Bike News Roundup: America’s pedestrian safety crisis
by Tom Fucoloro from Seattle Bike Blog on (#4XB3R)
It's time for the final Bike News Roundup of news from the 2010s!
First up, if you didn't catch Angie Schmitt's recent talk about America's pedestrian safety crisis, Rooted In Rights was there to record and stream it:
Pacific Northwest News
- A feat for the feet: A decade for Kitsap's car-less | Kitsap Sun
- A Week After Two Pedestrians Were Killed on Aurora Avenue, Mayor Durkan Orders a Reduction in Speed Limits - Slog - The Stranger
- Arena's Protected Bike Lane Component Features a Zigzag and a Dead End | The Urbanist
- Big bike riding gains in 2019 - West Seattle Bike Connections
- Burien crash victim recovers, leaves hospital; grandson needs extended care | KOMO
- Car-sharing service Share Now, created in car2go merger, announces shutdown of Seattle, North America operations - The Seattle Times
- Changing Freeway Names Offers Path to Removing I-5 from Downtown Seattle | The Urbanist
- Cyclist sues Bellingham, says arrest violated rights | KIRO 7
- Feds target Seattle transportation projects as part of criminal inquiry | Crosscut
- Fix Aurora Avenue Now | The Urbanist
- Fixing the Pedestrian Safety Crisis - Seattle Neighborhood Greenways
- Gov. Brown calls for pause on I-5 Rose Quarter project - BikePortland.org
- Hauling half a ton of food by bike - West Seattle Bike Connections
- I-5 Seattle Mess: Don't Just Lid It | Post Alley
- Langley twins, just 4 years old, escape car crash and climb embankment to find help | The Seattle Times
- Let us know - how are you impacted by broken Sound Transit elevators and escalators? - Rooted in Rights
- Lid I-5 or Get Rid of I-5? - Features - The Stranger
- Long road ahead as Washington transportation officials recommend per-mile charge to replace the state's gas tax - The Seattle Times
- Magnolia residents' AI-powered surveillance camera tracks people, cars at entrance to neighborhood, experts caution bias - The Seattle Times
- Majority of voters paying Sound Transit's car-tab taxes opposed I-976 - The Seattle Times
- New Mobility Action Plan for Getting Around North Downtown
- New span completes missing link for Bainbridge trails | Bainbridge Island Review
- Palouse to Cascades State Park Trail featured in Rails to Trails magazine - Biking Bis
- Puyallup to pay millions to skateboarder badly hurt when hit by pickup in crosswalk - The Seattle Times
- Scooters would be allowed in bike lanes, but not on sidewalks, under Seattle proposal - The Seattle Times
- Seattle's Newest Council Member, Alex Pedersen, In Three Meetings | THE C IS FOR CRANK
- Skip the Ballot, Seattle Should Enact Congestion Pricing As a Pilot Program | The Urbanist
- Sound Transit to Washington state Legislature: Let's reduce car-tab taxes - The Seattle Times
- State Commission: Replace Gas Tax with Road Usage Charge, but Keep Highways-Only Earmark | The Urbanist
- Statement from the Puyallup Tribal Council regarding the LNG project
- The $10 Million Plan for Adaptive Signals on Denny Way | The Urbanist
- The decade in demographics: Top 5 changes in the Seattle area | The Seattle Times
- The Top 2019 Wins for Bikes - Washington Bikes
- Wheeling Season: Bike Advocacy Comes Full Circle | The Urbanist
All way walk intersections is not served well with the current law. You can't legally enter the intersection when the flashing don't walk begins. I think DC style countdown that begins with start of walk and continues on until the end of don't walk is a great system to explore. pic.twitter.com/xssG7UhASs
- Dongho Chang (@dongho_chang) December 12, 2019
National & Global News
- AAA report: Drivers who use autopilot and advanced driver-assistance technology are more distracted - CBS News
- Bike share: The decade's biggest transportation success story - Curbed
- Cannonball Run Record | What's Wrong With Car Culture
- Iowa driver hit teen girl because she's 'Mexican,' cops say | Idaho Statesman
- Men driving trucks, SUVs shamed by new NYC safety campaign - New York Daily News
- Most Electric Scooter Riders Are Men. Here's Why. - CityLab
- Paris Wants a Tax to Cover Amazon Delivery Impacts - CityLab
- Self-Driving Mercedes Will Be Programmed To Sacrifice Pedestrians To S
- Streetsies 2019: And the Winners Are" - Streetsblog USA
- Tesla Cybertruck Won't Be Legal In Europe | CarBuzz
- The Guardian view on car culture: change is coming | Transport policy | The Guardian
- Think Tank Offers Road Map to Break the Car Culture - Streetsblog USA
- This was the decade of the bicycle. What's next? | TreeHugger
- Why SUVs are getting bigger and bigger: GM, Toyota, Ford enlarge hefty vehicles
This is an open thread.