Bike News Roundup: Ghost Bikes

It's time for the Bike News Roundup! Actually, it's well past time. I've apparently totally forgotten to do this since early October, so I've got what might be the biggest Roundup in Seattle Bike Blog history. Oops! I hope you weren't planning to get much more work done today.

First up, Ethan Brooks emailed me this short film he made that broke my heart:

Pacific Northwest News:

• Why Delaware Will Let Cyclists Treat Stop Signs Like Yield Signs | Bicycling
• How Shared Parking Can Reduce Housing Costs and Cut Traffic - Streetsblog USA
• Semi strikes 14-year-old Shorewood High student riding bicycle in Shoreline | The Seattle Times
• Truck-bicycle collision clogs South Seattle streets | The Seattle Times
• Bicyclist, 14, struck by semi truck, critically injured in Shoreline | KOMO
• Car/Pedestrian Collision Investigation at Rainier Avenue South and I-90 | SPD Blotter
• '10 feet away, I can't believe it happened!' Electric bike stolen moment owner turned away | KOMO
• Beyond Backyard Cottages: 10 ideas to address Seattle's housing shortage
• A Cottage Industry: Seattle's housing solution is right in our backyard - Puget Sound Business Journal
• Why Seattleites love to hate the umbrella | The Seattle Times
• Kidical Mass Bike Overnight to Washington State's Illahee State Park - Bike Overnights
• Q&A: Tech's take on bike sharing hits the street in Seattle - Better Bike Share
• Man sues King County after bike wreck leaves him paralyzed | The News Tribune
• One-way reception for Melrose Avenue - Capitol Hill Times
• Oldest surviving structure in Bellevue hit by car | KING5.com
• SDOT Misunderstands #GivePedstheGreen The Urbanist
• We Got Asked to Invest in a Capitol Hill Apartment Building. So We Went to Talk to the Tenants About It. | Seattle Weekly
• Q&A: Can private bike sharing change the course of road design? - Better Bike Share
• Here's one way for vehicle owners to avoid paying Sound Transit's car-tab tax | The Seattle Times
• Moving on from streetcar extension plan, city also ditches Broadway bike and street improvements | CHS Capitol Hill Seattle
• Washington Named the Most Bike-Friendly State | Bicycling.com
• Got land? Seattle does and assessor says it should house the homeless | Crosscut
• All Jaywalk? All Walks vs. All-way Walks and what happened with the changes on Broadway | CHS Capitol Hill Seattle
• It's Time To Connect Georgetown and South Park The Urbanist
• Bike shares in Seattle turn up stolen, vandalized | KOMO
• Two lanes closed on Westlake Avenue " and nobody noticed | The Seattle Times
• Can Seattle rezone away the racial divide in housing? | The Seattle Times
• New Sawant bill: If tenants are priced out, landlords pay | Crosscut
• The International Examiner - LimeBike founder reflects on success of bike sharing network
• Two days, two pedestrians hit on Capitol Hill streets | CHS Capitol Hill Seattle
• MOFO, Chill Out About Bike Shares - Slog - The Stranger
• Transportation For America Statement from Transportation for America on House Passage of THUD Appropriations - Transportation For America
• Protected Bike Lanes Guard Cyclists from Pollution The Urbanist
• Getting There: City floats plan to phase parking lots out of downtown | The Spokesman-Review
• OPCD Releases Final MHA EIS and Zoning Maps The Urbanist
• Columbia City Bike Parking Plan
• What's Next For Seattle's Transportation Benefit District The Urbanist
• 'When do churches stop caring about people more than SUVs?' Seattle church to replace homeless housing with parking spots | The Seattle Times
• Kicking the drive-alone habit has been key to Seattle's economic boom - Mobility Lab
• Different spokes: Test-riding Seattle's three new bike shares - Jill Kimball
• Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler breaks ribs in bicycle crash - BikePortland.org
• Pacific Crest Trail won't be severed, after $1.6M deal with Stevens Pass landowner | The Seattle Times
• Seattle's Bikeshare Pilot Deserves More Scrutiny The Urbanist
• Skate Park at Seattle Center Will Be Demolished, But Rebuilt" Somewhere - Slog - The Stranger
• Pedestrian hit moments after receiving safety reflector from police - BC Local News
• Washington, Seattle spending $1.1M to fence off highways and bridges from the homeless | The Seattle Times
• Contest: Design your own bike lane person - Bike Happy Cascadia
• As Ballard changes, bike controversy heats up | Crosscut
• Political Pulpit: Seattle Activist Had 51 Days In Power - South Seattle Emerald
• Ellensburg, WA, Proves No Town Is Too Small for Top-Notch Bikeways - Streetsblog USA
• Good Samaritan hurt trying to help man on Rainier Avenue | The Seattle Times
• Seattle Has 'Transit Deserts' and-Surprise-It's No Fun to Ride the Bus There | Seattle Met
• No Longer New York City's 'Boulevard of Death' - The New York Times
• Meet the man transforming Seattle, one curb at a time | The Seattle Times
• Feeling rushed crossing Mercer Street on foot? Here's why, and what Seattle is doing about it | The Seattle Times
• Bike shops go bust: Portland Bicycle Studio, Holy Spokes, and Orenco Station Cyclery call it quits - BikePortland.org
• Reconnected Thomas Street at Aurora to Get Traffic Diverter The Urbanist
• Northlake Way Repaving Brings Bike and Pedestrian Improvements The Urbanist
• 'He just loved life:' Family pleas for help to find driver who struck & killed Seattle man | KOMO
• Envisioning an I-5 Lid in the U District The Urbanist
• Planning for Walking and Biking to U-District Light Rail - Seattle Neighborhood Greenways

