Wednesday Morning Commute - the most famous bicycle accident in Supreme Court history

Good morning

• This letter to the editor from 1979 is downright creepy in it's prescience. The writer, Peter Harnik now with the Trust for Public Land, calls for a cycletrack on 15th Street, bike lanes on Pennsylvania Avenue, Closing Beach Drive to cars on Sundays, and limiting who can use the sides of K Street. Closing down the BW Parkway and GW Parkway to car traffic once a month...that's a little farther out (can you imagine the reaction?)
• A sign to warn cyclists about the door zone is shown at right.

• Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer of the Bicycle theory, broke his collarbone in a cycling accident last weekend in Massachusetts. That's not his first crash either. He must run red lights like crazy. "In 1993, Breyer suffered more serious injuries, a punctured lung and broken ribs, when he was hit by a car while riding his bike across Harvard Square." And more here "Breyer stays limber by bicycling around Cambridge and Georgetown, where he also has a home. (In 1993, when Breyer was a federal appeals-court judge in Boston, he had what is certainly the most famous bicycle accident in Supreme Court history. A few days before an interview with President Clinton for the vacancy on the Court created by Byron White’s resignation, Breyer crashed while trying to avoid a pedestrian near his home in Cambridge, breaking a rib and puncturing a lung. He was in pain during the meeting with the President, and it didn’t go well. Breyer was appointed the following year, after Harry Blackmun retired.)" Mrs. Washcycle informs me that Warren Burger had a nasty bike crash in the 1970's that kept him off the bench for some time. 
• The fittest cities in America are also the ones that have the highest rates of bike commuters. 
• There's an update on the NH Burroughs Ave Great Streets Project scheduled for tonight, 6-7pm at NHB School, 601 50th St. NE
• Capital Bikeshare is closing in on 500,000 trips. 500,000th person gets a free Chrome messenger bag.
• NoMa is touting itself as biketastic, with a bikespa, Bike-in movies, bike rides and a free bike pump at the NW Corner of First & M Sts, NE
• I enjoy overselling, so here's the best bike to work day video ever!

Comments

[Rootchopper]

Do the fittest cities have the highest rates of bike commuters or do cities that have the highest rates of bike commuters have the fittest residents?

[Ron Alford]

Woo! My whole family got their half second of exposure at 1:59. We're famous!

[le guy]

@Rootchopper:

Yes.

[oboe]

Funny, watching the bike to work video, I was flinching as she came out of that alley. Was sure she was going to get t-boned as she busted out onto the cross street.

[Krickey7]

@rootchopper

You have it totally backwards. It should be,

Do cities that have the highest rates of bike commuters have the fittest residents or do the fittest cities have the highest rates of bike commuters?

[Krickey7]

I suspect those same cities also have a higher rate of mass transit and/or walking to work. The less time people spend in their cars, the healthier they are. Urban design has a huge impact here.