It’s time for the bike news roundup! As always, this is an open thread.

A little update on my family. Fiona turns four weeks old today. Kelli and I spend every day at the NICU with her, holding her for hours and trying to help how we can (changing her diaper, taking her temperature, etc). It’s a stressful place to be, and I am just blown away every day by the patience and composure of the medical professionals here. We will be here for several more months. I anticipate that posts will continue to be somewhat sporadic, and that I will be slow to cover big news (I haven’t even written about the fact that the 2nd Ave bike lane extension is open! Or the Arboretum Trail! Or 35th Ave NE! Or bike parking regulation changes! Or that LimeBike and Spin want to add electric kick scooters! Lots of big stories are going uncovered here, but I’ve just had to make peace with letting them go for now.

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Now, here’s a bunch of bike and transportation stuff floating around the web in recent months:

Pacific Northwest News

• Council Wraps Up Short-Term Rental Legislation, Conditionally Vacates Property in South Lake Union » The Urbanist
• Morning Crank: The Dizzying Array of Potential Pedestrian Treatments – The C Is for crank
• 120,000 Square Feet in the Heart of Seattle Is Set to Disappear – Next City
• The Story on Amtrak Cascades Train 501 Derailment – Transit Sleuth
• Have You Ridden Strava’s Most Popular Segments?​ : I-90 Westbound in Mercer Island, WA | Bicycling
• Metro to continue 520 bike-crossing service as new bridge trail opens – Metro Matters
• Tourists spend $195 a day in downtown Seattle — that’s twice as much as local visitors | The Seattle Times
• Exclusive video shows driver maneuver around body after fatal hit-and-run in Seattle – Q13 FOX News
• “Death trap?” Seattle streetcar tracks deadly to cyclists – seattlepi.com
• 2016 Traffic Data Trends Look Bad for Pedestrians: Is Vision Zero in Reach? » The Urbanist
• Where Next for King County’s $20 Billion Roads Program? | Seattle Transit Blog
• My solution to the coming downtown Seattle tunnel mess: Pay drivers to use it | The Seattle Times – Hmm…
• Residents think a Bellevue bikeshare would be ‘awesome’ | KIRO-TV
• To Bring Lynnwood Link Back Within Budget, Defer the Parking Garages – Seattle Transit Blog
• A few things we’re looking forward to in 2018 – BikePortland.org
• Washington has a new Hall of Fame and you might be a member | The News Tribune
• UW Mailing Services introducing bicycle deliveries | News | dailyuw.com
• If you think Seattle traffic is bad now, just wait until all these projects start | The Seattle Times
• Suspected Broadway shoplifter chooses wrong getaway vehicle: the First Hill Streetcar | CHS Capitol Hill Seattle
• VIDEO: Seattle a ‘climate leader’? Our carbon emissions tell a different story | KUOW News and Information
• Eastside Rail Corridor Trail suddenly taking shape in Renton, Newcastle and Bellevue – Biking Bis
• “Cycling the Pacific Coast” is definitive guidebook for West Coast adventure – Biking Bis
• Updated Madison RapidRide G plans call for 2021 start of service | CHS Capitol Hill Seattle
• Where They Stand: Bike Racks to Block Homeless Camps – Slog – The Stranger
• Ofo bike share employees complain of poor working conditions | KIRO-TV
• Bicyclists flock to new bike trail on WA 520 Bridge – Biking Bis
• Beyond Backyard Cottages: Putting a number on the cost of doing nothing.
• Biking while fat: 4 things I wish I had known when I started riding | CyclingTips
• What’s next for Seattle’s new era floating bike shares | CHS Capitol Hill Seattle
• SDOT Blog » Host a People Street this summer!
• South Sound bike shop owner is riding off into the sunset — on two wheels, of course. | The News Tribune
• NE 65th Street Needs a Heavy Dose of Vision Zero, Here’s How » The Urbanist
• After 5 years, walk-bike bridge design for Northgate light-rail station still unfinished | The Seattle Times
• Utility truck suspected in fatal hit-and-run left behind sack of rugby balls | The Seattle Times
• Making the outdoors more accessible | Sequim Gazette – This is awesome!
• Why transit nerds are so jealous of Seattle – Curbed
• Introducing our new Family Biking column by Madi Carlson – BikePortland.org
• Seattle is putting fences under its bridges to keep campers out — and some say that’s wrong | The Seattle Times
• Morning Crank: To Reduce the Door-to-Door Burden of People Already in Crisis – The C Is for crank
• How do Seattle’s bike share companies make money? | KUOW News and Information
• Eastside Greenway Alliance – Fancy website for the alliance of orgs supporting the Eastside Greenway. Side note: We’ve been calling it the “Eastside Trail” until now. Perhaps we’ll start calling it the “Eastside Greenway” as this alliance calls it. Much better than the “Eastside Rail Corridor,” as it has been known until now.
• As Seattle examines hostile architecture, Mike O’Brien seeks clarity for city’s unsheltered – Curbed Seattle
• Limebike’s electric-assist bikes are out and rideable right now – Curbed Seattle
• Mobike posts Seattle job openings—but has no plans for a local launch – Curbed Seattle
• Here’s how I’ve carried my kids by bike for the past 10 years – BikePortland.org
• king5.com | 17-year-old visualizes safer Seattle streets
• Seattle bike share Limebike accuses Ofo of unfair business practices | KOMO
• The Possibilities of a Neo-Lamarckian Urbanism – Slog – The Stranger
• Limebike’s electric scooters could eventually come to Seattle, too – Curbed Seattle
• Seattle arboretum loop trail opens up new vistas, opportunities | The Seattle Times
• Northeast Seattle street project stirs cars vs. bikes debate | The Seattle Times
• Name of Milton bicyclist killed by vehicle released | The News Tribune
• NE 65th St “Final Design” Now Merges Bike Lane and Bus Zones » The Urbanist
• Pedestrian falls into Seattle street, is killed by Metro bus | The Seattle Times