National & Global News

• St. Louis Aims for Network of "Calm Streets" - Next City
• The Unintended Consequences of Fuel Efficiency - CityLab
• Hey, you can't park there! Dockless bike-share bikes ending up in inappropriate places | WA Post
• It's a make-or-break moment for U.S. bikeshares | CNN Money
• Video shows Utah police fatally shooting man from behind as he fled | US news | The Guardian - He was stopped for cycling without a light.
• Dashboard Devices Causing More Distracted Driving: AAA | NBC Connecticut
• In Pittsburgh, Transit Passes Come With Bike-Share Access at No Extra Charge - Streetsblog USA
• One killed, two injured after car slams into pedestrians in north Spokane parking lot | The Spokesman-Review
• Spokane woman is standing up to cyclist who yelled 'Hot pizza!' then smashed into her on trail | The Seattle Times
• Dockless bikes are the future for cities not driverless cars | Bicycle Business | BikeBiz
• Why Isn't It a Crime To Kill a Cyclist with a Car? - Next City
• America Hasn't Seen a Spike in Traffic Deaths This Bad in 50 Years - Streetsblog USA
• Uber, Lyft reduce transit use, increase vehicle miles, report says | SF Gate
• Bike Touring the Great Allegheny Passage: Days 3 and 4 on the GAP - Bike Style Life
• Transportation Engineers Are Ethically Bound to Protect Public Safety. Too Many Do Not. - Streetsblog USA
• Mobilizing for Protests Without a Car in St. Louis - CityLab
• These People Lost Their Minds Over a Bike Lane - Streetsblog USA
• LimeBike Now Valued At $225 Million After Investors Go All In On Bike-Sharing Craze | Forbes Mobile
• Biking With Biosensors in New York City - Video - NYTimes.com
• Smartphones Are Killing Americans, But Nobody's Counting - Bloomberg
• Adding lanes doesn't reduce congestion. So what is TxDOT doing? | Houston Chronicle
• SUVs double pedestrians' risk of death | New Scientist
• A bike-sharing war is coming to the U.S. as investors pour money into new entrants - Recode
• Crosswalk Appears on St. Mary's Strip, Prompting Swift Action from City
• Did Your State Forfeit Federal Funds for Walking and Biking? - Streetsblog USA
• BikeSD Sam's Farewell Message - BikeSD
• Sydney free share bikes could be used in Australian terrorist plot | Daily Telegraph
• Home-side bicycle parking | BICYCLE DUTCH
• Pittsburgh just got the bike advocate it never knew it needed: JuJu Smith-Schuster | Grist
• We Should Ban Cars From Big Cities. Seriously. | Buzzfeed
• "Distracted Walking" Is a Distraction From the Real Problem - Streetsblog USA
• Yes, sexual harassment is an urbanist issue | Greater Greater Washington
• Fire Department's New 'Vision Zero' Truck - Streetsblog San Francisco
• LimeBike Celebrates Achievements of "Keep Houston Rolling" Initiative
• Keep unpopular downtown bike lanes until 2018, city hall says | Saskatoon StarPhoenix
• Why we can't have nice things: dockless bikes and the tragedy of the commons | Politics | The Guardian
• She flipped off President Trump - and got fired from her government contracting job | WA Post
