So long to the Brightwood Car Barn. We hardly knew you.
- One letter writer asks why non-driving customers to a grocery should subsidize those who drive. My take: if a grocery store decides on their own to offer free parking then that is just business. Maybe another grocery store will ask customers to pay for parking but charge slightly lower prices and attract my business that way. My problem is when the government mandates more parking than the business wants to provide, or fails to include the environmental costs of zoning decisions into the cost structure. But I don't see a business decision as a subsidy.
- Rhode Island Row is using the Met Branch Trail as a way to promote the livability of the area. "Of course being right on the red line and bike trail is not a bad marketing hook, and the development team has capitalized with "a ton of bike storage". Kenney said she hopes to have a Capital Bikeshare location on site in the future.
- The new New York Avenue bike lanes.
- Bikeshare in PG County?
- Maybe the price of helmets actually is an impediment to using them?
- Better image of the new Columbia Pike/Washington Blvd interchange with a new 10' wide shared use path.
- RTC writes about the old Dupont streetcar station which will probably not be a bike station or a bike trail.
- Lots of DDOT employees use bikes to get to, or get around for, work.
- The near SE section of the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail in pictures.
The improvements to the Columbia Pike/Washington Blvd. interchange can also open up space for the planned Washington Blvd. bike trail. According to the drawing, the southbound Wash. Blvd. lane that leads directly to S. Quinn St. would be removed.
The open space could accommodate the southern part of a bike trail along the western side of Wash. Blvd., from Columbia Pike north to Courthouse Rd. There is currently a stub of a trail but it only runs for about 100 ft. from Courthouse Rd.
A Washington Blvd. trail would greatly improve the bike route between Pentagon City and Clarendon/Court House. Now that Capital Bikeshare has a presence in both areas, we need to have better north-south connections between the two bike station groups. The Mt. Vernon Trail is OK for riding up to Rosslyn but it's inconvenient for those traveling from PC to Clarendon and Ballston.
Posted by: Michael H. | March 10, 2012 at 03:18 PM
I second what Michael H. has written.
Posted by: Kathy | March 10, 2012 at 10:48 PM
I am interested in others' reactions to the article about cyclists subsidizing drivers at supermarkets. I never thought of it that way, and I still don't after reading the article. Frankly, I don't like the us and them thing where we divide people into cyclists or drivers, to begin with. (I drove my car to Safeway Sunday as I do every weekend, a day after making an admittedly rare trip to Safeway by bike to pick up stuff for dinner). And you can turn the writer's argument around -- she's riding her bike on roads paid for, in part, through gas taxes. (I know, local roads are mainly paid by state and local taxes, but gas taxes contribute.)
Posted by: Michael Roy | March 12, 2012 at 10:09 AM
I guess I would just replace the work parking with cupcakes. If a grocery store wanted to give out free cupcakes, I wouldn't care even if I didn't want any and even though I knew that not using them would "subsidize" everyone else. It's their business and their money.
But if the city council told them they had to give out a certain number of free cupcakes everyday - more than they wanted to - and so did every grocery store, that would annoy me. [Except that it wouldn't because I would eat those cupcakes like it was my job].
Posted by: washcycle | March 12, 2012 at 11:09 AM
How I feel about the article, in part, depends on whether or not the grocery store parking exists in the first place as a result of a government-mandated parking minimum. Otherwise I find it annoying but I "get" the people who feel that they must drive everywhere can be exploited by the marketplace (lure them with free parking and get the money back through high prices).
One of the WaPo commenters posted this URL sustainablecitynews.com/rr69.html that makes the point, once again, that non-drivers are subsidizing drivers via taxes and public policy (government-provided "free" roads). It is estimated that the average non-driver is paying an extra $250/year.
Posted by: Jonathan Krall | March 12, 2012 at 01:14 PM
Så avansert luksus dress på seg urettmessige sko, og så effekten er sterkt redusert, vakker eller ikke se folk se visdom, men om det kan opprettholde en grunnleggende par sko rene og for å opprettholde den glamorøse nye sko, vedlikehold av tunge lær ukedager
Posted by: MBT Sko Norge | October 09, 2012 at 02:33 AM