E-bikes distributed to selected Shoreline residents
Thursday, June 12, 2025
Transportation is Shoreline's biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions, making up 55% of our total emissions.
Most of these emissions come from gasoline-powered cars. The goal of the city is to reduce these emissions by 60% by 2030, which will be a big challenge.
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| E-bikes were distributed on Saturday June 7, 2025 at Ridgecrest Elementary Photo by Seattle Poppy |
To reach that goal, the city is encouraging biking and other transportation options that reduce driving in the community. Reducing community-wide driving also helps lower air toxics, as on-road vehicles are a major source of these pollutants in Washington.
In early 2025, the City was awarded a Washington State Department of Ecology grant to improve air quality and enhance connectivity in an overburdened community in Shoreline. The City is using this grant funding for Pedal Forward Shoreline.
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| Residents who applied to the program and were selected were able to pick up their bike on Saturday as Toby looked on Photo by Seattle Poppy |
Pedal Forward Shoreline is a program providing around 100 free e-bikes to residents who live in a select area of Shoreline from 145th to 165th and 5th to 25th. Program participants receive: An e-bike, with front and rear lights, a helmet, a reflective vest, and a bike lock.
The City of Shoreline has partnered with Cascade Bicycle Club to develop and deliver all of the classes, purchase and assemble the e-bikes, and get the e-bikes to residents.
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4 comments:
What a wonderful program! Looks like a fleet of Tern bikes - glad they bought high quality bikes.
Absolutely nothing Shoreline does will make a whit of difference in global warming. If all of Europe and the US and Canada go to net zero it won't make much of a difference. China, India, and other less developed countries are the source of the perceived problem and they are not going to change. The e-bikes will do nothing. Road shrinkage will just make more people move north to get out of the congestion.
These wasteful projects are what the state of Washington is doing with the 46 cent gas tax from the Climate Commitment Act instead of maintaining our roads, bridges, and ferries. Remember this the next time that our lawmakers whine about there not being enough tax revenue for them to maintain our transportation infrastructure.
Love it! I've been an e-bike commuter since 2020 and calculated this week that I've put 10,000 miles on my bike in that time. That's 10,000 miles that didn't require fossil fuels, didn't pollute, and didn't tax our roadways in any way. Go Shoreline!
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