It’s time for the Bike News Roundup! This is an open thread.
First up, a quick and clear comparison of the benefits of well-used bike share (and sidewalks) vs car parking spaces in New York City. “The Citi Bike dock and the parking spots take up roughly the same area with much different results,” video maker Luke Ohlson told CityLab. “In just over an hour, there are nearly 200 bike trips taken compared to 11 car trips.”:
Time-lapse video of @CitiBikeNYC usage compared to parked cars, taken 5pm Weds 6/14. @transalt #bikenyc #nyc #bikeshare #streetopia pic.twitter.com/w9uiB8VnWK
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— Luke Ohlson (@ohlukeson) June 26, 2017
Pacific Northwest News
- No driver? No problem: Self-driving cars could soon be tested on Washington roads | The Seattle Times
- Detectives find vehicle used in fatal Issaquah hit-and-run | The Seattle Times
- SDOT Blog » Community-initiated project: Holman Rd NW and 13th Ave NW
- Never Mind the Mayoral Race. Here’s the City Council Position You Should Be Watching. | The C Is for crank
- The rise and dramatic fall of King County’s black homeowners | The Seattle Times
- Biking with a broken foot – Family Ride
- One Center City Now Recommends Bare Minimum For Transit » The Urbanist
- Man struck and killed on I-5 ramp to I-90 in Seattle | KOMO
- 1-year-old killed playing in driveway on Lummi Reservation | The Bellingham Herald
- Development Oriented Transit – The Pedestrian Chronicles
- Iconic trestle is a bridge to Eastside trail’s future | MyNorthwest
- Puyallup hit-and-run leaves cyclist in coma | KIRO-TV
- Who were Burke and Gilman, and how’d they get their names on our trail? | KUOW
- Three numbers explain why the tech boom doesn’t make Seattle’s new tunnel a good investment – GeekWire
- 2017 Worst Intersection In Seattle: Denny And Stewart » The Urbanist
- Sound Transit Brings Two Lynnwood Link Stations To 60% Design » The Urbanist
- Ballard Criterium 2017 – Velocity: The Seattle Area Cycling Blog
- The new horsemen: how American riot police embraced the bicycle | Cities | The Guardian
- Here’s why I-5 is such a mess in Seattle area, and what keeps us moving at all | The Seattle Times
- Is a Roads Ballot Measure in Our Future? | Seattle Transit Blog
- Why the ‘Rogue’ Bike-Share Model Won’t Work – The Atlantic
- Seattle Urbanists Should Be Rooting For The 99 Tunnel’s Success » The Urbanist
- Lesson in bias: Columbia City, I hear you loud and clear | The Seattle Times
- South End Residents of Color Clap Back at the Times | South Seattle Emerald
- Renderings: $100 million loan to fund Bellevue street projects
- Why I Don’t Have an E-Assist (or Why I Don’t Want a Car-Replacement Bike) – Family Ride
- Micro-transit firm Chariot to join Seattle market | The Seattle Times
- McGinn, Durkan emerge as frontrunners for Seattle mayor, new poll shows | King 5
- One Tool for Dismantling Structural School Segregation in Seattle: Better Zoning | Sightline Institute
- Opening Parks to More Seattleites | Sightline Institute
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- The Street Trust picks former TriMet planner and Charlie Hales staffer as new executive director – BikePortland.org
- No ‘car-free day’ on Alki this year, says SDOT | West Seattle Blog…
- Issaquah student was doing 102 mph — and didn’t get a fine. Should fellow students be the judges? | The Seattle Times
- ‘Part of an evolution’: Downtown business partners with cycling group | CBC – Vancouver, BC
- Reprieve for bus riders in Seattle’s transit tunnel, but cascading projects to multiply traffic challenges | The Seattle Times
- Registration Open: Community Package Tours » The Urbanist
- How bicycle travelers can pitch their tents at full WA state park campgrounds » Biking Bis
- U District Design Guidelines To Get Major Overhaul » The Urbanist
- Wow, Just Wow: Puget Sound To Alaska Alone On A Standup Paddleboard | KUOW
- Adaptive Signal System Kicks Pedestrians To The Curb » The Urbanist
- New Seattle #VisionZero App Shows Car-Related Collisions and Costs In Local ‘Hoods Since 2006 – Slog – The Stranger
- Sammamish River Trail gets an upgrade! – King County Parks Plog
- Cyclist files $300,000 claim against city of Seattle after streetcar track crash – Q13 FOX News
- How This Metro Bus Plowed My Car Onto the Sidewalk – Slog – The Stranger
- City accepts $50M grant for First Avenue streetcar, while ridership flags on existing routes | The Seattle Times
- Convention Center Delay Provides Time To Prioritize Transit » The Urbanist
- Unmute the Commute: Rainier Ave, 1.5 Accidents a Day. No More. | 91.3 KBCS
- Seattle’s dockless bikeshares: a guide to the bikes about to take over the city – Curbed Seattle
- Time for Seattle-area drivers to pay up? Tolling doesn’t get much love, but it eases gridlock | The Seattle Times
- Ten Takeaways From The Growing Seattle Forum » The Urbanist
Halftime Show! WSDOT recently put out a video about how totally awesome it is to bike in our state:
National & Global News
- Bike Index’s May 2017 recoveries!
- NACTO Wants to Find Out How Cities Can Design Better Streets, Faster – Streetsblog USA
- CitiBike has stalled — but there is a way forward – NY Daily News
- Newest Transit App Version 4.2 Integrates Modes Seamlessly » The Urbanist
- A cure for distracted driving? Software locks your phone while behind the wheel | The Seattle Times
- ‘I am a thief and a loser’ tattooed on forehead of alleged bicycle thief | Q13 FOX News
- Bike-sharing schemes: Flourishing or running riot? | China Dialogue
- New York Citi Bike Rider Killed in Fatal Crash – The Atlantic
- We scored the bike networks in 299 U.S. cities – here’s what we found | PeopleForBikes
- iPhones will get a ‘Do Not Disturb While Driving’ mode with iOS 11 upgrade this fall
- The Best Cycling Cities on the Planet | WIRED
- Mobike will launch dockless bike-sharing in the U.K., its first market outside of Asia | TechCrunch
- Bike-sharing boom travels from China to rest of the world
- Highway Planners Pause to Consider the Effect of Road Widening on Detroit Neighborhoods – Streetsblog USA
- Why the ‘Rogue’ Bike-Share Model Won’t Work – The Atlantic
- Killing of a Muslim teenager in Virginia is being investigated as a road-rage incident, police say – The Washington Post
- Dockless bike sharing will reshape cities, says Dublin start-up | Bicycle Business | BikeBiz
- California considers reducing traffic fines for low-income drivers | Marketplace
- Pa. transportation advocate killed on Center City sidewalk | Philly.com
- The Science Is Clear: More Highways Equals More Traffic. Why Are DOTs Still Ignoring It? – Streetsblog USA
- How To Make The Best Of Bike Sharing Boom: A Guideline for Cities – Donkey Republic
- Council says new ‘stationless bike’ company does not have permission to operate in Dublin | The Journal
- The End of Car Ownership – WSJ
- Kickstarter Gold: Bikequity, a social justice bicycle zine by Elly Blue — Kickstarter
- What’s keeping people of color from using Divvy? | Transportation | Chicago Reader
- Macon, Georgia, Striped a Good Network of Temporary Bike Lanes and Cycling Soared – Streetsblog USA
- The Open Road by Open Road Games — Kickstarter
