Wednesday Afternoon Commute - Cut the Waist

Good afternoon. I'm in Arizona, and the local PBS affliate had a half-hour show on biking in the Phoenix area last night. They showed the Tempe Transportation Center  (which has a bike station) and the downtown bike boulevard with green paint down the middle. That's a nice touch, it encourages cyclists to take the lane, but keeps paint away from car tires.

• It's OK for cyclists to use the W&OD bridle path, but it may require extra caution. 
• New CaBi stations at 21st and Penn NW and at 19th and K NW. 
• The new Staff Draft of the Chevy Chase Lake Sector Plan includes several bicycle improvements, including trails that parallel and connect to the Capital Crescent Trail. It will also bring development right up to the trails edge. 
• One letter writer complains that in Alexandria "the Bike Share Program for Old Town produces a resoundingly negative result."
• Anti-cycling mayor of Toronto, fails to hit weight goal in Cut the Waist charity challenge. Perhaps bike commuting would help?

Comments

[Eric_W.]

Publius Publicola or whatever his real name may be is one of the GOP henchmen trying to perpetuate the myth of the taxpayer-wasting CaBi program.

I wish these guys had been on the job half as engaged when all the billions (rather trillions) of dollars in taxpayer money had been spent on non-productive tax cuts for the truly wealthy and for unnecessary wars and military equipment. But that might have been asking too much.

[Jack]

Actually it's the "Chevy Chase Lake" sector plan. Who knew Chevy Chase had a lake?

[Greenbelt]

I was in Salt Lake last week -- they use the narrow green stripe down the center of the lane also. I like it. I think the East Coast Greenway should launch a fundraising campaign to tey to green stripe the route through cities (like DC).

[JJ]

Does anyone know when exactly the new Bikeshare stations in Alexandria will show up? They were promised for "this summer", but I have seen zero evidence of any movement here.

[washcycle]

I don't know, but it's only been summer for like a week.