Bike News Roundup: Bike share’s anarchist roots
by Tom Fucoloro from Seattle Bike Blog on (#3XEVZ)
It's time for the Bike News Roundup, a list of some stuff floating around the web lately that caught our attention.
First up, Grist dives into the anarchist roots and capitalist evolution of bike share:
Pacific Northwest News
- Executive Constantine proposes new approach to Metro fare enforcement - King County
- A ban on apartments hurts public education | Real Change
- August 2018 - Friends of East Lake Sammamish Trail - Good legal news for the region's second-most litigated trail.
- Bellevue's slow roll into bike share could lead to something big | Crosscut
- Cascade Bicycle Club E-Bike World Record Ride & Expo | Cascade Bicycle Club
- Thanks to Comprehensive Street Design, Vancouver Sows for the Future - Sightline Institute
- This electric bike experiment could change how we design cities | Grist
- Suburban Seattle Parking Purists: We Didn't Plant Those Fireworks on That Bike Lane Construction Site - Slog - The Stranger
- Bike Share Stations Out and Dockless Bicycles and Scooters In | Baltimore Magazine - Bewegen is the company that nearly won a contract to expand bike share in Seattle before then-Mayor Ed Murray pulled the plug. I was against killing the program back then, but it sure seems like a great decision now. I admit now, with 20/20 hindsight, that I was wrong.
- Seattle police need help locating bikeshare brake cutter | king5.com
- Safety Improvements on Rainier Avenue South | Office of the Mayor
- Counting on volunteers to tally people who walk and bike | WSDOT
- Ofo saying goodbye to Seattle, will donate bikes | king5.com
- Durkan Torpedoes Transit Shelter Modernization Plan, Forgoing $97 Million Or More In Revenue The Urbanist
- Lime pilots in-app donations, encouraging bikeshare riders to give money to local nonprofits in 3 cities - GeekWire
- Trail Spotlight: Eastside Rail Corridor - King County Parks Plog
National & Global News
- A second dockless bike-share company is exiting D.C. - Curbed DC
- Saturday's Pedal-Assist E-Bike Legalization Leaves Delivery Workers Out in the Cold - Streetsblog New York City
- Relax - the bikes and scooters don't bite - The Boston Globe
- House GOP Transportation Bill Would Raise Taxes on Transit and Bikes - Streetsblog USA
- America spends over $20bn per year on fossil fuel subsidies. Abolish them | Dana Nuccitelli | Environment | The Guardian
- LeBron James opened a public school for at-risk kids in Akron - SBNation.com - Students will receive free bikes.
- American Cyclists Killed By ISIS In Tajikistan | Outside Online
- Cyclists of Color Weighed in on CPD Bike Ticketing at the Wheels of Justice Ride - Streetsblog Chicago
- Outlawed Abroad, Killer "Bull Bars" Are the Hot Fashion Accessory for Police Departments - Streetsblog USA
- Bikepacking Might Kill You: Coal Headwear & Friends Do The Swift Campout on Vimeo
- Scooter Company Bird Offers to Pay Cities to Build Bike Lanes - Streetsblog USA
- The LeBron James Interview About Bicycles - WSJ
- Biking Pol is Killed, So Louisiana Parish Blames Cyclists - Streetsblog USA
- We're well on the way to disastrous 'hothouse Earth,' climate scientists warn in new study | OregonLive.com
- Considering Ways to Prevent America's Deadliest Type of Bike Crash - Route Fifty
- Tell Your Senator: Don't Leave Trails, Walking and Biking Behind - Rails-to-Trails Conservancy
- The social ideology of the motorcar - Uneven Earth
- A Hit-and-Miss Debut for Dockless Citi Bikes in the Bronx - Streetsblog New York City
- Scooters Aren't a Public Safety Hazard. Dangerous Streets Designed Only for Cars Are. - Streetsblog USA
- Insights on bike-sharing from Harvard researcher - Harvard Gazette
- America's Car Culture is Literally Shortening Your Life: Study - Streetsblog USA
- Is It Time to Redefine the Bike Lane? - Streetsblog USA