Bike News Roundup: ‘How highways wrecked American cities’

It's time for the Bike News Roundup! Lots of good stuff floating around the web lately, so let's get right to it.

First up, Vox created a short and punchy video report outlining "how highways wrecked American cities." Definitely worth the 4:38:

Pacific Northwest News

• Plan strives to make Victoria "the best small cycling city in the world"
• The Time Is Ripe To Build A School In Downtown Seattle - The Urbanist - A key missing piece keeping Seattle from having a truly walkable and bikeable downtown.
• Bike corridor to provide safer route for Olympia riders | The Olympian
• McGinn: Seattle Times continues phony 'war on cars' | Crosscut
• Vancouver records spectacular increases in cycling trips | Georgia Straight
• How To Build Bike Lanes On 4th Avenue - The Urbanist - Let's do it!
• Who really 'speaks' for neighborhoods? | Crosscut - Great thoughts on how Seattle neighborhood organizing works (and doesn't). As someone who has been to many different neighborhood councils, associations and clubs, Mike McGinn's analysis here is spot on. Some are great, some aren't, and there are other ways to get organized and make change (see also: Seattle Neighborhood Greenways)
• Tim Eyman Gives Up on Anti-Light Rail Initiative - Slog - The Stranger - Instead, he'll focus on an initiative called "We Love Our Cars." Yes, really.
• Craig Hill: South Sound bike polo group strives to teach game | The News Tribune
• Bicyclist critically hurt in crash near I-5 exit in Bellingham | Bellingham Herald
• The Center City Mobility Plan: Sensible Study or a Process Punt? | Seattle Transit Blog - Great counterpoint to all the Center City Mobility Plan bashing I've been writing.
• Critical mass say don't evict homeless from the Jungle | Q13 FOX News
• Sound Transit's Updated ST3 Plan: Bigger, Faster, Stronger | Seattle Transit Blog
• More money for Mercer to make commute more reliable, not faster | KIRO-TV
• Driver Arrested After Fatal Ballard Collision | SPD Blotter
• Our Improbable Growth Targets | Seattle Transit Blog
• Tacoma protesters want cop fired over rough arrest of teen girl | The Seattle Times - She was very roughly arrested for biking through a parking lot. Her brother got a ticket for not wearing a helmet.
• Seattle Weekly | Viazoom! Hunting for Traffic Jams, and Not Finding
• Welcome to the SDOT Sign Shop! | SDOT Blog
• Has Seattle declared a war on cars? | KUOW News and Information - Featuring yours truly debating Brier Dudley at the Seattle Times.
• Photos: Paving the Lake to Sound Trail - King County Parks Plog
• Episode 6 - Can't Ride It If They Stole It | The Bicycle Story - Featuring yours truly.
• City Betrays Cyclists - News - The Stranger
• Charges filed against driver in crash that injured 2 girls - seattlepi.com
• Cops Arrest Three After Bike Stolen From REI Display Shows Up On Craigslist | SPD Blotter
• Man finds his stolen bike being offered for sale, lets undercover cops meet with 'seller' | Q13 FOX News
• The Secret to a Successful Bike Share | Governing.com
• #HiddenGemSEA on Tagboard
• Seattle spending $651K on software to improve traffic flow | The Seattle Times
• How to Celebrate a New U.S. Bicycle Route, John Pope style | Adventure Cycling Association
• Seattle's "Viadoom 2016" - Another Carmageddon That Wasn't | Streetsblog USA
• Expedia tackles sticky issue of commute at future Seattle campus | The Seattle Times - Though not mentioned in this story, the EIS predicts about 5% of employees will bike when the campus opens, growing to 10% over the next decade and a half. Honestly, I think they can aim higher than that since the Elliott Bay Trail will connect through the downtown waterfront in the next couple years (assuming no more big Bertha delays, of course). The Ballard Bridge will remain a major hurdle, though.
• "We're winning" efforts to save the John Wayne Pioneer Trail Biking Bis
• Cyclist struck by then-Seattle Councilmember Sally Clark to get $400,000 settlement | The Seattle Times
• Frantic father killed in crash while looking for child | The Seattle Times
• State: 75 mph too fast for eastern section of I-90 - seattlepi.com
• Here's what designing a new lid over I-5 between Capitol Hill and downtown looks like | CHS Capitol Hill Seattle
• Detectives Investigate Fatal Vehicle vs Pedestrian Collision | Snohomish County
• A bicycle is stolen every hour in Seattle, and the problem is getting worse fast | Bicycle Security Advocates
• Voters Strongly Favor Park and Rides Over Bike and Pedestrian Access | Seattle Met
• 'Now or never': 75 bicyclists sneak onto closed viaduct for night ride | The Seattle Times
• Tell your bicycle theft story - Bicycle Security Advocates
• Northwest drivers cooling off when it comes to road rage | KING5.com - Have you noticed things getting better? I feel like it's about the same as ever, but I hope this survey is right.
• State increases proposed penalty against Ride the Ducks for deadly crash | The Seattle Times
• Bicyclist who collided with Everett school bus dies | HeraldNet.com
• A vision for traffic diverters at every neighborhood greenway crossing of a major street - BikePortland.org - Yes!
• Parking Double Standard at Light Rail? | Seattle Met
• ST3 Parking: $661M at $80k Per Space | Seattle Transit Blog
• What should Capitol Hill's first pavement park look like? | CHS Capitol Hill Seattle
• 'He's been very brave': Father of boy hit at bus stop discusses crash | KOMO
• Man arrested for DUI, vehicular homicide following deadly Puyallup crash | KOMO
• Port of Seattle CEO arrested on suspicion of DUI | The Seattle Times
• Seattlish - Seattle sees biggest jump in bus riders of any U.S. city
• City debuts new 'Tuff Curb' to create physical separation for bikeways - BikePortland.org

