Bike News Roundup: Dodging bullets on an Olympia mountain bike trail

It's time for the Bike News Roundup! Here's some stuff floating around the web recently that caught out eye.

First up, at least one extremely irresponsible person nearly shot and killed a group of people mountain biking in Capitol State Forest near Olympia. No matter your opinion on guns and no matter if shooting is legal where you are, shooting down a road and across trails in low-visibility conditions is unbelievably stupid and dangerous. This video is a great illustration of why. Luckily, it did not end in tragedy.

Pacific Northwest News

• The Real-Life Superhero Who Beats the Cops to Bike Thieves | Outside Online
• Cops Return Man's Stolen Bike After Lake City Sleuthing | SPD Blotter
• The War on Bikes should be history | Crosscut
• 2016 General Election Endorsements - The Urbanist
• New Seattle freight lab tackles urban delivery congestion | AP
• Sidewalk 'future subway' messages promote light rail. Free speech or 'graffiti'? | The Seattle Times - Someone who tags using chalk is not very good at graffiti.
• Bike Index's September 2016 bike recoveries | Bike Index
• New SR 520 bridge lights: too bright? | KING5.com
• No, self-driving cars aren't 'The Answer' | The Seattle Times
• Seattle Launches Safe Routes to School "Let's Go" Program
• Preserving The Ramps To Nowhere Is A Broken Symbol - The Urbanist
• Amazon's secretive drive-up grocery store takes shape in Seattle neighborhood - GeekWire - It's illegal to build affordable houses that don't have car parking, but it's legal to build a brand new drive-through business. Seattle's development rules are all backwards. What kind of city do we want to build?
• Pedestrian struck by car in Bellevue dies | The Seattle Times
• Ex-Seahawk Derrick Coleman pleads guilty in Bellevue wreck - seattlepi.com
• Metro plans overhaul of overnight bus service | The Seattle Times
• High Time For High-Rise: Reduced Rezones Do Not Reduce Displacement - The Urbanist
• The Overhead Wire: NACTO Desiging Cities Seattle 2016 Plenary Recordings - If you only have time for one, listen to Tamika Butler.
• Fact Checking Marty Kaplan, the Queen Anne Homeowner Who Wants to Stop Backyard Cottages | The C Is for crank
• Should America's wilderness be open to mountain bikes? Bellingham group says no | The News Tribune
• Two kids hit by cars in past 8 days while walking to school in Federal Way district | Q13 FOX News
• 'Every day I think about the horrible accident:' Ride the Ducks CEO | KOMO
• Politics podcast: Talking bike-share and Seattle's #BlocktheBunker movement on The Overcast | The Seattle Times
• Video: Mom warns son to 'watch out for idiots,' rear-ends his motorcycle in Kent - seattlepi.com
• The 50 Best Bike Cities of 2016 : 6: Minneapolis | Bicycling
• 'It's a very dangerous walk:' Lynnwood parents say trek to school isn't safe for kids | KOMO
• Next for Melrose and Pine: Rapha Clubhouse Seattle | CHS Capitol Hill Seattle
• Teen Fitness Success Story: Behind the Major Taylor Cycling Project
• Dow Constantine & Denis Hayes: Self-Driving Cars Are a Distraction - Slog - The Stranger
• Road deaths are up by a lot in Washington state | KUOW News and Information
• 1 killed after car crashes into tent near I-5 offramp in Seattle's University District | The Seattle Times
• Seattle crosswalk dedicated to memory of woodcarver killed by police in 2010 | The Seattle Times
• Why Install On-Street Bike Corrals? - The Urbanist
• Girl on bike sues after off-duty Tacoma cop throws her down | KOMO
• Brazen thief gets away with $7K worth of bikes in broad daylight | Q13 FOX News
• Couple injured when small SUV hits tandem bike in Lacey | The Olympian
• The Burke-Gilman Trail Is Getting A New Paint Job - The Urbanist
• I almost wasn't | Jessica Cutler
• The Future University District (Brooklyn) Station: Everything You Wanted To Know And More - The Urbanist

Halftime Show! So many people have sent me this video. I'm glad the lesson is spreading. It would be great if this were part of our culture's collective consciousness:

National & Global News

• Stuck in Traffic, Polluting the Inside of Our Cars - The New York Times
• Anti-theft measures cut bike thefts by 60 per cent on Granville Island | Vancouver Sun
• Transit App 4.0: Transit Navigation Revolutionized - The Urbanist
• Tsawwassen Mills shoppers trapped for up to 4 hours in parking lot chaos | Daily Hive Vancouver
• Fatal teen car crashes on the rise | TheHill
• Bike lanes are a sound public health investment | Reuters
• The Highway Era Is Over. When Will Our Institutions Catch Up? | Streetsblog USA
• An Alarming 10% Rise in Traffic Deaths in the First Half of 2016 - The New York Times
• Polk man arrested, charged with 'possession of dairy crate' | WFLA.com - The crate was attached to his bike.
• Moving Forward on the Road to Zero Traffic Fatalities | Department of Transportation
• Bike manufacturer sees huge reduction in delivery damage by printing TV on the box - Cycling Weekly
• Numbers show more kids dying in car accidents | KING5.com
• People on Bikes Take Over Fifth Ave to Demand Safe Streets From de Blasio | Streetsblog New York City
• Finding kindness on a cross-country bicycle ride | The Seattle Times
• How bicycle lanes are evolving around the world | The Seattle Times
• Baltimore's first bike-share rentals coming in October - Baltimore Business Journal
• Divvy Is Usually Faster Than Public Transportation | Chicago magazine | Politics & City Life April 2015

This is an open thread.