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Poor Metro. If it's not their many money troubles, it's their busted up bike racks. Get ready to elbow your way into a spot for your cycle. more ›

• The Puget Sound will be a playground for the Seattle Tugboat Race Championships at Saturday's Maritime Festival.
• The zoo says it's not their bird on the loose. So who is missing an exotic yellow-ish bird?
• Sustainable Ballard's nifty-looking contest-winning custom-designed bike rack will adorn the corner of 22nd and Ballard Ave.

Keeping with our three-day-old, all-bike-news, all-the-time theme, we see the Seattle P-I has a story about bike racks filling up all over Seattle. The city is installing 300 new bike racks per year (toward a goal of doubling availability by 2017), so if you want one, ask for one. The racks outside Liberty and Hopvine on 15th are often three bikes deep these fine summer days, and the racks outside Madison Market should come with a take-a-number dispenser. We put in a request a few months ago but must have been the only ones, because the block in front of Nordstrom downtown is still rack-free. You can actually buy some cycling-style clothing at Nordy's--guess they don't plan on you actually using it. more ›

The first thing that struck us about the 3.15-mile, $1.6 billion project that is the University Link light rail line is that it will have half of the projected ridership of the 16-mile Central Link line. Kinda makes us think they should have started with the U District - Capitol Hill part first. As it is, the Central Link goes online in 2009, University Link in 2016. more ›