It’s time for the Bike News Roundup! As always, this is an open thread.
First up, here’s a devastating and powerful 30-minute documentary by Werner Herzog about texting and driving that is grabbing attention across the nation. Is this a turning point in texting and driving acceptance in our culture? It should be.
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Pacific Northwest News
- Bolt Bus PNW – Happy Belated Birthday | Seattle Transit Blog
- Will Portland Streetcar ever find a way to prevent bike-rail crashes? | BikePortland.org
- Lynnwood Extension Draft EIS | Seattle Transit Blog
- Officer charged with off-duty DUI pleads guilty to lesser charge | The Seattle Times
- Ballard meeting tackles trail, SDOT seeks community input over Missing Link » My Ballard
- Bicycle and truck collision sends Enumclaw bicyclist to hospital | Enumclaw Courier-Herald
- Cyclelicious » Office building installs bike racks, tickets cyclists who use them
- Why have just one neighborhood block party a year? | Seattle Times
- A new ‘Common Sense’ vision for a Columbia crossing | BikePortland.org
- Citation for ‘Careless Driving to a Vulnerable Road User’ given in July collision | BikePortland.org
- ‘Books On Bikes’ Helps Seattle Librarians Pedal To The Masses | KPLU News for Seattle and the Northwest
- GO Rainier Valley GREENWAYS by MindMixer
- Obliteride: cycling for cancer research | The Seattle Times
- Talking while driving doesn’t boost crash rates, surprising new study finds | BikePortland.org
- Belfair Man Dies From Bicycle Crash | The Olympian
- Park Place | Sightline Daily
- Metro’s New Beta Trip Planner: Try It
- Mt. Si High grad, 18, charged in New Year’s hit-and-run death | KOMO News
- UPDATE: Child Hit by Car in Moxee is in Stable Condition – KNDU Tri-Cities, Yakima, WA |
- Cops cracking down on drivers using cell phones | Q13 FOX News
- SDOT Blog » This Way to Seattle’s Bicycle Future—Cycle Tracks
- Amazon gives a push to biking downtown | The Seattle Times
Halftime show! Here’s a BBC report comparing cycling in the Netherlands to cycling one ferry ride away in the UK:
National & Global News
- The Hidden Epidemic of Storefront Crashes – Sarah Goodyear – The Atlantic Cities
- Why Is St. Louis Using Tax Money to Subsidize Parking Lots and Bars? | Streetsblog Capitol Hill
- The Volokh Conspiracy » Riding a Bicycle Isn’t Protected Expression for First Amendment Purposes
- SFPD Now Shaming Bike Thieves On Twitter: SFist
- San Francisco Has a ‘Transparent’ Mural: Now You See It, Now You Don’t – John Metcalfe – The Atlantic Cities
- Parking vs. Everything Else: An Aerial Map of Downtown Detroit | Streetsblog Capitol Hill
- Cyclists in São Paulo awake to find the city had built a wall in their bike lane : TreeHugger
- Tour de France: Christian Prudhomme Opposes Adding Women’s Race | Bicycling Magazine
- 1.9 miles of recreational trails to be converted back to rail in U.P. | Detroit Free Press
- Proof That Bike-Share Generates More Foot Traffic Than Free Parking | Streetsblog Chicago
- Women Bike Report – League of American Bicyclists (pdf)
- Cop cardboard cutout used to cut crime at Massachusetts transportation hub | Fox News
- Why aren’t young people getting drivers’ licenses? Too much hassle! – Washington Post
- Please, Take a Load Off on Copenhagen’s Free Street Hammocks – John Metcalfe – The Atlantic Cities – For the record, this was totally MY IDEA FIRST! (last paragraph). I demand reimbursement. Or a hammock.
- Riding lessons for U.S. cities from one of Europe’s bike capitals | Grist
- What’s Better Than Turning an Urban Highway Into a Park? – Eric Jaffe – The Atlantic Cities
- Drivers who hit cyclists ‘should be presumed guilty’ | The Times
- Misdemeanor Charge for Accused Unlicensed Driver in Death of Queens Senior | Streetsblog New York City
- Good Times Roll in New Orleans – Momentum Mag
- BBC News – Why is cycling so popular in the Netherlands?
- Full speed ahead on Streetmix | Code for America
- Gets It: Beyoncé Bikes to Barclays | Streetsblog New York City
- Human-powered spaceflight @ Things Of Interest
- CTS Catalyst July 2012: Nice Ride spurs spending near stations
- AP News: US diplomat kills man in car crash, leaves Kenya
- Green Lane Project – What if bike comfort is more important than bike safety?
Comments
3 responses to “Bike News Roundup: A turning point in our culture of texting while driving?”
“British Cycling Revolution!” Long live the revolution….
I made it through about eight minutes of the video before I couldn’t take anymore. I’m very lucky that a Subaru with my seatbelt on worked as intended when I was t-boned by someone texting and driving through a red light or you might have seen my family on that video. There is no feeling better than that you’re alive when you didn’t think you would be. Or weirder than that you’re upside down in your car.
Gah, why do I subject myself to the comments at the Seattle Times? Full of people bitching about “entitled cyclists” as though driving a single-occupancy vehicle to work from your suburb home isn’t the height of entitled behavior…