Wednesday Morning Commute - vulnerable, like a taxpayer

Good morning, I bet CaBi is so drunk after last night.

• Catania: "what's special about bicyclists?" Bowser: "They're vulnerable". Catania: "taxpayers are vulnerable" - The BAC supports the anti-harassment law that these two councilmembers were discussing.
• Bike to the solar decathlon
• The Huffington Post writes about cycling in DC. "This is my mode of transportation, damn it. And I'm proud of it."
• Peregrine Espresso delivers coffee by bike. And pedicab drivers stay fit while working.
• People in Takoma DC are itching for a bikeshare station. Pass the boot around. 
• Car Free Day is tomorrow. "GW will participate in Car Free Day as part of the University’s commitment to reducing its carbon footprint. The Office of Sustainability will raffle off 50 discounted Capital Bike Share memberships to those who take the pledge." And better yet - "In addition to participating in Car Free Day, Waskow announced that GW will launch a discounted shower-pass membership at the Lerner Health and Wellness Center later this semester. The membership will allow commuters who bike or walk to work to access showers at the fitness center." I wonder if that is only available to GW employees.
• VeloCity is moving, but they don't know where to. "Our warehouse home at 204 S. Union St. in Old Town has been sold, and we must move out by the end of January. We have limited time, and need a short list of viable locations so that we can review options, make a decision, negotiate a lease, and relocate.  We can use your skills, knowledge, contacts, and ideas to help us find and finance a new location in Alexandria, Arlington, or DC"
• TBD covers recent politics/cycling overlap. 
• Today we find out if Richmond will get the 2015 World Cycling Championships.
• Metro North in NY/CT is studying various mounts for bikes on trains.
• Around 1000 pedestrians are injured in collisions with cyclists in New York State per year, with about half of them in New York City. "One quarter of those injured were under age 10, and in New York City many of the victims came from poorer neighborhoods like East Harlem." But crashes are going down even as cycling increases "The number of injuries statewide declined from 1,112 in 2008 to 927 in 2010, researchers said." About 15,000 pedestrians are injured by cars each year in New York State. Which makes bike-related ped injuries about 6.25% of the total. Higher than their mode share, but then cyclists have more opportunities to crash into pedestrians. And the fatality ratio is around 300:1. So still safer, but there is room for improvement for sure. 
• Drinking and biking I frown upon. Doing so with your kid strapped in the child seat attached to your bike - and when you're so drunk that you fall down twice, thus injuring her, makes you candidate for worst dad ever.