Saturday Morning Ride - Peeps

Just saw The Fighter. Not bad.

• Enjoy the photos at right of the new, but not-yet-open, Anacostia Trail south of Bladensburg Park. This trail is on the east side of the river and runs from Bladensburg Park to a dead-end just north of the DC-MD boundary. (thanks John). DC's section that will connect to this is going through environmental review. It looks finished, I don't know why it's not open. There is quite a bit of boardwalk to get through an environmentally sensitive area. The second photo shows checkdams that slow water flow down. The last one, the dead end.
• American River Taxi, a water taxi operating between Georgetown and Nationals Stadium with a stop at the SW waterfront will have bike racks on their boats for those who wish to take their bikes with them. Good for them. But, it may not be far enough to be worth it. If it crossed the river to Alexandria though...
• The East Falls Church Plan, which I've written about here, proposes several improvements for cyclists and will voted on today (hurry). I think it's something to be supported.
• CaBi now has 9000 members. Their goal for the end of the year is 10,000. Not so sure this is true "DDOT Progressive Transportation Services Director Scott Kubly ..announced that CaBi ... is now the most well-used bikeshare system in the world on a per-bicycle basis."
  
  • 3000 uses a day makes for about 3 trips per bike per day (tpbpd). Barcelona was doing 10 tpbpd back in 2009. 
  • "3,000 daily trips are made on CaBi, more than half the number who ride Arlington County's ART bus system every day."
  • Speaking of CaBi, it made it into the Post's Peeps Diorama Contest.
• WABA reports "Tomorrow's Mobile Bike Shop at Deanwood Rec Center is canceled due to expected rains and high winds. But the Confident City Cycling class for residents of wards 7 & 8 is still on. (We may just move some outdoor parts indoors.)"
• And, the Oxon Cove Connector Trail that was torn up during construction of MPD's new evidence warehouse has been rebuilt thanks to WABA and Adenegan Olusegun of DRES.

Comments

[Jacques]

I wouldn't be surprised if CaBi crosses the 10,000 member mark in the next couple of weeks, as the vouchers from Living Social continue to be processed.

Took the American River Taxi from Nats Park to Georgetown on Thursday night. It's a nice ride, and while I can see that for most bicyclists, it's not long enough for a bike rack to be worthwhile, there are also CaBi stations within a block of both the ballpark and Georgetown stops (and I think the SW Waterfront stop as well).

Once they're fully up and running, they plan to phase in service (either this year or next) to Old Town, National Harbor, and even DCA, although I imagine the permitting on that last one will take some time.

[charlie]

38 members E-O-T-R.

Free the bikes! Bring them back over to where they will be used.

[Purple Eagle]

Regarding the Anaocostia Trail - there is a small bridge over a creek between the boardwalk and the wetland area. It's not quite finished, but looks like it won't take much more work. And then they will need to pave the approach from the boathouse parking lot.

[JeffB]

@Charlie,

After today I hear what you're saying. Yesterday (Saturday) was about one of the most miserable weather days that I can remember.

So it seems like I and just about every other CaBi member was out and about today getting our errands run.

Everywhere I went I was finding nothing but empty stations. People were queueing up at empty stations grabbing bikes as soon as they came in. Now normally I would expect if one side of town was out of bikes then they must all be on the other side of town.

But looking at my iPhone app it seemed to show that the entire town was sans bikes! Where did they all go? Did they fall into the Bermuda triangle?

Perhaps so many people were using CaBi today that the missing bikes were all in transit between stations. If so then we really are going to need more bikes and FAST.

Or did CaBi pull a bunch into the shed for Spring tune ups?