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Megan Ramey
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Safe Routes to School Manager 4 Hood River. Bike 🚲 travel writer & map 🗺 maker. Scheming on bike 🛏️ hostel in Columbia Gorge.
7 years ago, I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl and promptly handed her to her mom.

Happy Birthday to my star, Penelope. She gifted me my greatest life experience including a 2nd opportunity to bike while pregnant!

Story: www.bikabout.com/blog/biking-...
November 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Before the walk: "I don't know you"
End of walk: holding hands

Walking and Bike Buses build community FAST!

This goes out to all our fellow leaders out there and the relationships they have with their students. You are making memories.
November 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
5am came quickly this morning, but just like magic, the kids and our panoramic beauty of the Columbia Gorge wakes me up really quickly.

Happy Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day.
November 15, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Every year, my city has the landscaping swapped in our planter protected bike lane to reflect the current season.

We just switched from autumn mums to a festive holiday theme, and it adds so much enjoyment to my commute.

Infrastructure can be beautiful at the human scale.
November 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
4 people radicalized by parenting.

Last night's Life After Cars book talk at Powell's was another evening of church. Not surprising, "Cars Ruin Childhood" is my favorite chapter bc of the effectiveness of kids' voices and subversive joy.

@thewaroncars.bsky.social
@coachbalto.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Love to see that Radicals shirt out there on such awesome people.

📸 @bikabout.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
See you tonight!
Hello, Portland! We are so excited to announce that we'll be at the famous @powells.bsky.social on November 13th in conversation with @opb.org's @anomalily.net about our new book, "Life After Cars."

Tickets, which include a copy of the book, are on sale now:

www.powells.com/events/sarah...
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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New Post: Katie Wilson is Seattle’s Next Mayor seattletransitblog.com/2025/11/13/k...
November 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Team Portland turnt up!

Thanks to @bikeportland for bringing all our people to Bike Happy Hour. It felt like homecoming for transportation nerds.

It was an overdue joy meet Doug and Sarah of @thewaroncars.bsky.social!
November 13, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Off to Portland for a very special Bike Happy Hour.
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
What other walk to school day features slumbering cows 🐄?

Oh, how our families need peace and community right now and #RubyBridges is the perfect event for it.

#hoodrivercounty
November 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
"Get your hands dirty and drop the screens and get obsessed with something, get passionate. We all want to share in what you might create." -Jack White

Freedom looks like kids on bikes, feeling the music, creating their own world.
November 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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A beautiful and tragic episode about the selfishness brought on by the auto industry.

Too much for me to take in one sitting.

My heart breaks for what was robbed from America
NEW EPISODE: "The Creation of America's Car Culture." Producer Ilana Strauss talks to @norton.bsky.social about the two men who, in the 1920s, teamed up to sell more cars and shape the way cities handle traffic. Their legacy can be felt across the country today. podcasts.apple.com/lu/podcast/t...
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Happy Ruby Bridges Walk to School week!

You will be seeing a lot of fun videos to every version of Blackbird 🎶 that I can find including the OG by the Beatles here.
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Tern is a great E-bike for youth:

+ Carries stuff
+ Legally designed to carry a friend
+ Integrated lights
+ Class 1, pedal-assist

Parent's E-bike buyer's guide:
www.bikabout.com/ebike-guide-...
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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We don’t have a youth e-bike problem — we have a youth e-moto problem.
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I struck a chord with this @bikeportland.org advocating for Oregon's youth. This would be a game changer for moms like me who unfairly bear the burden of kid shuttling and for t(w)eens who need to learn resiliency and independence the fun way.

bikeportland.org/2025/11/05/o...
Opinion: Let Oregon kids ride Class 1 e-bikes
Oregon's age restriction takes away a crucial mobility tool for young people.
bikeportland.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
144 comments

I struck a chord with this @bikeportland.org advocating for Oregon's youth. This would be a game changer for moms like me who unfairly bear the burden of kid shuttling and for t(w)eens who need to learn resiliency and independence the fun way.

bikeportland.org/2025/11/05/o...
Opinion: Let Oregon kids ride Class 1 e-bikes
Oregon's age restriction takes away a crucial mobility tool for young people.
bikeportland.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Everyone cares about transportation. This makes studying it really fun, but also means everyone (including experts) is in danger of confusing their opinions for facts. You would not believe how many comments in an academic talk about walking and cycling have to do with regulating e-bikes.
November 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"Transportation is a core life skill. We should be teaching it from K-12"

Recording of Best Practices in #Ebike Ed webinar by @saferoutespartners.bsky.social including Alison Dewey of @bikeleague.org and Gwen Froh of Marin County is 👇🏼

🔗https://tinyurl.com/2p8y2ecx

#saferoutestoschool
November 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
After 2 amazing months of showing and teaching bike joy and confidence in their PE class, I am taking my annual well-being waterfall ride, from Troutdale to Cascade Locks.

Highlights of Fall 🍁
+2 elementary, 2 middle, 1 highschool
+700 students
+30 learned to ride a bike
+13 bike field trips
November 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"When asked to illustrate a poster for Ruby Bridges day, I wanted to ensure I crafted a memorable and original image that spoke to the weight and lasting impact of her momentous accomplishment. As an affluent male of european descent, I put myself behind showing how we can follow in her footsteps"
November 7, 2025 at 5:29 AM
"It’s overdue for Oregon to honor its proud bike heritage — one that fosters resiliency, health, and mobility choice — and extend it to our youth, who arguably need it now more than ever."

@bikeportland.org Opinion: Let Oregon kids ride Class 1 e-bikes

🔗 bikeportland.org/2025/11/05/o...
November 7, 2025 at 1:22 AM
My 2 secrets to success:
1) getting kids in the street
2) centering their safety in cheap demonstrations

Today I presented on 3 successful Quick Builds or demonstrations that Hood River County has done.

Here are my slides with fun videos: docs.google.com/presentation...
2025.10 WSDOT - QuickBuild Projects
Quick Build Projects November 5, 2025 Washington State Department of Transportation
docs.google.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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@bikabout.com Megan Ramey cites @tomflood.bsky.social's Revelo in the Quick Builds Guide training from WSDOT: "Quick Builds build community trust and give our leaders political courage to champion safe streets and make larger investments."
November 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM