It’s time for the weekly Bike News Roundup! First up, here’s a much shorter Bike Master Plan, from Copenhagenize:
Pacific Northwest News
- OneBusAway: The Future of OneBusAway
- West Seattle Blog… » West Seattle Crime Watch: Mail theft; bike theft; car prowl
- Get ready for Capitol Hill parklets — Seattle has new Public Space Manager | CHS Capitol Hill Seattle
- 3 reasons Portland retailers have embraced bike parking – Green Lane Project
- Why I Oppose Sub-Area Equity for Sound Transit | Slog – by Ed Murray. And here’s McGinn’s response: What Does Ed Murray Have Against Rail in Seattle? | Slog
- Scraper Bike Success! « Cascade Bike Blog
- Seattle’s bike family increases by one as Timbuk2 gears up for Seventh Avenue store opening | fifthavenueseattle.com
- Kent’s Bike Blog: #30DaysofScootering: Seattle to Issaquah
- From newbie bike commuter to confident role model « Cascade Bike Blog
- Report: Less traffic congestion in Seattle | Local News | The Seattle Times – Did tolling 520 reduce traffic times for the whole region?
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Just left @seattledot mtng on #75th to see this. Make 35th/75th safer, please… twitter.com/WedgwoodCC/sta…
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— WedgwoodCommCouncil (@WedgwoodCC) April 24, 2013
- Half naked Lake Stevens man arrested for 3rd DUI after crash | KOMO News
- Memo warns Seattle police officers not to drink and drive | KOMO News – At least 11 SPD employees were cited for DUI last year. Holy shit.
- Product Developer, Seattle Bike Supply, Kent, WASHINGTON (Seattle Area) | Malakye.com
- Remaking Sodo: Hansen, teams, city look at L.A. Live | The Seattle Times
- BikePortland.org » Riders discover woman driving car on I-205 Bridge bike path
- Why Cascade opposes the Columbia River Crossing boondoggle « Cascade Bike Blog
- Notes from the Seattle microhousing forum: ‘fact finding’ + ‘podners’ + ‘out of scale’ | CHS Capitol Hill Seattle
- The Pitchforks Come Out at aPodment Hearing | Seattle Met
- Mariners fan hit by Link train dies | The Seattle Times
- BikePortland.org » PSU researcher delving into “multimodal road rage”
- Haulin’ Colin: A Seattle metal shop specializing in pedal-powered creations « Cascade Bike Blog
- Jonathan Maus: Bike Advocacy, Journalism, and the Struggle for Balance | The Bicycle Story
- Greenbike – Cycling at WSU
- Man Robs Bank, Rides Away on Getaway Bike | SPD Blotter
- No life-threatening injuries, driver sober in 15th Ave E car vs. pedestrian incident | CHS Capitol Hill Seattle
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I wonder if this boat will get moved out of the traffic circle. But I love @seattlepd ‘s remarks. Yes, really. twitter.com/nSeattleSarah/…
— Sarah Heath (@nSeattleSarah) April 11, 2013
- Man killed in crash into Lake Stevens house | Seattle Times
- Mayor advances plans for new Ship Canal crossing « Cascade Bike Blog
- Beacon Hill Blog » Opinion: Greenway improvement at Beacon/Hanford hazardous, unnecessary
- DUI investigations after woman drives on 15th Ave sidewalk, truck flips at 6th/University | CHS Capitol Hill Seattle
- Beacon Hill Blog » Hit-and-run victim seeks witnesses of 3/25 accident
- CHS Pics | Capitol Hill ecodistrict pedals to a start — And where it’s going next | CHS Capitol Hill Seattle
Halftime show! Check out this flashy video showing a massive plan to remake Rio’s waterfront. Hmm, some of this looks pretty familiar…
National & Global News
- I Bike, I Walk, And I Vote: StreetsPAC Launches With Focus on Council Races | Streetsblog New York City
- 70-year-old woman writes ode to her stolen bicycle | road.cc
- Copenhagenize.com – Bicycle Culture by Design: Using Street Space for Bike Parking
- Walking While Old: Seniors Face Greatest Death Risk : Shots – Health News : NPR
- Pedalling myths: the anti-bike lobby is flat out of plausible arguments | guardian.co.uk
- MD Legislative Session Ends Without Mandatory Helmet Law | B’more Bikes
- BikePortland.org » Involved in a hit-and-run? New tool shows location of security cameras – Is there anything like this is Seattle?
- Cyclists endanger motorists – San Antonio Express-News – I was going to just ignore this, but then I noticed that this guy is the freaking mayor. What an asshole!
- Mapping the Car Crash Near Misses That No One Ever Sees – Emily Badger – The Atlantic Cities
- AAA Spokesman: Leading DC Urbanist “Retarded” and “Like the Klan” | Streetsblog.net
- Sinkhole swallows three cars on Chicago’s South Side – U.S. News
- There Is No War on Cars: So why do we keep hearing so much about it? – Washington City Paper
- LaHood: Zero Tolerance for Drivers Who Disrespect Cyclists | Streetsblog Capitol Hill
- Children who live near traffic have greater risk of cancer: study – latimes.com
- Family of fatal crash victim: ‘Never, never text and drive’ | GreeleyTribune.com
- In a Landslide, Tulsa Wins the Parking Madness “Golden Crater” Award | Streetsblog Capitol Hill
- New Chicago Plan: Pedestrians Come First – Emily Badger – The Atlantic Cities
- Cyclists dress like police to slow drivers down – London Evening Standard
- Police Stings for Drivers Who Don’t Yield in Crosswalks: Does It Really Work? – Sarah Goodyear – The Atlantic Cities
This is an open thread.
Comments
6 responses to “Bike News Roundup: Shorter Bike Master Plan”
The Linden cycle track is nearly finished!
It’s open to the point that I’ve ridden the entire stretch (to work and back) in the last couple days. And, it’s some fast-rolling black-top! They removed (and are relocating) the last row of parking spaces that required crossing traffic lanes while going southbound.
They are putting the finishing touches on it so I wouldn’t be surprised to see some parts of it ‘coned off’ during the next week or so, and there are still the usual work/construction vehicles parked sporadically in it during the day. Still, I’ve shaved more than a few minutes off my commute now that I don’t have to play ‘Frogger’ through there anymore! Good times…
I have to say San Antonio has a lot of bike lanes but they are on the same street as high volume traffic. While I was visiting family we saw a total of 3 people on bikes in the week we were there and they didn’t look like commuters. Personally, I would be very nervous riding my bike in those lanes.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/community/bulverde/article/Cyclists-endanger-motorists-4460626.php
Here is Mayor Bill Krawietz’s official email address, in case you want to drop him a line: [email protected]
“The last thing we want to do is to start ramping up citations for the littlest infractions to get you to notice.”
On an unrelated note–has anyone seen the highway size signage on the BGT declaring a “DETOUR May 6 thru” TBD from the west side of canal park to 2 blocks west? It seems that whatever the reason, bike to work month is a tragic sense of timing… It would be a funny prank to make our fair weather cyclist friends think they have to hit Leary on their first ride to work, but it’s not April 1st!
I think the BGT detour is to repair some very old electrical equipment related to the big power lines that cross the ship canal at 3rd. I don’t know this for sure, but I’d think the detour would be short, and might not require using Leary at all.