Bike News Roundup: 1975 report suggests building transit tunnel to replace the Viaduct
by Tom Fucoloro from Seattle Bike Blog on (#19VKF)
It's time for the Bike News Roundup! Here's a look at some of the bikey stuff floating around the web recently.
First up! This 1975 archive report from KOMO about mass transit in Seattle is worth all 25 minutes of your time. They even talk about how a transit tunnel downtown could allow us to tear down the viaduct. Hey, we built that tunnel decades ago. Let's get going on that teardown!
Pacific Northwest News
- Rob Johnson to be new Transportation Board Chair | Regional View
- Hit-and-run driver sought in death of Spanaway bicyclist | The News Tribune
- Sisters to hospital after hit by driver in Broadway crosswalk | CHS Capitol Hill Seattle
- Plans for safer 10th/John crossing to Capitol Hill Station, Melrose enhancements make street fund cut | CHS Capitol Hill Seattle
- Bicycle patrols return to Bellevue | KIRO-TV
- EMPLOYMENT | Outdoors for All Foundation - Cool seasonal job!
- On Lake Union, bikes and water don't mix | KING5.com - That wasn't very nice.
- BMW unveils ReachNow car share on Capitol Hill | CHS Capitol Hill Seattle
- Family of youngest Ride the Ducks victim files suit - seattlepi.com
- Is it possible to put a bike lane on I-5 through Seattle? - Local News | MyNorthwest.com - KIRO Radio listeners don't seem to like my plan very much :-)
- Police release new details in suspected carjacking, fatal West Seattle crash | The Seattle Times
- Swift Campout - Swift Industries - Gonna be awesome! Organize a bike campout in late June.
- Streets+Beets 2016 - Alleycat Acres - June 12
- Sinkhole led to big worries over Bertha's tunnel-digging work | The Seattle Times - This report does not inspire confidence.
- Parking Madness 2016 Championship: Federal Way vs. Louisville | Streetsblog USA - After making it all the way to the finals, including major upsets like its semi-final win over Dallas, Federal Way falls to Louisville's formidable SoBro neighborhood.
- 'A lot of fine tuning': Bike-share warning from Seattle to Vancouver | CTV Vancouver News
- Positive 2015 results - and a couple bad data points - in Capitol Hill EcoDistrict Index | CHS Capitol Hill Seattle
- A 'Bike Batman' in Seattle Is Combating Rampant Bike Theft - CityLab
- Bike Index's March 2016 recoveries!
- The Case for Expanding and Improving Sound Transit | Seattle Met
- How to Fix ST3 so Seattle Will Vote For It | Seattle Transit Blog
- ERNEST BAY Obituary - Puyallup, WA | News Tribune (Tacoma) - Bay was a force behind the Foothills Trail. Thanks, Ernie! We all owe you.
- Good Weather bike shop coming to second floor Pike/Pine space | CHS Capitol Hill Seattle
- Pronto, ORCA Card, and the New Mobility - Slog - The Stranger
- Seattle Seawall Project Sets New Bar for Workforce Diversity - Next City
- 2 dead, 2 injured in Tacoma car crash | KING5.com
- Mukilteo wants your feedback! | Cascade Bicycle Club
- Seattle resident's email may have triggered investigation of transportation chief | The Seattle Times - Interesting how one email from a person who read a Seattle Times column (and a not-very-good one at that) can trigger a $20,000 investigation. We take ethics concerns seriously and await the investigation's outcome, but this just seems like an odd process.
- Planning underway for the John Wayne Pioneer Trail | Cascade Bicycle Club
- Tunnel project injuries result in about $700,000 in claims - seattlepi.com
- Community groups responding to traffic safety concerns at Bailey Gatzert Elementary | The Capitol Hill Times
- Woman crashes in Ravenna after 100-mph chase - seattlepi.com
- Police: Witness detained driver in fatal First Hill crash - seattlepi.com
- Westlake Avenue Transit Improvements: Will They Fall Short? - The Urbanist
- Ride the Ducks admits to 463 violations, agrees to pay fine | The Seattle Times
- Officials identify pedestrian fatally struck by truck in Tacoma | The News Tribune
- An Irish tradition: The green stripe painting in Seattle | KIRO-TV - Next year, let's make it a green bike lane!
- BikeLoudPDX hits Active Transportation Summit with "not-so-cool infrastructure" flyer - BikePortland.org
- 3 students hurt in Ducks crash want to sue Seattle, state | The Seattle Times
Chris Renz unveils a sign honoring his father, who was hit while riding his bicycle in 2014 and later died. #q13news pic.twitter.com/socSKP1dYa
- Dustin Gagne (@Q13_DustinGagne) March 13, 2016
- Data science for safer streets: DataKind Vision Zero project expands to three new cities - Microsoft on the Issues
- Roosevelt High Students learn about Distracted Driving through Virtual Reality Technology
- Another Group of Neighbors Fighting an Apartment Building Because It's "Out of Scale" - - The Stranger
- Seattle Car Share Program Update - People are selling their cars because of car share. This is a good thing.
- Charges: Driver blamed GPS for deadly Burien red-light wreck - seattlepi.com
- Point/Counterpoint: Should the CKC have Rail or BRT, or neither? By David Greschler - Kirkland Views
- A year after launch, ORCA LIFT shows how transit can help confront income inequality - King County
- Bike track proposed for Battle Point Park | Kitsap Sun
- Jobs | Cascade Bicycle Club - Hiring summer camp gig.
Halftime Show! This one's pretty scary: Surveillance video in Ballard captures a very near miss:
National & Global News
- Curb-protected bike lanes rolled out in Chicago - Chicago Tribune
- Separated bike lanes and pedestrian paths planned for South False Creek seawall | Vancitybuzz - More great plans in Vancouver.
- Trader Joe's Parking Lots Aren't Insane. We Are. - Fortune
- Introducing the Pedestrian Pain Index - City Notes
- A new study looks at why bike share is so much safer than regular biking - Vox
- Back when we took traffic deaths more seriously, here's how we commemorated them - Greater Greater Washington
- Inside the Latest "Distracted Pedestrians" Con | Streetsblog New York City
- Anthony Foxx Wants to Repair the Damage Done By Urban Highways | Streetsblog USA
- Bike Share expansion will add hundreds of bikes to Bay Area | KRON4.com
- Highways gutted American cities. So why did they build them? - Vox
- Widow of Anchorage cyclist killed in 2014 says family feels victimized by court ruling | Local News - KTUU.com Anchorage
- Shifting Bike Culture - Submit your experience of feeling rejected by bike culture in some way or read the troubling and illustrative anonymous experiences of others.
- Remixing Great Masterpieces for the Highway Age | Streetsblog USA
- It's Time for U.S. Cities to Ban Right Turns on Red - Next City
- Cyclists in central London set 'to outnumber car drivers' - BBC News
- The Bike Wars Are Over, and the Bikes Won - NYMag
- Boris Johnson: 'I wish I'd built more segregated cycling routes for London' | Environment | The Guardian
- Are American fire trucks too big? | Fire Chief
This is an open thread.