Friday Morning Commute - Sock-tuckers

I'll be on vacation the next few days. I may blog. I may not. We'll see.

• Mike DeBonis comments on Alex Baca's bike lane piece. "My point: The more sock-tuckers hit the streets, the quicker I think cycling becomes part and parcel of mainstream D.C. culture. And Capital Bikeshare, I would submit, is helping a great deal."
• Another "I saw my stolen bike, what do I do?" stories. What you don't do, is write a neighborhood blogger to ask. That's what bike bloggers are for.
• The road hazard on 9th St NW - expansion joints. 
• A while ago I wrote about what would happen to the Potomac River Generating Station site, and the Mount Vernon Trail that runs through it, if it closed. Well, the American Clean Skies Foundation put together a proposal.  It's obviously not official, but their plan involves an improved MVT (moved out of the cage along the river and onto a greenway along Slater's Lane), a second trail on Dangerfield Island, connections along the extended street grid, and a bike station near a new water taxi pier.
• Vienna Town Council member Laurie Cole wants to make helmets mandatory for those under 14.

Comments

[Alex B.]

The beauty of the CaBi bikes is that they don't even require that you tuck into your sock to ride.

[charlie]

If anything, the "normal" cabi riders disprove the linked article's thesis. I agree that they are a huge positive for cycling.

But well dressed yuppie women won't help convince people that bike lanes aren't meant for them -- and they are meant to bring in a higher class of people. In other words, gentrification.

[Jacques]

@charlie -- that may be true EOTR, but it should ideally be helpful in Spring Valley. On the other hand, Ward 3 is not exactly awash in bikeshare stations.

[Brendan]

My pant wrapping tribe hates the sock tucking tribe.

[washcycle]

I roll up my pants and am thus ostracized by both groups.

[Crickey7]

Who you callin' a sock tucker? Come here and call me that to my face.

[gwadzilla]

vacation from blogging? maybe you will see bicycle infrastructure or bicycle behavior that inspires you!

and then this...
READ MY LIPS YOU SOCK TUCKER!

[washcycle]

I believe someday sock-tuckers will be treated just like "normal" people and be allowed to serve in the military and get married. Someday.

[Michael H.]

I wear shorts when I ride. Breakin' the law, breakin' the law, breakin' the law!

[CyclingFool]

Sorry to dredge up an oldish post, but...

http://alexandriava.gov/Mirant

Announcement to be made today re: the closure of the GenOn facility in Alexandria.