Tuesday Morning Commute - 1,004,059

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• "The initiative, back in Arlington this summer after a one-year absence due to county government budget cutbacks, works with young people (most ages 8 to 14) with physical and intellectual disabilities. Participants attend five daily 75-minute sessions over the course of the week; the goal is not only to teach bike riding, but also promote self-esteem, confidence, inclusiveness and positive family dynamic."
• Capital Bikeshare, trying to get 1,000,000 rides in year one, but it's going to be close.
• A look at last week's bicycle film festival
• Shocker, the Examiner belittles building sidewalks and bike paths as part of BRAC preparation.

Comments

[5555624]

To encourage CaBi riders to wear helmets, D.C. is going toto give away 500 helmets. http://www.wtop.com/?nid=41&sid=2488989

[SJE]

The Examiner article even states that there IS a problem with access to the new BRAC site for people taking metro and walking yet, bizarrely, focuses on the funding for cars.

[charlie]

That is just begging for the million-ride bikeshare contest...

[Beaker]

While I appreciate the efforts to widen the bike/pedestrian path on Jones Bridge Rd., the new surface they laid down is a kind of rough, holey concrete that will break up during the first winter freeze. Perhaps they are planning to put a smoother surface over the top? Asphalt would be nice. If they are not putting on a top coat, then the planners and/or the contractors are incompetent, and the public got ripped off.

[circa]

My kid did the Lose the Training Wheels thing. Pretty cool. They have special balance bikes with cone-shaped wheels.