It’s bike news roundup time (finally!). I’ve had people pounding on my door all morning, demanding the weekly roundup (ok, so it was just one person on Twitter). Now, it has arrived…
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Pacific Northwest News:
- Commuting in Seattle and Portland | Sightline Daily – Seattle rocks it. Here’s an interesting follow-up: The Demographics of Transit | Sightline Daily
- You know Portland’s problem? It’s all those bikes, obviously… BikePortland.org » The Oregonian: Bikes to blame for potholes, PBOT budget mess
- Awesome turnout of kids & parents on bikes for Bike to Bryant . I think the location helps! #seabikes @Toppot – Seattle’s bike-to-school efforts are becoming more and more doughnut-fueled
- Is Metered Parking Killing Chinatown? No. | Sightline Daily
- Head of traffic management at Seattle transportation department resigns | Seattle Times Newspaper – Could mean some shakeups in the department.
- Tolls on Highway 99 tunnel now expected to fall $200M short | Seattle Times Newspaper – Obviously, we don’t need the tunnel if people are not even willing to pay the toll once it’s there. The demand simply isn’t there.
- Chilly Hilly with one passenger « Family Ride
- Car vs. bicycle incident sends rider to hospital, ties up Pine/Boren | CHS Capitol Hill Seattle
- Stone Way islands for Wallingford’s Greenway | Wallyhood
- In Portland: Can Freight Bikes Replace Trucks? | Ecotrope – Someone PLEASE start a bike freight company in Seattle.
- Wednesday Jolt: GOP and WA. Environmental Council Agree | PubliCola
- Riding Reporter gets hit | The Riding Reporter :-(
- A safer way | The Daily – UW paper puts neighborhood greenways on the front page
- Bicycle Alliance of Washington: John Vander Sluis Recognized as a Safe Routes to School Champion
- Family offers forgiveness to driver who accidentally killed blind Prosser woman | Yakima Herald-Republic – I am troubled by the insistence that the truck driver is not at fault. The family’s forgiveness is touching and sincere. But it’s still completely your fault if you run over someone. It doesn’t mean you’re a bad person, but you are responsible for your vehicle.
- The Politics of Speed « SvR Design
- Sierra Club: Let Us Know What You Think! – Nominate the worst and best transportation projects in the nation.
- One more week without your bike polo lights, Bobby Morris | CHS Capitol Hill Seattle
- Seattle City-wide Planned Construction: Seattle Department of Transportation – Check out this city map of planned road and sidewalk closures due to construction work.
- Kent’s Bike Blog: The High Cost of Cheap Gas
- Hey Ballard! How ’bout some civilized bike parking!?! 8′ sidewalks with few racks is whack.– From Go Means Go
Halftime show! Starring the incredible Danny MacAskill, a trials rider that even people who don’t like bike trick videos can get into:
National & Global News:
- Federal commission approves Capital Bikeshare’s move to the National Mall – @TBD On Foot | TBD.com – Finally.
- Seattle Bike Polo » 2012 NA Championships Select their Location – Milwaukee!
- Bronze statue plan for bicycle accident victim | This is Bristol
- Wealthy, motivated by greed, are more likely to cheat, study finds – latimes.com – Wealthy people more likely to cut off people in the crosswalk.
- European Cyclists’ Federation – The Best Way to Promote Cycling ‘Is to Not Talk About Cycling’- In the Bicycle Seat with Gil Peñalosa
- The Biggest Bike-Share Beneficiaries Won’t Be Cyclists | Streetsblog New York City – Top users are people who did not bike (or biked very little) before bike share opened. This is awesome.
- Reducing Traffic Fatalities for Cyclists and Pedestrians – Room for Debate – NYTimes.com
- Women on Bikes SoCal – Bike Minded Market Watch – My Dream for Bicycle Advocacy – A call for more mixing of bikes and fashion
- Effects of a driver enforcement program on yielding to pedestrians. – It works! Let’s get Seattle Police to do more crosswalk stings.
- Don’t Call It a Merger: America’s Big Three Bike/Ped Advocates Join Forces | Streetsblog Capitol Hill
- U.S. Rule Set for Cameras at Cars’ Rear – NYTimes.com
- Rental Helmets, Coming Soon to a Bike-Share Station Near You | Streetsblog.net
- The Lorax helps market Mazda SUVs to elementary school children nationwide – Virginia Schools Insider – The Washington Post – Disgusting.
