It’s time for the Bike News Roundup! Here’s a look at some stuff floating around the web lately. This is an open thread.
First up, a PBS documentary (fresh out of 1996) on the auto industry’s conspiracy to destroy public transit and create the urban traffic headaches we have today and continue to make worse through further highway spending. Interesting that Trump’s proposed budget would not only cut public transit funding, but also PBS…
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Pacific Northwest News
- Mitigating Displacement: The Edith Macefield Story » The Urbanist
- King County Metro Poised To Expand And Revise Late-Night Bus Service » The Urbanist
- Officials say damage to sewage plant in Discovery Park is catastrophic | The Seattle Times
- Out Now: Will Your Way Back – Inspirational Spinal Cord Injury Recovery Story by Mercer Island’s James H. Osborne
- 9-0: City Council Passes U District Rezone Unlocking MHA » The Urbanist
- AccessMap – An interactive map to help identify accessible routes around Seattle
- 24 Housing Supply Bills Survive First Cut-off in Olympia| Seattle Transit Blog
- The ULink Restructure Was a Bold Gamble. It Has (Mostly) Paid Off | Seattle Transit Blog
- What’s In Store for Rainier Avenue in 2017? | South Seattle Emerald
- Chilly Hilly bike tour passes Japanese American internment landmark » Biking Bis
- Did Seattle Just Cross The 700,000 Population Mark? » The Urbanist
- West Seattle Blog… | @ West Seattle Transportation Coalition: Fauntleroy Boulevard Q&A; One Center City
- Scenes from a Meltdown | Seattle Transit Blog
- Taco truck, stuck in Seattle’s big I-5 closure, opens for lunch anyway | The Seattle Times
- City moves forward with plan to rent adaptive bikes as part of Biketown system – BikePortland.org
- Editorial: Go Big on One Center City | Seattle Transit Blog
- Monday’s Traffic Meltdown Showed Downtown Freeways Are Brittle » The Urbanist
- Survey Results Challenge Stereotypes of Seattle’s Homeless Population | The C Is for crank
- Service on hold after First Hill Streetcar lost power, slid two blocks down Broadway | CHS Capitol Hill Seattle
- Clallam Transit to Introduce Bainbridge-Port Angeles Service | Seattle Transit Blog
- The start of a bike lane backlash in Seattle? – The Group Ride
- Seattle’s Duff McKagan is an ‘urban assault attack bike rider’
- Rich Brown: The Major Taylor Project’s New Lead | OutdoorsNW Magazine
- Need a Pothole Fixed? Maybe a Portland Anarchist Can Help! – Blogtown – Portland Mercury
- Grandmother hit and killed crossing street to see granddaughter’s musical | KOMO
- Returning Seattle to Its Roots in Diverse Housing Types | Sightline Institute
- Our Subway Plan, Rejected 105 Years Ago | Seattle Transit Blog
- King County Council Should Reject The Sale Of Convention Place Station » The Urbanist
- Sound Transit’s Governance is Key to Its Success | Seattle Transit Blog
- Rich Brown: The Major Taylor Project’s New Lead | OutdoorsNW Magazine
- While Olympia Threatens ST3, Trump Threatens ST2 | Seattle Transit Blog
- Democratic lawmakers back new bills targeting ST3 | KING5.com
Halftime show! StreetFilms takes a look at what’s happening in Santiago de Chile:
Santiago, Chile: 2017 Sustainable Transport Award Winner from STREETFILMS on Vimeo.
National & Global News
- Duck boats face increasing calls for improvements – Sentinel & Enterprise
- Jay Inslee for president? Governor’s profile is on the rise | The Seattle Times
- Cities Are Creating Car-Free Zones To Ease Congestion And Pollution | Here & Now
- Seven Johor Baru teenage cyclists detained – Nation | The Star Online
- Amsterdam Central Station’s Bold, Watery Revamp – CityLab
- Bike Index—Now a Nonprofit
- Bosnia becomes first country to repeal a cycle helmet law | Bicycle Business | BikeBiz
- Portland Congressman Earl Blumenauer introduces Vision Zero bill – BikePortland.org
- Bike Lanes May Be The Most Cost-Effective Way To Improve Public Health | Co.Exist | ideas + impact
- Silent barriers to bicycling, part III: Racial profiling of the Black and Latino community – Better Bike Share
- Cyclists & other Non-Motorized vehicles should not be allowed on main roads in Metros – Parl. Standing Committee on Transport – In India
- Video: Nissan driverless car in cyclist close pass | road.cc
- It’s Parking Madness Time — Send Us Your Parking Disasters! – Streetsblog USA
- Do Uber, Lyft worsen Seattle’s traffic congestion? | The Seattle Times
- American Bike-Share Is Growing Quickly — In a Handful of Cities – Streetsblog USA
- Wichita bike lane gets safety makeover after toilet plunger barriers appear | The Wichita Eagle
- Sadiq Khan: Ban cars from roads near schools to stop kids breathing toxic air | London Evening Standard
- Bicycle Bicentennial | ASME – If you include early “running machines,” then the bicycle turns 200 years old this year.
- For bikers of color, the barriers go far beyond infrastructure | PeopleForBikes
- Busting the Myth of the “Scofflaw Cyclist” – Streetsblog USA
Comments
3 responses to “Bike News Roundup: A 1996 PBS doc on the auto industry’s demolition of public transit”
Not this crap conspiracy-theory again…
Is this a politics blog (bringing up PBS cuts) or is it a blog about cycling? PBS is too tangentially related to cycling to make it apt for this blog unless you want to call Seattle Political Blog.