This is the Second Avenue cycle track that opened yesterday. There are lights for cyclists and lights for cars—lights that are supposed to tell vehicles when they cannot turn into the bike lane. However, moments after this photo was taken, a driver turned left despite having the red light.
  • Dominic Holden
  • This is the Second Avenue cycle track that opened yesterday. There are lights for cyclists and lights for cars—lights that are supposed to tell vehicles when they cannot turn into the bike lane. However, moments after this photo was taken, a driver turned left despite having the red light.

The Second Avenue Cycle Track: Opened yesterday and drivers are confused about it. But everyone agrees this is better than what was—even if drivers aren't used to the traffic signals yet. There have been 61 bicycle accidents on Second Avenue in the last four years, KOMO reports. This cycle track "was built years ahead of schedule thanks to Mayor Ed Murray," Dom reported yesterday, even though Murray and the city council have not committed to fully funding the $20-million-a-year Bicycle Master Plan.

No One Likes Amazon's New Phone Where You Can Walk into a Store and Scan Some Other Store's Product and Buy It for Cheap on Amazon: Huh, I wonder why? Maybe because people don't want to be complicit in the decimation of independent businesses? Especially when the product is literally called Fire. I'm just thinking aloud here. "The Amazon Fire is threatening to become the Amazon Fizzle," the New York Times says. Yesterday Amazon cut the price of the phone from $199 to 99 cents, the Seattle Times reports. (I would link to the Seattle Times, but online the article page in question is empty except for an encouragement for me to become a subscriber, which I already am, and I'm logged in—oh well!)

This thing is going to be PACKED with angry passengers.
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  • This thing is going to be PACKED with angry passengers.

Those Airplanes Boeing Got a Huge Order for Yesterday: Aren't going to have any galleys in the front or back, so that the airliner could squeeze more seats in. The Seattle Times calls Ryanair "an airline with a well-earned reputation for poor customer service." An extra exit door has been added so that they're allowed to cram more people into narrower seats, but they won't use all 200 seats they've created room for: "Ryanair will configure the cabin with just 197 passengers, to avoid having to add another flight attendant." Jesus.

Suspected Car Thief Led Authorities on Highway Chase Last Night from Sea-Tac to Renton: And then "the suspect lost control and flipped the stolen car into the I-5 median near South 260th Street," KOMO reports. "The driver got out, ran across traffic and disappeared."

Kingston Teenager Who Allegedly Said He Was Going to Shoot Up His School on 9/11: When he was arrested last Friday, detectives "found a loaded handgun under the driver's seat of his car and another loaded handgun in the house." In a court appearance yesterday, his bail was set at $2 million.

Speaking of School: A West Seattle high school has a flasher. He's "white, heavyset, and in his 30s."

Issaquah Prowler Turns Out to Be a Black Bear: Someone knocked over their trash and walked away with its contents. They thought it was a person. It wasn't. According to the report, "In King County this year alone... there have been 546 bear complaints."

The new Hedwig.
Good Call, Broadway! Michael C. Hall Will Play Hedwig Next: After Andrew Rannells leaves the show in mid-October, the star of Dexter and Six Feet Under and a few amazing Broadway productions—including the Cabaret I saw it at Studio 54 a decade ago—will take over until January. He's so damn good.

Speaking of Hedwig, Did You Know John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask Are Writing a Sequel? That's what John Cameron Mitchell told me a while back. So it's not news at all. But it matters!! This is what you get when you let a theater fag write Morning News. Speaking of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, there's a midnight sing-along showing of Hedwig at the soon-to-open Egyptian Theatre on October 10.

And Speaking of Faggotry: A Chorus Line just opened at the 5th Avenue. It's directed by David Bennett, who directed Torso a few years back, one of the best things I've ever seen on a Seattle stage. He also directed a Miss Saigon at the 5th Avenue that Dan Savage, who's the last person I'd expect would like Miss Saigon, LOVED. For what it's worth.