It’s time for the Bike News Roundup! Here’s a look at some stuff floating around the web that caught my eye.
First up, one of the only ways to get me to post a promotional video is to include lots of Seattle biking scenes:
Pacific Northwest News
- The $930 million Move Seattle levy shortfalls are clearer, but the solutions aren’t | The Seattle Times
- An uphill battle to get electric trolleybuses on Madison RapidRide route | The Seattle Times
- SDOT Plan Proposes Deleting Key Crosswalk from Beacon Hill Safety Project » The Urbanist
- 10 ways Seattle has blown past Portland in transportation moxie | OregonLive.com – The bike lane is always greener…
- Morning Crank: Potential for Conflicts | The C Is for crank
- What Is A Housing Emergency Really? » The Urbanist
- The Full Case for Seattle’s Center City Streetcar » The Urbanist
- Hey Seattle, Where Are All of Your Gas Stations? – News – The Stranger
- The Case for Ending Apartment Bans — Data For Progress
- Blowing smoke – City Arts Magazine
- Ballard woman killed in DUI crash spurs calls for intersection safety improvements | KIRO-TV
- Sound Transit Explores Options for Chinatown-International District and SoDo » The Urbanist
- $82.5K grant will help Africatown continue Midtown Center art and activation project | CHS Capitol Hill Seattle
- Hit in a crosswalk, 9-year-old makes courageous crossing | KOMO
- A Walkable Aurora Avenue » The Urbanist
- How Backyard Cottages Could Help Seattle’s Homeless Problem | Seattle Magazine
- PBOT will test pre-fab bus islands to smooth traffic flow – BikePortland.org
- Growing Safe Streets – Sightline Institute
- Seattle steps up improvements to intersection, Rainier Ave. after 2 girls get hit by car | KOMO
- New options for Seattle light-rail routes could add big dollars to expansion project | The Seattle Times
- These 7 photos reveal how I-5 construction tore through old Seattle | The Seattle Times
- Eleven Ways Adaptive Signals Frustrate, Discourage, and Endanger People Who Walk » The Urbanist
- Washington Hikers and Climbers Facebook Page – Someone hiked an ofo bike to Mailbox Peak.
- SDOT Blog » Seattle’s transportation new normal is just around the corner.
- Morning Crank: Taxing Uber and Lyft; Stalling Safe Consumption | The C Is for crank
- Lime’s E-Scooters Are Fun Until You Get to the Bottom of a Hill – Slog – The Stranger
- These three occupations use public transit far more than most in King County | The Seattle Times
- Leave your car at home. Bike sharing appears to be rolling into Tacoma | The News Tribune – Tacoma gets scooters along with bike share.
National & Global News
- Carnage as makeshift ‘speed bump’ fells early morning cyclist group | Sydney Morning Herald
- Commute Challenge 2017 – Random ASCII
- Wanna bike instead of ride? Uber is cool with that | Q13 FOX News
- ABC News in D.C. Calls Dead Pedestrians “Lazy” – Streetsblog USA
- How the Dutch created a casual biking culture – Vox
- In the battle of electric scooters vs. bikes in Charlotte, one is clearly winning | Jobs & Employment | pilotonline.com
- D.C. to extend scooter and bike program but will require locks on bikes starting Saturday – The Washington Post
- Bike Snob E-Scoots Portland | Outside Online
- Why aren’t helmets for drivers mandatory? | TreeHugger
- As fatal truck crashes surge, government won’t make easy fix | The Kansas City Star
- One-third of New Orleans cyclists are black, but they face the most bike charges in traffic court | NOLA.com
This is an open thread.
The bike lane might always be greener, but that doesn’t seem to keep people from parking in it. For instance, I have yet to bike on Roosevelt and not have to dodge between poles into the driving lane because someone thought it was a great place to park (one reason I’m not completely enamored with protected lanes). On my way up Stone from N 34, there was a Fedex truck parked in the bike lane just north of the intersection, again forcing me into the driving lane.
Is there any point in contacting the police about this? I used to, and then gave up because it seems like traffic enforcement is only a priority for the off-duty officers on someone else’s payroll. For the commercial vehicles, is there any point contacting the employer? It would be nice to think that folks holding a CDL would have a three-strikes-and-you’re-fired policy, but I doubt it.
I like the picture,it shows them riding on the sidewalk and the wrong way in that lane of the parking lot.This seems to happen a lot in the Shilshole parking lot.
Someone sometime will get hit by a car backing out of a parking spot.
Nice video, however if one was to just leave an unlocked “nice” bike anywhere in Ballard or Fremont like they did, well! the bikes would not be there long enough to have fun in the store! Just saying..
Ha! I had the same thought. Though it is pretty safe to leave your bike with your camera operator :-)
My case for building something besides the CCC: https://seattletransitblog.com/2018/09/03/mobility-alternatives-to-the-ccc/ and https://seattletransitblog.com/2017/10/19/replace-ccc-better-bus-service/. Since the mayor is soliciting input, it wouldn’t hurt to send her an email saying you want something better (and cheaper).