Friday Morning Commute - unless you pedal like the mayor. Then it’s more like 15 minutes.

Good morning

• New signs on H Street warn cyclists about streetcar tracks. I wonder if that is enough. 
• "Federal Highway Administration is studying the widening of Route 1 from Telegraph Road to Mt. Vernon Memorial Highway. Current plans include wide outside lanes for use by bicyclists. There is opposition to the project that will impact Woodlawn National Historic Site."
• Alexandria City Council voted to use unspent transportation improvement funds to cover the first-year operation costs of CaBi after the Federal Highway Administration announced in April that certain federal funds could not be used for operating expenses associated with bike-share programs. This led to a discussion about station placement - cluster them or spread them out? Some wondered if a station in Del Ray made sense.
• Central Avenue in Capitol Heights could become bike friendly. "Long-term solutions with no projected start date include turning Central Avenue into a “complete street” that would reduce the three lanes on both sides to two, add bicycle lanes and landscaping, said Carol Kachadoorian of Silver Spring-based Toole Design Group."
• Bike lanes might complement Bethesda Trolley Trail along Woodglen Drive. 
• It's a great story, but I suspect it isn't really her bike. Not that she's lying, just that she is misidentifying it [I know, where's my sense of wonder.]
• Michigan senior prank brings attention that safely biking to that high school is basically impossible. Complete streets and Safe Routes to Schools could help. 

Comments

[Steve]

The extraneous bollards on the W&OD East Falls Church bridge are gone.

[charlie]

what is this FHA ruling?

Great, Catalonia just went belly up.

[oboe]

Michigan senior prank brings attention that safely biking to that high school is basically impossible. Complete streets and Safe Routes to Schools could help.

Just want to pull this image out of the linked article. What a mess we've made of this country--here's the route to school:

(This bridge is the only way over a freeway on the way to Kenowa Hills High School. Image: Midwest Energy News/Google Street View)

[Jonathan Krall]

The Safe Routes to School Program clearly needs to be expanded to include High Schools.

[Michael H.]

How about Safe Routes to... Anywhere? That would be nice.

[Crickey7]

That's like a scene out of Mad Max. I'd find that a bit intimidating myself.

[Shawn]

Sweet! I recommend those signs to Wells and DDOT. Hope they make people who weren't otherwise aware of the potential problems with streetcar tracks aware of them.

[IMGoph]

Heck yeah a station (or two, or more) in Del Ray would be a good idea!