Tuesday Morning Commute - PRK

Looking forward to the USA-North Korea Women's World Cup match today. It'll be a long lunch.

• ANC 3F voted to unanimously support bike lanes on Tilden between Connecticut Ave and Reno.
• I beg to differ. "Everyone knows Metrorail is the best way to travel to the National Fireworks Display on the Mall..."
• Kidical Mass meets Police ride along in West Laurel
• Stephen Miller has a very detailed article about DC's proposed L&M street cycletracks at GGW. It includes video from last week's hearing, the delay that waiting for the 15th Street Cycletrack study will involve, WABA's questioning of the project commitment and reasons cited for delay and DDOT's complete streets program.
• The Maryland State Highway Administration wants to block the use of "Bikes May Use Full Lane" signs in Maryland, so that most cyclists will continue to ride on the extreme right side of the roadway–even on roads where doing so is more dangerous than using the full lane. Maryland residents, click through to send an email to state office holders.
• Combining cycling with other modes of travel.

Comments

[charlie]

I've never thought too hard about the demographics of the 4th of July crowd. My sense is most of them are coming in from the far suburbs. For a lot of people who grew up in Fairfax, this was their big trip into the city every year.

So, taking your kids, coolers, blankets, chairs, and what not by bike isn't a great idea. If you were smart, and had time, you could drop off that stuff, park a ways away, then bike back.

Having NPS set up beer gardens would save the need for coolers.

(Sit back and dream of giant beer gardens and bikes on the Mall before the 4th.)

[think a little]

As much as I like the idea of the cycletrack, all you would be doing is creating rush-hour parking for delivery trucks on L and M west of 10th.

[I forgot]

It's good to see the police allow the kids to refine their proper salmoning technique.

[Shawn]

The MSHA story here seems to conflict with yestrday's http://www.thewashcycle.com/2011/06/advocates-listen-about-sharrows-bicycles-may-use-full-lane.html.

[SAS]

@Washcycle. Do you know what the law might be in DC on the question of "bicycles may use full lane." We've been lobbying DDOT [yes, I know] to paint sharrows on 41st NW and to post signs that would create a bike boulevard. Are we barking up the wrong tree because DC law may prohibit this?

If anyone knows, its the Washcycle! Like the Shadow!

[Contrarian]

SAS --

"Bicycles may use full lane" signs are specifically authorized in the DCMR:
"2202.9 On any street where official traffic control devices have been erected giving notice that bicycles are entitled to the use of the full right-hand lane then available for moving traffic, the driver of a motor vehicle shall not drive within that right hand lane while overtaking or passing a bicycle being driven in that lane, and after overtaking or passing, shall not drive into that right-hand lane until safely clear of the overtaken bicycle"