• Europe's fast and feared fútbol team, the Fútbol Club Barcelona, is finally here on Seattle soil. Tonight, the Barca will step out to a sold-out Qwest Field, where they'll find the Sounders hiding ready and waiting for the friendly soccer...err...fútbol game. Go Sounders! (fingers crossed)
• My Ballard reports that Seattle Department of Transportation crews are embracing their inner artists and painting new "sharrows" for bicyclists along 32nd Ave. NW.

Yesterday at noon, the sharrow-makers were at the north end of Broadway, and by the time we biked over to Pike for Blogsgiving, it was sharrows all the way. If anyone's asking, Broadway could use a dedicated bike lane, not just sharrows. But perhaps this is just a beachhead for the new bikeocracy. more ›