Barb Chamberlain

@barbchamberlain

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· Mar 31

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

Barb Chamberlain@barbchamberlain· Feb 14

15 seconds of peace. The waterfall is courtesy of UPS, in Seattle's Pioneer Square.

Barb Chamberlain@barbchamberlain· Nov 17

Photo of JFK special message to Congress on transportation. Full text in previous 2 posts. #AASHTO #AASHTOAM

Barb Chamberlain@barbchamberlain· Jul 16

Framing: "It's about community. If you address 30kph [20mph] to the public, people say it's too slow. When you ask if you want a safer zone for children, they say yes." -Tatiana Mihailova, Executive Director, Automobile Club of Moldova [Pic: Nancy Pullen Seufert seated, sharing this quote]

Barb Chamberlain@barbchamberlain· Jul 16

Jon Snyder, Spokane's Director of Transportation/ Sustainability, shares slide of policy actions Finland has taken since 1990s to produce step decline in traffic deaths. Stacking cumulative effects of interventions "like stacking bonuses in D&D." #WTSS2025 #RoadSafety #VisionZero #ZeroTrafficDeaths

Slide with text too small to read in different colored boxes overlaid with black line that has some peaks but overall heads steeply downward.

Barb Chamberlain@barbchamberlain· Jun 1

Garden run by bike to the Olympia Farmers Market. #BikeEverywhere #BicyclesChangeLives #BikeLife #gardening

Bright salmon colored upright step-through bike loaded with tomato and pepper plants in bags on front and back. The plants poke up out of the tops of the bags.

Barb Chamberlain@barbchamberlain· May 23

Awesome lineup at WTS Puget Sound Women in Motion event! www.wtsinternational.org/events/women... #WomenChangingTransport #WomenLead #transportation #transit

Several women on stage. Left to right: woman with brown skin and long black hair standing holding a microphone; seated all wearing glasses, woman with brown skin and natural hair, larger body; white woman with short grey and white hair; white woman with shower length curly dark brown hair; woman with brown skin and natural hair.

Barb Chamberlain@barbchamberlain· May 2

#WSDOTActive saw ducks, killdeer other birds at future spuyaləpabš Trail wsdot.wa.gov/construction... Hylebos Creek restoration wsdotblog.blogspot.com/2023/08/gone.... Future salmon runs expected here. #transportation #infrastructure #trails #spuyaləpabšTrail #Tahoma #Fife #Tacoma #conservation

Photo on a sunny day with blue sky looking across a brown metal railing at a quiet stream of brownish water, lined with green banks and trees. The stream curves to the left out of sight.

Photo on a sunny day with blue sky looking across a brown metal railing at a quiet stream. Several large logs that still have their roots lie at angles in the stream near its banks. At right, the brown soil is planted with dozens of small green seedlings and a few logs low there as well. On the left trees line the bank. The stream curves to the left out of sight.

Barb Chamberlain@barbchamberlain· May 2

Another view of future spuyaləpabš Trail crossing under construction and #WSDOTActive team practicing work zone safety in orange vests and hard hats. wsdot.wa.gov/construction... #transportation #infrastructure #trails #spuyaləpabšTrail #Tahoma #Fife #Tacoma #Bike253

Photo from above looking down at construction of a triangular center median island with a crossing path through it. A piece of heavy equipment is visible at left. The operator is moving dirt with the front scoop. Paved trail that the crossing will lead to visible at top of image.

Photo of a group of around a dozen people wearing orange vests and hard hats standing on a bridge that's under construction, looking down at the road below. One woman with long hair has her arm raised as if pointing something out.

Barb Chamberlain@barbchamberlain· May 2

Future spuyaləpabš Trail crossing at a future roundabout that will be under the bridge we're on. wsdot.wa.gov/construction... #transportation #infrastructure #trails #spuyaləpabšTrail #Tahoma #Fife #Tacoma #Bike253

Photo looking down at a road with a center triangular median under construction

Photo looking down at a section of paved trail next to a triangular center median under construction

Barb Chamberlain@barbchamberlain· Apr 19

Tripped and fell hard Thursday due to an upheaved sidewalk slab. Bruised and scraped hands and knees, badly wrenched ribs. Maintenance work is safety work! + accessibility: a wheelchair user couldn't travel this. #RoadSafety #transportation #infrastructure #walking #walkability #accessibility

Photo of a sidewalk with a slab heaved up. A white woman's hand is held against the slab to show the height of the upheaval, which appears to be finger length, nearly three inches.

Barb Chamberlain@barbchamberlain· Mar 16

Need a stress break? Maybe improv is just the thing. If you're in Olympia, WA, come to recruitment rehearsal 3/26 for new family-friendly troupe forming now! Is it Improv-OH-lee or im-PROV-uh-lee? Yes, yes it is! www.improvoly.com/recruitment-... #OlyWA #improv #ImprovOly #OlympiaWA

Flyer with fun cartoonish image of a light purple flower with a face and with white glove hands and feet; other flowers and hearts scattered around the flyer. Text reads: Improv troupe based in Olympia, WA is looking for new members who: Share a passion for laughter and creativity! Want to develop their improv skills & perform! Join us for a recruitment rehearsal on March 26! 6pm at the 123 4th Ave Apartments Community Room. No previous skills required! Learn more at the link: https://www.improvoly.com/recruitment-rehearsal

Barb Chamberlain@barbchamberlain· Jan 12

Today's walking delights: A blooming bush; great blue heron taking off from near shore and gronking as it flew along the inlet, huge wings beating slowly; cohort of loons(?) paddling hard to swim out against the incoming tide. #WalkingLife #WhileWalking #OlyWA #Olympia

Closeup photo of clusters of blossoms on a bush with long slender pointed green leaves. Just a few of the blossoms have opened on each cluster to show pale pink petals. The rest are still closed and are a darker pink.

