It’s time for the Bike News Roundup! Here’s a look at some of the transportation news floating around the Internet in recent days.
First up, protected bike lanes are on the rise in the United States:
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Pacific Northwest News
- Parking power prevails (for now): PBOT pulls plug on 28th Ave bike lanes | BikePortland.org
- Ramps to Nowhere: A word on behalf of ‘Seattle process’ | Crosscut.com
- City of Portland orders removal of ‘America’s bike capital’ mural from downtown wall | BikePortland.org
- Bicyclist in critical condition following collision with bus » Kitsap Sun
- Driver who caused fatal I-405 crash pleads guilty | The Today File | Seattle Times
- Story from the Sole: Dr. Jason Mendoza and his Walking School Bus Study » Feet First
- BTSD Spotlight: Seattle Tornado of Fun! | League of American Bicyclists
- Car-Free in the North Cascades: Washington’s Mountainside Ciclovia | Washington Bikes
- Pedestrian hit by driver at 35th and Barton | West Seattle Blog
- Walking While Fat and Female – Or, Why I Don’t Care Not All Men are Like That | Courtney Meaker
- Investigators Asking For Help in Locating Hit and Run Driver | SPD Blotter
- Tunnel partner known to fight tough with public agencies | Local News | The Seattle Times
- Employment « Cycle Swift – Apply by Thursday
- WSDOT Head: “We Are Concerned” About Future of Tunnel Project | Seattle Met
- GGLO earns Gold BizCycle Certification | Cascade Bicycle Club
- On the waterfront plan – contradictions abound | Crosscut.com – “In some ways, it’s a highway disguised as a park.” Yup.
- What Astonished Us About Bike To School Day Was Way More Than Numbers » Seattle Neighborhood Greenways
- Vancouver teachers forced to pay for parking starting next school year – BC | Globalnews.ca
Halftime show! Is this the best tall bike photobomb ever?
National & Global News
- Safety advocates warn against raising limits on truck size, weight | Public Health Newswire
- How Being Hit by a Vehicle Changed Times Colleagues’ Lives – NYTimes.com
- Christie Blatchford: Family of teen fatally struck by SUV sued by motorist for her ‘pain and suffering’ | National Post
- Council opts for 3 lanes, bike lanes on Fremont Street – The Register-Mail – Galesburg, IL – My old stomping grounds getting in on complete streets!
- Startup by former Alta executives scores Philadelphia bike share contract | BikePortland.org
- 1 dead, 6 hurt when SUV crashes into Buena Park ice cream parlor line – Los Angeles Times
- New Investor Considered for Citi Bike – WSJ.com
- UPDATE: Bike Funding Cut from TIGER | League of American Bicyclists – We cannot let this pass.
- Dallas has a new bicycle coordinator who’s very eager to roll out the bike plan (from 2011) | Dallas Morning News
- Low-Income Americans Walk and Bike to Work the Most | Streetsblog USA
- Emanuel tells his drivers to slow down – chicagotribune.com – Caught speeding all over the place.
- Remembering Jim Oberstar, Champion of Bicycling in America | PeopleForBikes
- Tulsa’s First Open Streets Event Reimagines Notorious Parking Crater | Streetsblog USA
- Why it makes sense to bike without a helmet — Howie Chong : Howie Chong
- May is #Bikenomics Month @ The Path Less Pedaled – Drawing little bikes on receipts so people know you biked to their business.
- Kentucky Mom Prevails Against Cops Who Criminalized Her Bike Commute | Streetsblog USA
- How Montreal built a bike lane by debunking the autoparkolypse | PeopleForBikes
- Google: Driverless cars are mastering city streets | The Associated Press
- Mwahaha! Thief who stole electric bike calls owner for help recharging it | Grist
- Taking the Wrong Route to Bike Lane Benefits: A Rebuttal to 538 | Streetsblog USA
- Survey: Millennials Willing to Relocate for Better Transportation Options | Streetsblog USA
- Why cyclists should be able to roll through stop signs and ride through red lights – Vox
This is an open thread.
Comments
4 responses to “Bike News Roundup: Washington State has a mountainside ciclovía?”
Ah that same cr*p study from Australia claimimg that fewer people ride bicycles because helmets are required. Therefore don’t wear a helmet because other things you do are equally dangerous.
I am again forced to repeat “Corelation does not equal causality.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation
Also anyone who downhill skis may have noticed that even without a rule requiring a helmet many people have chosen to do so. Why? Because as the author points out, head injuries occure from many activities and as people become aware of the danger, change their actions. I would suspect that auto drivers are more likely to start wearing a helmet than bicycle helmet laws get repealed.
On the car free ride, the same is true for the road through Mt. Rainer National park.
http://www.wsdot.com/traffic/passes/passinformation.aspx#chinookpasssr410link
It appears that the opening is scheduled for memorial day weekend, so go May 24/25th! For a car free ride up the pass.
I haven’t heard of this before. So the road crews are only clearing M-F? Are the gates signed such that you should keep out, but there is no active enforcement?
Or is this non-motorized use somehow sanctioned?
Thanks.
Sea levels rise by 4 ft:… guess which tunnel entrance will be underwater.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/13/science/earth/collapse-of-parts-of-west-antarctica-ice-sheet-has-begun-scientists-say.html
http://sealevel.climatecentral.org/surgingseas/place/cities/WA/Seattle#show=cities¢er=16/47.6043/-122.3368&surge=4