Halftime show! Here's a damn terrifying bike cam video from Shoreline. Person driving tries to kill a man riding a bike, who manages to escape unharmed by hopping over a traffic island and fleeing into neighborhood streets.

National & Global News

• New Blueprint Spreads the Gospel of Overnight Bike Lanes - Next City
• Ryanair CEO - "Take cyclists out and shoot them" | road.cc - In case you didn't already know to never fly Ryanair. It's not worth the savings even if their CEO wasn't a terrible human being.
• America! The Cyclist Is Not Your Enemy - WSJ
• US DOT Secretary Anthony Foxx on the end of favoring cars - BikePortland.org
• It's No Accident: Advocates Want to Speak of Car 'Crashes' Instead - The New York Times - Really great story on the history of using the word "accident." It was purposefully adopted by the auto industry, inspired by factories trying to distance themselves from worker injuries by putting the responsibility on the worker to prevent an "accident." In other words, it was no accident that everyone uses the term now to describe any time a car runs into a thing or a person.
• The Supply And Demand Of Street Space - The Urbanist
• This Is a Bad Sign | Music Blog | St. Louis News and Events | Riverfront Times - Seattle knows this sign well. Another city injures a bunch of people on bikes by installing streetcar tracks. This time it's my hometown, and this is one of the most bustling and lively commercial streets in the region (in other words, the exact place you'd expect a lot of people to bike).
• Bike Index's May 2016 bike recoveries
• When New York City tried to ban cars - the extraordinary story of 'Gridlock Sam' | Cities | The Guardian
• Video catches man running over motorcycle in road rage incident | Bellingham Herald
• Cyclists deserve protection during construction too. : TreeHugger
• Google Patents "Flypaper" to Save Pedestrians By Sticking Them to Car Hoods | Streetsblog USA - You laugh now, but we have to be vigilant to protect the basic rights of people not in self-driving cars to have a safe and convenient access to our public streets. So many self-driving car scenarios only work if you remove all the people from the streets.
• Complete streets - Adam Zyglis - Love this illustration. Imagining a twist on this where the suit guy rolling it back is replaced by kids and community organizers pushing for safe streets. But still, great.
• Walk signals are bad for walking - Greater Greater Washington - If you need a walk signal, you've already lost your true walkability. Walk signals are car infrastructure.
• Citi Bike ridership up 110% in New York City | am New York
• SUV And Truck Sales Are Driving U.S. Auto Sales Higher - Forbes - What could go wrong?
• Citing Deaths, Lawyer Calls For Ban Of Duck Boats CBS Boston
• Bicycles are instantaneous teleportation devices, says science | PeopleForBikes
• Building a Bikeable City for All - Next City
• Bike path collapses above beach in Rio de Janeiro, killing at least two | CyclingTips
• Confirmed: Bob Dylan Did Co-Write Protest Song About Robert Moses With Jane Jacobs: Gothamist

This is an open thread.