Fuzzy photo of v-shaped wedge of dark birds swimming in cold grey water.

Barb Chamberlain@barbchamberlain· Jan 12

Yesterday while walking I saw first one tiny daisy, then a couple more, then realized the playfield at the middle school was full of them. What month is it again?! #WhileWalking #WalkingLife

Closeup photo of a white daisy with the tips of the petals touched with a bright pink and a bright yellow center against small broad leaves and grass.

Photo of a green field of grass speckled with tiny white daisies.

Barb Chamberlain@barbchamberlain· Jan 2

Things seen or experienced while walking-- may become a thread I add to. Today, a sign in the window of a building in downtown Olympia, "NOTICE: These premises protected by The Muppets." #WhileWalking #WalkingLife

Barb Chamberlain@barbchamberlain· Dec 10

Does your state capitol have bike parking with a fix-it stand? Mine does! Parked there while I testified at House Transportation Committee about WSDOT Active Transportation Division programs. Agenda/links leg.wa.gov/about-the-le... #BikeOLY #BikeSky #cycling #bicycles #BikeEverywhere #BikeToWork

Photo looking through glass wall of a bike parking enclosure. Two bikes are parked on the rack inside. Sunlight glowing through from left to right.

Photo inside glass-walled bike parking structure. In the foreground, an upright peach bike with a medium blue pannier on the front handlebars, bright turquoise bag on the back rack. In the background, a bike fix-it stand with tools attached to a central post by cables.

Photo looking past EV charging spots indicated by a green and white icon on the ground showing a power cord, with a red car at left. Past the car, a glass-enclosed bike parking structure with bikes inside.

Barb Chamberlain@barbchamberlain· Dec 2

Intercity Transit in Olympia WA is awesome for a number of reasons, including this sign in a seat when we got on this evening to go home after walking downtown for dinner. Transit and civil rights have traveled together a long time. #BlackLivesMatter #MobilityJustice #MoveEquity #CivilRights

Photo of a bus seat with a sign attached to the back. It has a photo of a Black woman on a bus looking out the website and text "This seat is reserved in honor of Rosa Parks (1913-2005). Today we celebrate Rosa Parks Day to honor her for her contributions promoting civil rights, equal rights, respect, dignity and opportunities for all."

At the bottom, Intercity Transit.

Barb Chamberlain@barbchamberlain· Nov 24

From @jenniferhomendy.bsky.social keynote 2024 AASHTO Safety Summit on the goal of zero traffic deaths: "The thing about safety is that it's pass/fail. People are dying, or they're not. You're at zero, or you're not." #RoadSafety #ZeroTrafficDeaths #VisionZero

Screenshot of a tweet that reads "The thing about safety is that it's pass/fail. People are dying, or they're not. You're at zero, or you're not."
-- Jennifer Homendy

Barb Chamberlain@barbchamberlain· Nov 23

Souvenir of today's bicycle outing: an actual physical library card from a visit to an actual physical library (plus a book). I've been getting ebooks for 4 years and this was my first time inside Timberland Library since we moved to Olympia. Libraries are awesome!

Photo of a library card with a rainbow illustration of people wearing clothing in purple, yellow, red, green, blue with the words Freedom to Read at the top with Timberland Regional Library below. The people have a variety of body sizes and skin colors and all hold their arms up in celebration.

Barb Chamberlain@barbchamberlain· Nov 23

Riding downtown for errands and brunch with friends. Saturdays are awesome. #BikeLife #BikeLove #BikeEverywhere #BicyclesChangeLives

Photo of smiling white woman wearing glasses with dark multi-colored frames and a dark bike helmet. Around her neck she wears a blue patterned scarf and over her shoulders there's a multicolored wool wrap.

Barb Chamberlain@barbchamberlain· Nov 22

My bike Sweetie waiting at Amtrak for the train that will take us both back to Olympia. Why Sweetie as the name: The bike was a gift from my sweetie when we were first dating and it's a Specialized Dolce. Leaving the translation up to you. #BikeLife #BikeNames #BikesOnTrains #BikeTravel

Photo have a bright blue road bike with lime green handlebar tape. On the back it's holding a couple of very loaded bags. A black helmet dangles from one handlebar and big tag that reads OLW from the other.

Barb Chamberlain@barbchamberlain· Nov 21

In Vancouver WA for a meeting. Bus tour w/city staff to check out buffered bike lanes, sheltered level boarding transit stops and more. Love that transit stops indicate where to roll bike in to access 3 internal stanchions on bus, separate wheelchair user boarding. #accessibility #BikesAndTransit