• Distracted walking ban is a zombie idea that has infected the brains of reasonable people: Keenan | Toronto Star
• Dockless bikeshare startup Spin adds some big-names as advisers | WA Post
• Locks of Love - Recycled Cycles
• It's not a bike, it's a bike-shaped Uber that says "Jump" - Greater Greater Washington
• UW study shows link between toxic air and psychological distress
• The Greg Siple Award for Young Adult Bicycle Travel | Adventure Cycling Association
• Reducing Speeding-Related Crashes Through Design - Alta Planning + Design
• Video series: How can bike share work better for marginalized LA residents? - Better Bike Share
• Tamika Butler, racism, and the segregation of public space - BikePortland.org
• How (Not) to Cross the Street in Jacksonville | ProPublica
• DoBi or Not DoBi, That Is the Question - Streetsblog Chicago
• We had triathletes race all 6 of D.C.'s bike-share bikes. The results surprised even us.
• Fox News' Jeanine Pirro charged for driving 119 mph upstate - NY Daily News
• Cycling downhill: has Copenhagen hit peak bike? | Cities | The Guardian
• Anger as Chinese bike sharing firm shuts up office with riders' deposits | World news | The Guardian
• A Day To Remember: Lives Lost On The World's Roads | Forbes
• Austin council to hold special meeting Monday on city manager pick | Statesman
• Chinese bike share graveyard a monument to industry's 'arrogance' | World news | The Guardian
• We Know SUV Design Kills Pedestrians, But We Still Let Carmakers Sell Them - Streetsblog USA
• Oakland Raiders' Marshawn Lynch throws his weight behind LimeBike with sponsorship deal - East Bay Times
• Microtransit - The Atlantic
• Bike-sharing Data and Cities: Lessons From China's Experience | newsecuritybeat.org
• One dead after hit-and-run driver strikes six people in Queens - NY Daily News
• Will dockless bike services boost bike commuting? Cities are betting on it. - The Washington Post
• GOP Tax Cuts Threaten Funding for Transit, Biking, and Walking - Streetsblog USA
• America Crowns a New Pollution King | Bloomberg
• ksdk.com | New campaign hopes to stop deadly crashes on Natural Bridge Road
• Trump Administration's Push to Roll Back Truck Safety Rules Will Cost People Their Lives - Streetsblog USA
• Heatmap Shows the Stark Separation of the Delmar Divide | Riverfront Times
• Generation Z May Not Want To Own Cars. Can Automakers Woo Them In Other Ways? : NPR
• #metoo biking edition - Genepedia
• China's Startups Are Only Pawns in the Game - WSJ
• It's time to start thinking of driving like smoking : TreeHugger
• Puerto Rico Sketchbook: The Anarchist Bikers Who Came to Help
• NACTO's new guide spells out which bike lanes should get protection " PeopleForBikes
• Remembering Pedestrian Pete - THE URBAN EDGE
• Aurora's Dockless Bike-Share Quickly Attracts More Riders Than Denver B-cycle - Streetsblog Denver
• Could dockless bike share disrupt Chicago? | Transportation | Chicago Reader