It’s time for the Bike News Roundup! The comments below are also open to whatever at-least-somewhat relevant topic you want to discuss.

First up, here’s how Oslo is working to go car-free in its city center. A hopeful note for Seattle: Around the 8:00 mark they talk about the recent launch of a new bigger and better bike share system to replace their old lagging system. They key to success: More stations serving more places.

Pacific Northwest News

• Ride the Ducks involved in third crash since fatal 2015 incident | My Northwest – Ban them already. They are not safe.
• Bellingham bicyclist dies in crash on Old Fairhaven Parkway | Bellingham Herald
• What Taichung Bikeshare Can Teach Seattle » The Urbanist
• First Parklet of 2017 Open in Ballard | SDOT Blog
• Capitol Retrospective | Dodge’s Triangle: Seattle’s smallest known piece of private property | CHS Capitol Hill Seattle – That strange intersection at 12th/Madison/Union is even stranger than you thought.
• As Bertha Nears the Finish Line, Could the Tunnel Serve Transit? | Seattle Transit Blog
• Measure would force Seattle to cover Highway 99 tunnel cost overruns | The Seattle Times
• What would it take for you to ride your bike more? | KUOW News and Information
• Seattle DJC.com – Property near U Village sold; bike shop planned – Near Counterbalance Bicycles.
• When Common Sense is Wrong, and Intuitions Fail | Seattle Transit Blog – Cliff Mass argues that city streets should be made more dangerous even though the data shows it wouldn’t move more cars. Because … he feels like it would be better? Sad he didn’t take the time to look at the data before writing.
• What happens to Bertha after digging is done? We’ve got answers | The Seattle Times
• How a group of volunteers are giving everyone a chance to cycle | Sustrans
• Fast ferry service looking at July 10 start | KING5.com – Plan your summer bike adventures accordingly :-)
• Study Shows No Significant Impact to Mercer Island | Seattle Transit Blog
• Vandals hit at least 11 Biketown stations, over 200 bikes – UPDATED – BikePortland.org
• Man drives through pot-shop wall — then buys a joint | The Seattle Times – The buying-a-joint-after-crashing detail is a bit funny. The lack of any kind of charges after he nearly killed a shop employee, that’s less funny.
• Beyond vandalism, Biketown faces ridership test ahead of summer season – BikePortland.org
• Creating Intentional Space for Women on Bikes — Life on Two Wheels
• Will the last middle-class person leaving Seattle turn out the lights? | The Seattle Times
• Seattle ‘duck boat’ reported problems days before crash: lawyer | Reuters – Seriously, how have we not banned them yet?
• Council Connection » Update on Backyard Cottage Legislation & Next Steps – What housing shortage? No, we need to spend lots of money and time studying a type of development that almost nobody opposes.
• Snowbound North Cascades Highway could be closed into June | The Seattle Times
• It’s now time to save the John Wayne Pioneer Trail in Washington state » Biking Bis – I get the feeling this won’t be the last time we see this headline.
• Transforming a commercial strip corridor | CNU – Great plans in Tukwila.
• Why Seattle’s new utility-billing system was 11 months late and $43M over budget | The Seattle Times – That’s a lot of money. Like, 150 years worth of Pronto budget shortfalls (assuming it never gained any ridership or sponsorships).
• Jean’s View: What killed Pronto? | West Seattle Herald / White Center News – Hard to disagree with much of Jean’s take here (she was on the Transpo Committee during the effort to launch it).
• Traffic ‘improvements’ have residents questioning city leaders | KIRO-TV – Hey folks in Kenmore, time to come to the defense of city safe streets work!
• Dog team searches Sol Duc area for missing hiker | Peninsula Daily News – The search for a young Port Townsend man apparently on a solo bike camping trip continues. Our best wishes go to him and his friends and family.
• Beyond bikes: Collaborating across sectors for collective good | Cascade Bicycle Club

National & Global News

• As bike lanes increase, so does the bike business in Honolulu | KHON2
• Driver in deadly Texas church bus crash was texting, witness says | abc7news.com
• Atlanta’s Freeway Collapse: A Case Study in Traffic Demand – CityLab
• Bike Index’s March 2017 recoveries!
• Why Bike Helmet Laws Don’t Work – CityLab
• Black bike advocates say they’ll fight CPD’s biased ticketing practices | Transportation | Chicago Reader
• Now on your smartphone: A virtual-reality vision of your future street | PeopleForBikes
• Cycle freight: why the bike is good for moving more than people | Environment | The Guardian
• The “Jaywalker” Brutalized By Sacramento Police Was Stopped for No Reason at All – Streetsblog USA
• Children ‘cannot detect’ cars travelling faster than 20mph – Telegraph
• Are “Rogue” Bike-Share Systems Bad for Cities? – Next City