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- A VDOT meeting tonight, and another on December 14th, will discuss the I-66 corridor. "The study that is the subject of tonight’s public meeting is looking a variety of transportation options — transit, bicycle, pedestrian and highway — that could improve the movement of people through this corridor." Improved bike routes on US-29, US-50, Washington Boulevard and 613 could be a part of the solution. Not sure if there is room for expanding the bike trail network.
- A new segment of the Jones Falls Trail, 2.8 miles long from the Inner Harbor and the Gwynns Falls trail to the Amtrak Train station, is currently under construction. The $3.5 million project will be finished about 16 months from now. "When completed, the trail also will supply "the missing link" in the city's portion of the East Coast Greenway, a 2,800-mile network of bike paths stretching from Maine to Florida, said Greg Hinchliffe, Maryland's greenway coordinator."
- Just because Jack Johnson can ride a bike, it doesn't me he doesn't have Parkinson's disease. "He asked for mercy based on his overall record and what he said was his rapidly declining health. One of his lawyers said that Johnson...had recently been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and was rapidly degenerating, but prosecutors... said Johnson was playing golf, running and going on long bike rides despite the Parkinson's disease claim." And "Patients with atypical parkinsonism lose their ability to cycle during the early phase of the illness, while patients with Parkinson's disease continue to ride well."
- New algorithm can predict when cars will run a red light. [Should be easy, since only cyclists do this, right?]
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