It’s (well past) time for the Bike News Roundup! Here’s a look at some of the stuff floating around the interwebs recently.

First up, it’s a good thing Pronto Cycle Share Executive Director Holly Houser is in a rock band, because I would hate for our bike share system’s theme song to be this bad:

OK, fine, after listening to it again, it’s stuck in my head. You win this one, overly-literal bike-loving K-pop song! ♫ More beautiful town or city with bicycles! ♫

Pacific Northwest News:

• This Weekend’s Nightmare Traffic: Why Won’t Our Leaders Build Light Rail Faster? | Slog
• 2-year-old boy struck, killed by mom’s van in Kennewick | KOMO News
• Redmond man hit by car says intersection is unsafe | KOMO News
• Bikes Are Blooming in Wenatchee | Washington Bikes
• Let’s Bury I-5: Redux | The Northwest Urbanist – OMG YES
• The closing of sidewalks: Will Seattle construction cause casualties? – Strange Bedfellows
• Seattle’s $28 Million Hole | Sightline Daily – This missing building is a big reason why this part of downtown feels like a rare dead zone in an otherwise bustling area (especially after business hours). Interesting how in a dense downtown a single vacant block can sap so much energy.
• Happy 100th to the Snoqualmie Tunnel » Biking Bis
• Witnesses: Child on Bike Struck in Crosswalk at Busy Snoqualmie Ridge Intersection – Living Snoqualmie
• PROS: Perimeter Ride of Seattle | Washington Bikes
• Bike Commuter Confessions | Brian’s Brain – If everyone thought this introspectively about their traffic mistakes, the world would be a much better and safer place.
• SDOT Blog » More Cyclists Using the Broadway Protected Bike Lane Each Day
• Dicking Around | Strava Route – In case you wanted to bike to every Dick’s Drive-In in Seattle, someone mapped the route for you.
• Better Eastside Rail | Seattle Transit Blog
• #I90to1 keeps on truckin’ – The WSDOT blog
• Let’s Build Rail to West Seattle (Option A6) | Seattle Transit Blog – Yes! This option would also work very well for planned bike connections. I’m already imagining options to meet the huge demand for secure bike parking at Delridge Station…
• City drops 84 bike parking spaces into East Portland parking lots – BikePortland.org – Here’s an interesting way to deal with those out-dated and car-centric parking-surrounded shopping centers: Portland will give property owners free bike racks if they provide space for them.
• The C Is for Crank: Carpocalypse Never | Seattle Met – “It’s impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror… Horror has a face… and you must make a friend of horror.“
• A Downtown School Just Dropped in Seattle’s Lap | Sightline Daily
• SDOT Blog » City launches program to address impacts from construction surge
• Wildfires close cross-state bicycle routes in Washington state » Biking Bis
• Friday Jolt: Seattle Developers Building Less Parking | Seattle Met
• PubliPola: Regressive Taxes for Buses? | Seattle Met
• Slow Ride Speed Date: Meet your match on two wheels | Hub and Bespoke Blog
• The “No Drop” Rule | Washington Bikes – If you say it, you gotta actually do it.
• New Blind Staircase in Front of Husky Stadium | Cascade Bicycle Club – Anyone else had this issue?
• A New Safe Route to School! » Seattle Neighborhood Greenways
• Bikes Are Blooming in Wenatchee | Washington Bikes
• Photo by airjacksonnoise – from the annual Point 83 Running of the Bulls
• Don’t do this on the First Hill Streetcar tracks | CHS Capitol Hill Seattle
• Seeing business upsides, Old Town retailers propose protected bike lanes on 2nd, 3rd – BikePortland.org
• Menstrual Monday · Girls of Summer Round 4 – Wrap-up and Results
• RapidRide use is way up | The Today File | Seattle Times
• Mayor Proposes Funding Night Owls, Deferring Ship Canal Study | Seattle Transit Blog
• Women Bike: Riding while having your period | Cascade Bicycle Club
• Create Adventure: Lopez Island Bike Camping | Washington Bikes
• Improving Bicycling for Everyone | The Northwest Urbanist
• Deadly pursuit led to 1-day suspension for Bothell officer | HeraldNet.com
• Capitol Hill pollinator pathway would create 11th Ave route for neighborhood bees, butterflies | CHS Capitol Hill Seattle
• ‘Green Light District’ turns 22nd/Roxbury crosswalk into keyboard | West Seattle Blog
• Chow Bio by Sarah Galvin – The Stranger – Bikes and coffee!
• Hitting and killing a cyclist? That’ll be $175 | Crosscut.com
• Let’s Build The Ballard Spur! | Seattle Transit Blog
• Spokespeople – Colorful photos from West Seattle Bike Connections STP ride – Bike from Seattle to Portland? Sounds hard. It’s way easier to bike from SW Seattle St to SW Portland St…

Halftime show! Some happy images from a Bike Works bike rodeo at NewHolly:

National & Global News:

• Bikers protest conditions for bicycles in wake of deadly St. Louis hit-and-run : STL Today
• Oklahoma City to add 62 miles of bicycle lanes | KOCO.com
• How Low-Income Commuters View Cycling – CityLab
• Other Cities Look to Tear Down Their Old Highways, But Not Denver | Streetsblog USA
• How Ciclovias Can Unfreeze Streets | League of American Bicyclists
• Want to breathe as little pollution as possible? Pedal at exactly 11 mph – BikePortland.org
• Citi Bike Poised for a Big Infusion of Cash – WSJ – An Alta buyout in the works?
• NY Court Just Made It Easier For Drivers To Get Away With Murder: Gothamist
• Contraflow Bike Lanes Finally Get Nod From U.S. Engineering Establishment | Streetsblog USA
• St. Louis to Pedestrians: Drop Dead | Streetsblog.net
• Hit-and-run victim investigates, solves own crime | KING5.com Seattle
• What’s the Best Way to Make Biking Mainstream in a Car-Centric City? | Streetsblog USA
• Why cars remain so appealing even in cities with decent public transit – The Washington Post
• San Francisco to Study Lowering Speed Limit to 20 mph | KQED News Fix
• Study: bike lanes save money and lives | Al Jazeera America
• 3 Ways LeBron Can Help Get Cleveland Biking | Streetsblog USA
• ‘Rolling coal’, deemed illegal by the EPA, enjoys 15 minutes of fame – BikePortland.org – Good thing my bike is rigged to emit questionably legal amounts of joy.
• Why Bikes Make Smart People Say Dumb Things — Medium
• Skyrocketing airline fees for bicycles » Biking Bis
• Bicycling: Relatively Safe | streets.mn
• FHWA: Bike-Ped Investments Pay Off By Cutting Traffic and Improving Health | Streetsblog USA
• Bike Share’s Gender Gap | League of American Bicyclists
• CU study finds more bicycles on the road lead to fewer accidents – 7NEWS Denver
• 371 City Leaders Ask Boxer For More Local Control Over Bike/Ped Money | Streetsblog USA
• 7 Photos Show How Detroit Hollowed Out During the Highway Age | Streetsblog USA
• 8 Monster Interchanges That Blight American Cities | Streetsblog USA – We made it on the list! (oh wait, that’s a bad thing…)

This is an open thread.