SgxEnEzJhBA?...
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Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland 'Ride Wit Me' & more...
YouTube video by Lip Sync Battle
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Cool Pedestrian Dignity Civic Action Zine project with @jonathonstalls.bsky.social, deadline June 19 docs.google.com/forms/d/1iLM.... #PedestrianDignity #walking #walkability #accessibility #transportation
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
What I do when I'm not doing transpo policy? Improv, baby! Next show May 6 at Wild Child, family-friendly venue in downtown Olympia. Come laugh at/with my friends and me! www.improvoly.com/public-calen... #ImprovOly #OlyWA #ImprovComedy #WhoseLine
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improvOly Show — Improv Oly
Show at Wild Child on Wednesday, November 5. Doors at 6:30, show 7-8:30. All ages, content is PG-13.
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Streetsblog USA @usa.streetsblog.org · 24/04/2026
Tom Flood, Grant Ennis and Brent Toderian of the Urban Truth Collective discuss pushing back on falsehoods and conspiracies through positive messaging around cities.
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Talking Headways Podcast: The Urban Truth Collective — Streetsblog USA
Tom Flood, Grant Ennis and Brent Toderian of the Urban Truth Collective discuss pushing back on falsehoods and conspiracies.
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Vision Zero Network @visionzeronet.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Join us TOMORROW to learn about how your community can leverage this year's round of funding to advance #VisionZero. We'll cover important, new elements of the program & strategies for crafting strong proposals. Register now: visionzeronetwork.org/upcoming-web...
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
What I do when I'm not doing transpo policy? Improv, baby! Next show May 6 at Wild Child, family-friendly venue in downtown Olympia. Come laugh at/with my friends and me! www.improvoly.com/public-calen... #ImprovOly #OlyWA #ImprovComedy #WhoseLine
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improvOly Show — Improv Oly
Show at Wild Child on Wednesday, November 5. Doors at 6:30, show 7-8:30. All ages, content is PG-13.
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
1st WE-bike rebate selections are MONDAY APRIL 13 so if you, your friends or family are thinking of applying the sooner you submit your pre-application the more selection rounds you will be entered into. Monthly drawings! #WSDOTActive #EBikes #BicyclesChangeLives #WABikes #BikeWA #Bikes4Climate
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Love seeing mentions of #WSDOTActive @cascade.org Let's Go program in the wild! 2025 legislative report has stats pg. 22 in wsdot.wa.gov/sites/defaul.... This year's report (December) will have even bigger numbers. #BicyclesChangeLives #KidsBike #KidsDeserveIt #SafeRoutesNow #BikeEverywhere
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Fun quiz from @bikeleague.org. I fit into multiple types; luckily you can take it more than once. test-test-o.my.canva.site/what-kind-of... Ref to zompoc in text at the end takes me back to my blog post bikestylelife.com/2018/10/28/1.... #BicyclesChangeLives #BikeEverywhere #BikeLife
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What Kind of Bike Are You? (mobile)
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
IT’S BACK! Applications are NOW OPEN for e-bike rebates through WE-Bike, Washington’s statewide e-bike rebate program. ebikerebate.wsdot-sites.com Apply any time 3/30/26-3/29/27. Monthly drawings. #WSDOTActive #BicyclesChangeLives #EBikes #BikeLove #BikeEverywhere #Bicycles #Cycling #BikeShops
Graphic in various shades of green has a turquoise ebike in the middle of the outline of Washington state, with gears of various sizes and shades of green around the outside the state. Text at top: Apply for e-bike rebates! Text below the state: Applications open March 30. Logo bottom left, WSDOT Active Transportation Division. Logo bottom right, Washington Climate Commitment Act.
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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Chaucer: "Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licóur Of which vertú engendred is the flour" T.S. Eliot: "April is the cruelest month" Poetry nerds: FIGHTT!!!!!!
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
EXPLORE & SHARE OUR POSTERS! As we get closer to releasing our first BIG campaign, we’ll keep releasing our “quick hit” posters, and we hope you’ll help us make them viral. Repost/quote-post our posts sharing them, or include them in your OWN posts and ping us! www.urbantruthcollective.com/content
“We could never do THAT is OUR city!” 

Leadership doesn’t make excuses.“Speed wasn’t a factor.”

Speed is ALWAYS a factor.“If we don’t build housing to solve homelessness, we don’t really want to solve homelessness.”Not density OR trees, density AND trees.”

Better cities are climate action.

All posters are ads by the Urban Truth Collective
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
"The right to safe, free, and joyful movement in the world": Dr. Destiny Thomas at the Bike Walk Roll Summit gives us a vision of what designing for the future we want (conference theme) must include, and a history lesson on trauma embedded in pavement.
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BarryJT @barryjt.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission) did a study from 2017-2023. They found 193 fatalities and 87,400 injuries related to ebikes. In the same period, there were roughly 280,000 traffic fatalities and 15 million injuries on our roads. But yeah, let's make more laws about bicycles. 1/
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
IT’S BACK! Applications are NOW OPEN for e-bike rebates through WE-Bike, Washington’s statewide e-bike rebate program. ebikerebate.wsdot-sites.com Apply any time 3/30/26-3/29/27. Monthly drawings. #WSDOTActive #BicyclesChangeLives #EBikes #BikeLove #BikeEverywhere #Bicycles #Cycling #BikeShops
Graphic in various shades of green has a turquoise ebike in the middle of the outline of Washington state, with gears of various sizes and shades of green around the outside the state. Text at top: Apply for e-bike rebates! Text below the state: Applications open March 30. Logo bottom left, WSDOT Active Transportation Division. Logo bottom right, Washington Climate Commitment Act.
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
As a long-time (now former) Spokane resident, I have to vote for the Spokane River Centennial Trail in the USA Today contest. Love this trail! 10best.usatoday.com/awards/spoka... #trails #RailTrails #BikeSPO
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Spokane River Centennial State Park Trail: 2026 USA TODAY 10BEST Readers' Choice Awards
Spokane River Centennial State Park Trail winds through eastern Washington and extends all the way to the Idaho border. You'll pass through urban areas and high desert ponderosa pine forests. Visitors...
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I love Amtrak Cascades! Just edited 30 pages of a document and drank my good coffee from home while heading to Seattle for the Safe Mobility Conference. I have my folding bike Tessa in the baggage car. Train+bike travel is the best! #trains #BicyclesChangeLives
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The e-book edition of LIFE AFTER CARS is available for just $1.99 on @bookshop.org for a limited time! bookshop.org/a/9252/97805...
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Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
As a long-time (now former) Spokane resident, I have to vote for the Spokane River Centennial Trail in the USA Today contest. Love this trail! 10best.usatoday.com/awards/spoka... #trails #RailTrails #BikeSPO
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Spokane River Centennial State Park Trail: 2026 USA TODAY 10BEST Readers' Choice Awards
Spokane River Centennial State Park Trail winds through eastern Washington and extends all the way to the Idaho border. You'll pass through urban areas and high desert ponderosa pine forests. Visitors...
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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Hoping to reach journalists/editors: - When you're writing about legislation, whether proposed or enacted, include a link to official info page on the bill. - When you're writing about research, include a link to the study. Why? I'll read your work before a piece by someone who doesn't do this.
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