Friday Morning Commute - Red is the new black

The end of trike's first week in daycare. Harder on us than him.

• You can read the transcript of Shane Farthing's visit to Kojo's show (no Kojo) here. He has a shout out for Kidical Mass, talks about the complexity of working with so many agencies and jurisdictions and the 50 States Ride. 
• Labor Secretary Hilda Solis - recreational cyclist.
• Montgomery County creates a heat map for bicycle planning.
• Some important bike related meetings coming up in Alexandria, including the City Council discussion of bike sharing.
• Obit for Dionette “Didi” Cherney, the Washingtonian who was struck and killed by a cyclist last month in San Francisco..

Dionette “Didi” Cherney, 68, who had been a mergers and acquisitions and profitability consultant for Prudential Network Realty, died Aug. 11 at a hospital in San Francisco from head injuries after being struck by a bicyclist.

She was a Washington resident and had been in California accompanying her husband on a business trip.

Officer Albie Esparza, a San Francisco police spokesman, said Mrs. Cherney was in a crosswalk and had a green light to cross along San Francisco’s waterfront when a cyclist struck her July 15.

Esparza said police investigators recommended that charges be filed against the cyclist, but a spokesman for the San Francisco district attorney’s office, Seth Steward, said that a decision was pending receipt of police documents.

• Owners of black CaBi keys, you just became more exclusive.

Comments

[charlie]

my cabi key is also falling apart. Has anyone gotten a replacement?

[Early Man]

If only black CaBi keys were like black passports: "Sorry officer, you can't ticket me for failing to put a foot down at the stop sign. I have diplomatic immunity."

[Michael H.]

I think the red ones look better. But I'll hold onto my black key until it falls apart.

[BFM]

I'm the guy with the busted key. They said that they would mail me a replacement key, but I haven't gotten it yet (been a week). They said in the mean time that I could pay by credit card and they would reimburse me for any charges, but I've been really hesitant to do that and have only bought a one day pass when I needed it to get home. I don't know whether I did anything especially destructive to the key, but I suspect that just having it in your pocket will break it eventually. In any case, much thanks to WashCycle for linking to the blog.