Tuesday Morning Commute - Venture

Good morning

• "The plan does not include bike lanes for Wisconsin Ave., despite community support for them, because the street was not wide enough to include them along with the other higher priority changes"
• Winter/Spring 2012 Bicycling Classes with Arlington Adult Education 
• There has been some debate in the past about how densely packed bike-share stations should be. For those arguing for tightly packed stations, Toronto is moving some stations farther out. The author notes that Minneapolis' system is smaller but more spread out, giving it a larger service area. "This allowed me to venture much farther using the bike share program than I am able in Toronto. Granted, I had to pay careful attention to station location and how long it was going to take me to get there, but I was grateful for these outlier stations in allowing me to explore more of the city."
• The rest of Capital Bikeshare's October numbers are out. As mentioned before ridership is down a bit with tpbpd dropping to 4.6, the lowest since April. Membership is still growing, and is very near 100,000 members. Crashes were up too. 17 in October, the highest since November 2010 (earlier setting sun?).

Winter/Spring 2012 Bicycling Classes with Arlington Adult Education

Comments

[jeff]

So a median is considered a high priority treatment on Wisconsin, but bike lanes are not?

DDOT failed cyclists with the Massachusetts & Florida Aves. rehabs a few years back, the downtown Connecticut Ave rehab last year and now on Wisconsin Ave. Cyclists still must use these arterial routes, despite DDOT's refusal to accommodate them safely.

Why is DDOT now ignoring their own internal complete streets policy?

[Roy]

The problem with spread-out bikeshare stations comes when you get dockblocked and have to trek well out of your way.

[washcycle]

Jeff, there's also the cycletrack originally planned for far Pennsylvania SE that was axed.

Roy, it is a trade off between serving more people/areas and reliability. Somewhere in there is the sweet spot. Having every station be walking distance from another maximizes services. Putting stations twice that distance apart maximizes service area/people served. Where in between those the ideal spot is...I don't know. It's probably different for every city.