- 30 Days of Biking — Register – Starts April 1!
- Press Release: Winners Announced for 2011 Alliance Photo Contest – Featuring a photo by the Path Less Pedaled’s Russ Roca
- The Evening Standard ties itself in double yellow knots | As Easy As Riding A Bike – In the irrational world of parking management, even “taking away” parking that was already illegal is controversial.
- Is Urbanism Slowing the Rise of Car Travel? – Commute – The Atlantic Cities
- “A Ride of Death”, 1940s | Retronaut
- Bikeleague.org Blog » Success! A better MAP-21 for cycling – Big news!
- St. Louis Set to Study Removal of Elevated I-70 | nextSTL – The map of vacant and surface parking lots north of the Arch is incredible. Tear down that freeway!
- Bike Score – From the Makers of Walk Score – YES!
Comments
3 responses to “Bike News Roundup: Seattle > Portland”
I LOVE that bike freight idea. It sounds perfect for local freight delivery!
This was a huge, intense news roundup. Wow.
This is an open thread, like all the other roundup threads, right? I’ll just assume it is. So… I frequently want to bike around the south end of Lake Washington. Unfortunately, Renton is in the way. I have yet to find a really good way through Renton — it’s always the least pleasant part of my ride. When there are bike lanes in Renton they’re terribly designed; some of their trails (like the Cedar River Trail) have a 10MPH speed limit, which is, frankly, asinine. So… what do people think about good bike routes through Renton?
Al,
I doubt my routing, through Renton when circumnavigating the lake, is all that different than anyone else’s, but here are some variations that I prefer…
Counterclockwise:
• South on Rainier Ave S….turn left onto the Perimeter Road and loop around the airfield
• Cross the Cedar River on the multi-use path parallel to Logan Ave N
• Stay on the new multi-use path until N 6th…
• Or, you can also stay on the Cedar River path…it must be one of the only paths in the world where you can have a crossing situation with a 737, et al…totally cool!
• Leave the path at N 6th, head east, and turn north onto Logan…
• At the intersection of N 6th and Logan Ave N, the two-way path ends and you should cross Logan and take the bike lane…this is a very dangerous confluence as you are on the “wrong” side of Logan…I highly recommend using the crossing signals and/or traffic lights to the letter
• Once on Logan, proceed north/north-east…Logan becomes Park Ave N
• At the intersection of Park Ave N and Garden Ave N, stay to the left and get into the left-turn lane…turn left onto Lake Washington Blvd N
• Once through the chicane…watch for merging traffic on your right…get over onto the shoulder / bike-lane
• Once on LWB-N, proceed to the intersection of LWB-N and Seahawk’s Way and turn left, just before 405
• Just north of the Seahawk’s facility is the entrance to the multi-use path on your right…
A counterclockwise variation…
• At one of the Renton Sports Field (name?) access driveways, leave the multi-use path and cross Logan Ave SOUTH of N 4th Street…be very careful doing this…depending the time of day, large traffic gaps usually allow for safe crossing
• Get all-the-way to the right and proceed through the Logan and N 4th Street intersection
• Immediately to your right is an enormous fallow parking lot…turn into the lot and proceed north through the lot until the last east-access driveway onto Burnett Ave N
• Burnett terminates at NE 6th…turn right onto 6th and proceed to Park Ave N
• Take Park Ave N through the Landing, turn right staying on Park Ave, and get into the left-turn lane at Park Ave and Garden Ave N
• Turn left onto LWB…
Clockwise route…
• Pretty much the same, but the other direction…
• Turn right onto Park Ave N from LWB
• Stay on the Park Ave / Logan Way bike lane
• When the bike lane ends at N 6th, either turn right and proceed west until you reach the Cedar River path…
• …or, cross N 6th and get onto the new multi-use path along Logan…be very careful here as the bike-lane does not merge seamlessly with the new multi-path…I usually roll-over the traffic islands via the wheel-chair access ramps with the signals
Any other variations, or corrections on my streets and name, would be greatly appreciated…