A Week Without Driving is October 1 - 8, 2026. I haven’t owned a car in several years. When my spouse and I moved to her hometown in Germany, the choice to be car-free was easy. There were two grocery stores within 500 meters of where we lived and a couple more within a kilometer. Practically every amenity could be easily walked or biked to. We even had a pleasant pedestrian-only city center. If we needed to go anywhere further, there was a train station a short 5-minute bike ride away with both regional and long-distance high-speed trains. We didn’t live in a big city, this was a small rural town of about 60,000 people and typical for Germany.

When we decided to move to Washington our goal was to…

Squeaky Wheels strongly supports Bainbridge Island moving forward with a school-zone speed camera program. Children walking and biking to school deserve streets where the posted speed limit is more than a suggestion. A driver traveling too fast through a school zone has less time to react and increases both the likelihood and severity of a crash. We should use every practical tool available to make these locations safer. Automated speed enforcement is one of those tools—and it is not new, experimental, or unusual….

The Bainbridge Island Parks & Trails Foundation and other local nonprofits will host a public presentation on nonmotorized safety in roundabout design at 7 p.m. on Feb. 12 at the Woodward Middle School Commons.  

Bike for Pie, Squeaky Wheels’ epic (and only) official ride, fundraiser, and eating extravaganza, registration is now live. The ride happens Sunday, August 31, 2025.

Register now, you receive 10% off your entire order including ride registration and our first-ever, special biking jersey using promo code….