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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.
Black Friday begins 🍻
November 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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How Megan Ramey is using bikes to spark independence for kids, calmer streets, and stronger communities. A powerful rethink of how we move and live. Listen here: tinyurl.com/tnkj97bs @bikabout.com
#KidsOnBikes #SchoolStreet #KidCyclists #BikeBus #SafeStreets #ActiveTransportation #Podcast
November 28, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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.
November 27, 2025 at 10:14 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.
November 27, 2025 at 10:10 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
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 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
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Seeing recent threads from @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social and @bikabout.com about e-bikes (or e-dirt bikes as the case may be), I thought I would throw in my thoughts as a parent of a now-teenager and pre-teen that just moved to a safe place to ride a bike from a not-safe place.
November 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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I’m glad to live in a great part of Minneapolis where kids traveling alone is okay. Didn’t start for us regularly until 2nd and 5th but now a year later they are pretty competent on their own.
"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
November 21, 2025 at 4:12 AM
"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
November 20, 2025 at 10:36 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!
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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