Bike News Roundup: NYC’s misguided crackdown on workers using e-bikes

It's time for the Bike News Roundup! Here's a look at some stuff going around the ol' web lately. This is an open thread.

First up, New York City continues its misguided crackdown on delivery workers using e-bikes. A short documentary by Jing Wang shows how Mayor Bill de Blasio's policy hurts immigrant workers in the city:

Pacific Northwest News

• A Multimodal Multi-Bike Day: How Bikeshare Comes in Handy for a Bike Owner - Bike Style Life
• Bellingham plans bike, pedestrian changes for greater safety | king5.com
• Seattle hit and run victim's family worried guilty driver could get light sentence - Q13 FOX News
• Mayor Durkan Cancels 35th Ave NE Bike Lanes, Caves To Anti-Safe Streets Advocates The Urbanist
• The 35th Disaster: How the City Should Learn from Metro | Seattle Transit Blog
• Seattle is splitting, not dying | March 27 - April 2, 2019 | Real Change
• Trail connection across Factoria Boulevard begins work in 2019 | Bellevue Reporter
• Roosevelt and Green Lake See Rollout of Walking, Biking, and Transit Infrastructure The Urbanist
• Bike Master Plan Update: Fewer Protected Lanes, Longer Delays | The C Is for crank
• Man Arrested, Bikes Recovered, Following Fremont Burglary | SPD Blotter
• KUOW - Seattle steps back from bike lane commitments
• Durkan, SDOT Get an Earful from Advocates About Proposed Bike Plan Cuts | The C Is for crank
• "The Mayor Does Not Care About Bikes": Advocates United In Opposition to Bike Plan Cuts | The C Is for crank
• Sound Transit rethinking fare enforcement | Seattle Transit Blog
• Eleven Projects Vanished From the City's Bike Master Plan Update. Here's What Happened to Them. | The C Is for crank
• A Conversation with Newly Retired Councilmember Rob Johnson | The Urbanist
• Arrest made in 1972 Jody Loomis homicide cold case in Snohomish County | king5.com
• A Safer 4th & Jackson and an "Iconic" Union Station | Seattle Transit Blog
• Interurban Trail to close as part of 228th St. overpass project | City of Kent News | City of Kent
• The Economic Value of Actually Following Through on a Bike Plan - Streetsblog USA
• King County population growth hits decade low, census data shows - The Seattle Times
• Visualize your company's commute habits using our Commute Trip Reduction Tableau Tool.
• Ridership Jumped 400% When Seattle Protected a Bike Lane - Streetsblog USA
• KUOW - Commuter conundrum: how to bike in a lane-light town?
• Two former Durkan staffers alleged mistreatment in Seattle mayor's office | Crosscut
• Golf Revenues Remain On Downward Trajectory, Raising Questions About Sustainability | The C Is for crank
• Upcoming info session about Ballard Missing Link construction - My Ballard
• Phoenix Will Continue to Let People to Die in the Streets - Streetsblog USA
• 3-year-old boy killed in Kirkland parking lot | KOMO
• Seattle's got terrible sidewalks. You can help fix them. | Crosscut
• Yakima mayor drives SUV into Rite Aid building - The Seattle Times
• The Future of Bikes on Bell Street Park | The Urbanist
• "I'm Here Because I'm Worried": South Seattle Responds to Scaled-Back Bike Plan | The C Is for crank
• Here's why I think we should change stop sign laws for bicycle users - BikePortland.org
• The $70,000 Bike Lane Not Coming to Wallingford | The Urbanist
• We studied how we use public spaces. And the results may surprise you. | SDOT Blog
• The WSDOT Blog - Washington State Department of Transportation: New bicyclist and pedestrian safety messages, among others, added to Department of Licensing driver guides

National & Global News

• Bike Index launches free Lightspeed and Ascend POS integrations and crests over $7 million in bicycle recoveries. | Bicycle Retailer and Industry News
• Amsterdam's 9-Year-Old 'Bike Mayor' On How to Make the City Safe for Kids - Streetsblog USA
• Opinion | Why Housing Policy Is Climate Policy - The New York Times
• Arkansas Passes the 'Idaho Stop,' Allowing Cyclists to Yield at Red Lights - Streetsblog USA
• Denver puts on its big-city pants, announces a transportation department that could supplement RTD - Denverite, the Denver site!
• Speed limit increases tied to 37,000 deaths | Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
• How border patrol chases have spun out of control, with deadly consequences - Los Angeles Times
• Chainbreaker Bike Book: An Illustrated Manual of Radical .. | Microcosm Publishing | Microcosm Publishing - A DIY bike maintenance classic got a refresh.
• Rad Power Bikes sues rival e-bike company, claiming copyright infringement and false advertising | Bicycle Retailer and Industry News
• The Economic Value of Actually Following Through on a Bike Plan - Streetsblog USA
• Sunnyvale Re-evaluates Bike Share Program After Lime Withdraws - The Silicon Valley Voice
• Benedict Cumberbatch "slapped" by cyclist he knocked off bike while driving his Lamborghini | road.cc
• Barcelona, Spain's urban plan: could superblocks work in the United States? - Vox
• DRW's AVID Program Responds to KOMO's "Seattle is Dying" - Disability Rights Washington
• Uber says it fixed electric bikes that had similar problems to bikes Lyft recalled - The Washington Post
• Transportation For America - Taming the TIGER: Trump turns innovative grant program into another roads program
• Cambridge's Ambitious Protected Bike Lane Law - CityLab
• 84 Million Trips Taken on Shared Bikes and Scooters Across the U.S. in 2018 | National Association of City Transportation Officials
• Cyclist Killed In Northeast Was A Longtime Bike Advocate Who 'Lived And Breathed Making The Streets Safer' | DCist
• Anatomy of a Debacle: Uber Threw Lyft-Owned Citi Bike Under the Bus - Streetsblog New York City
• Parking Enforcers Who Chalk Tires Violate The Constitution, Court Rules : NPR
• Beyond the Crash Report: Finding Additional Data on Pedestrian Crashes | AmericaWalks
• When a Town Takes Uber Instead of Public Transit - CityLab
• Amazon Is Aggressively Pursuing Big Oil as It Stalls Out on Clean Energy
• The Green New Deal Must Prioritize Transit, Group Says - Streetsblog USA
• Petition Google: Show the true cost of driving and carbon emissions in Google Maps. Change.org