Saturday Morning Ride - Supermoon

Supermoon is tonight. And I've been making rear-end jokes about it all week.

• 18 members of Congress, including Representatives Connolly, Moran, and Norton, recently signed a letter to Joseph Boardman, President and CEO of Amtrak, asking that roll-on/roll-off service be provided on the Capital Limited between Pittsburgh and DC.
• A humorous tale of competing for bikeshare docks during rush hour. 
• NPR does a much better job of presenting the Capital Bikeshare helmet study. I like the guy who doesn't buy a helmet because that would make him a 'bike rider'. Sorry Alex, but you're one of us. One of us. One of us...

"Wearing a helmet is a good idea because if I'm going to fall off my bike and strike my head, I'd rather have a helmet than not." But it's not clear that the lack of a helmet should completely deter somebody from biking. "We want to increase people's ability to get exercise and do things that are environmentally sound," Fischer says.

And here's Boston's coverage, which is also not bad.

• New bike lane on Washington Blvd in Westover.
• Farewell MCA

Comments

[Phil K.]

Better be careful or you'll be the "butt of one...

[Brendan]

Wash Blvd bike lane: low hanging fruit. Super wide two lane road. Downhill cyclist speeds of 20+. 30 MPH speed limit.

[Michael H.]

Cloudy skies last night. I couldn't see the Moon at all. There might be clearer conditions tonight.

[Will]

From the WaPo article on MCA, early new urbanists: The Beastie Boys don't own a car, though they plan to acquire motorcycles as soon as they're home long enough to acquire anything. For a long while their necessarily preferred mode of urban transit was this: Mike D would ride his bicycle and pull Ad-Rock and MCA, on skateboards, along behind him. "Mike was on this exercise trip," says MCA, "and we said, 'Yo, Mike, if you're going to bother to go to the gym and ride the bogus bicycle, why don't you just ride around and pull us?' It worked better for everybody."