Good afternoon
- Transportation Nation and WAMU are tracking all of DC's abandoned bikes in the hopes that DDOT will remove them. One commenter at DCist links to this clever method of tagging possibly abandoned bikes. Does it make you sad to know that abandoned bikes go to the dump?
- Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) "typically gets around town on Metro or his bike."
- Earlier this month, a Maryland cyclist - Russell Henman - was killed by a driver in Rehobeth Beach at 2:00 am. The driver - Brian Meegan - hit him from behind without ever stopping and then left the scene dragging the bike beneath his car before pulling into a CVS parking lot. He was reportedly drunk and had been arrested for drunk driving just six weeks earlier in the same area. His insurance had expired. "The documents say Henman’s bicycle had both front and rear lights: the front light was still operating after the crash, and pieces of the rear light were found at the scene...Meegan was charged with first-degree vehicular homicide, leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death, driving under the influence of alcohol, failure to report a collision resulting in injury or death, inattentive driving and failure to have minimum insurance.... In the first incident, Meegan was charged with DUI, failure to have insurance identification in his possession and failure to have registration in his possession. Court documents show his blood alcohol level in the first incident was 0.18, more than twice the legal limit of 0.08." Meegan is out on bail and may have fled. According to his employer “We don’t know where he is."
- "Two doctors and a team trainer associated with Lance Armstrong’s cycling teams during his run of seven consecutive Tour de France titles received lifetime bans Tuesday for doping violations from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency." And, a rider in this year's tour was arrested for doping.
- Chuck Thies equates livability with "a city that caters to devotees of streetcars, Draconian parking restrictions and bicycling." Actually, that sounds fantastic.
Abandoned bikes should be donated to the many charitable organizations that give bikes to low-income kids, or people in developing countries.
Posted by: SJE | July 10, 2012 at 05:33 PM
The DUI case:
The area where the accident occured is terribly designed for anything except cars. They really need to redo the road design.
Also, the story says that both the driver and cyclist left the same bar at about the same time. If two guys left the same bar and one killed the other shortly thereafter, you'd have to ask whether it was an accident.
Under all the circumstances, I wonder why the driver was even allowed bail.
Posted by: SJE | July 10, 2012 at 05:39 PM
New response when interrogated about cyclist scofflawage: "Oh, that was probably just Congressman Chaffetz. That guy is a menace."
Posted by: darren | July 10, 2012 at 08:38 PM
No morning post?
Posted by: antibozo | July 10, 2012 at 09:07 PM
If Chuck Thies wants lots and lots of cars then he can move to LA. Plenty of smog and congestion to suit his taste. Good riddance!
Posted by: Kathy | July 10, 2012 at 11:08 PM
Confiscated bikes at Michigan State University were converted into their Green Bikes system while I was a student there - sort of a free bikeshare system. They were painted Michigan State Green and then left, unlocked (who wants to steal such a bike?) at a bike rack for use by anybody. I don't think there was a methodology for balancing the system, but hey, free bike rides.
Posted by: Shawn | July 11, 2012 at 04:10 PM
anyone with information about the crash on Tuesday - MVT trail on the hill/ chicane going North just before the small wooden bridge. Ambulance on the parkway and one fellow on a stretcher. Two bikes in tangled heap.
Posted by: alan | July 11, 2012 at 04:37 PM
Would charitable organizations take a bike so bad that nobody would even steal it?
Posted by: Mike | July 12, 2012 at 08:26 AM
MBT sko gjennom brukervennlig design, forbedret benstøtte kraft, kan det være bedre å støtte kroppsvekt.
Posted by: UGG Sko | October 09, 2012 at 02:45 AM