National & Global News

• MasterCard data used to show bike-sharing schemes boost business | Bicycle Business | BikeBiz
• Two arrested in hit-and-run death of Jose Hernandez Solano as fellow cyclists honor him – Twin Cities
• Across-state and multi-day bike tours listed here – Biking Bis
• Dock-less bike share is ready to take over U.S. cities. | Slate
• America’s 10 best new bikeways of 2017 • PeopleForBikes
• Urban Planning Has a Sexism Problem – Next City
• The WTF Bikexplorers | The Radavist
• Cyclist completes 10,201-mile migration with monarch butterflies | Albert Lea Tribune
• Ottawa Police Shut Down Driver For Mocking Winter Cyclist | Huffington Post
• Navigation Apps Are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods Into Traffic Nightmares – The New York Times
• How Washington, D.C. Built A Bike Boom – The Atlantic
• Dockless bike-sharing startup LimeBike is working on creating virtual parking spots – Recode
• China’s bike-sharing frenzy has turned into a bubble | CNN Money
• How bike-sharing conquered the world – The bicycles that broke free | The Economist
• ‘A rolling walking stick’: why do so many disabled people cycle in Cambridge? | Cities | The Guardian
• Car crashes into Giant Adelaide bike shop in Hindmarsh Square | Adelaidenow
• Women and the city: reclaiming the streets to impose equal rights | The Conversation
• How ‘Not in My Backyard’ Became ‘Not in My Neighborhood’ – The New York Times
• St. Louis Calms Traffic With Heavy Concrete Globes – Streetsblog USA
• Unbuilt cities: the outrageous highway schemes left as roads to nowhere | Cities | The Guardian
• LA should dismantle its freeways – Curbed LA
• Spin unveils its stationless electric bike – TechCrunch
• D.C.’s Dockless Bikeshare Firms Earn More Diverse Users – The Atlantic
• Bike share for kids? This Brazilian city is ahead of the curve. – Better Bike Share
• Divvy’s top rider of 2017 pedaled 6,000 miles while making food deliveries | Chicago Reader
• Nice Ride chooses firm to transition to dockless bike sharing | Star Tribune
• El Paso and Juárez Plan a Binational Border Bikeshare – CityLab
• U.S. kids die from traffic fatalities at twice the rate of other wealthy nations – Curbed
• It’s ok to critique dockless bikeshare. It’s not ok to be bigoted. – Greater Greater Washington
• Bike-share companies peddle excuses, apologies after Dallas’ clean-up-or-else demands | Dallas City Hall | Dallas News
• We don’t just need electric cars, we need fewer cars | Greenpeace International
• Dockless Bike-Share Is Leading a Stunning Cycling Comeback in China – Streetsblog USA
• Did you see our Car Bike Ports and Bike Ports in Hackney on Car Free Day 2017?! | Cyclehoop
• The Brewing Fight Over Who Controls The New Wave Of Dockless Bike Sharing | Fast Co
• Man on Bike Protests Net Neutrality by Slowing Traffic Outside FCC Headquarters | Bicycling
• Uber’s Plan to Rent Electric Bikes Is Good for Uber, Traffic, and You | Slate
• Why Kansas City, Missouri, plans to privatize sidewalks – Vox
• Unpleasant Design in Disguise: Bike Racks & Boulders as Defensive Urbanism – 99% Invisible
• Is the Dockless Bike-Share Revolution a Mirage? – Streetsblog USA
• Spin: The Urban and Campus Mobility Company – Spin – Medium
• Muhiyidin Moye, Black Lives Matter Activist, Is Shot and Killed in New Orleans – The New York Times
• Former California Mayor Calls New Bikeway “Urban Rape” – Streetsblog USA
• 2 books: Where Do Missing Socks Go? and Limitless by Danielle Marino & Ian Klepetar — Kickstarter
• Trump’s Infrastructure Plan: Smoke and Mirrors – National Association of City Transportation Officials
• How America’s Bike Helmet Fixation Upholds a Culture of “Unfettered Automobility” – Streetsblog USA
• Don’t let anyone tell you we don’t know how to increase biking in a city • PeopleForBikes
• When your city hates your traffic calming measures – NextSTL
• It’s official, cycling is the majority mode of transport on the streets of London in peak hours | BikeBiz
• Our Woefully Outdated Licensing Laws Kill Cyclists | Outside Online
• A common urban intersection in the Netherlands – BICYCLE DUTCH
• The Electric Glide | Slate
• Lyft Announces Entrance Into Bike Share In Baltimore | Modern Cities