Monday Afternoon Commute - Chuck Norris crosses that bridge before he gets to it

Good evening

• A bill was introduced in Maryland that would create an exception to prohibitions against driving a vehicle on the left side of the roadway in a no-passing zone for a driver who is making the minimum adjustment necessary under specified circumstances to facilitate the provision of the 3-foot clearance for overtaking and passing a bicycle.
• Reminder: Capital Bikeshare on the Mall is on the March 1 agenda for the National Capital Planning Commission. Also, the CaBi newsletter is here. 
• A bicycle-pedestrian bridge between Slovakia and Austria might be named after Chuck Norris. Because Chuck Norris flosses with bicycle chains. 
• Occasionally, work sends me to Titusville, FL and on my first trip I noticed an old railbed that I thought would make a nice bike trail. I'm not the only one. "The Volusia County Council invites all residents to join them in celebrating a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the first 5.7-mile trail segment of what will eventually be one of the longest rail-trails in the state, covering 50 miles between Enterprise to Edgewater, in addition to a 10-mile leg through Brevard County to Titusville."

Comments

[Michael H.]

When Chuck Norris rides a bike, he doesn't roll across the Earth. He makes the entire Earth rotate beneath his tires.

[Scott S.]

The first point makes me cringe because a very small car was straddling the double yellow while passing me (giving me about 50 yards of clearance in that spot as a rough estimate) and forced an oncoming small car almost off the Sligo Parkway on my ride home from work today. Seems the "specified circumstances" should include a prohibition against driving while clueless, or this thing could go badly.