Friday Afternoon Commute - Vacation

I'm going on vacation all week, and there will be no blogging (I know, I blogged on my honeymoon, but this time I mean it). Instead you will get a chance to enjoy Oscar nominated and winning shorts. Why? Because for once, people should enjoy the blog.

• Bike to Work Day had a 15% increase in registration region wide over last year--more than 14,600 cyclists total!
• WAMU story on DC cycle-tracks "Funding is not as much as an issue as dealing with some of the trade-offs on any given street, especially in downtown where we've done a lot of the easy bike lanes where there was unused space," he said. "When we talk about protection - separation and buffers from cars - and more permanent improvements, it's more a question of planning and consensus building than resources."
• Fairfax County has applied for money to do a Bikeshare Feasibility Study.
• "The last segment of the Great Allegheny Passage opened this morning"
• "An Oregon funeral home in Eugene offers natural burials where the ride to the person's final resting place is on the back of a three-wheeled bicycle."

Comments

[UrbanEngineer]

Not a fan of that WAMU photo...

Any north bound cyclists have extra trouble with salmoning 15th street cyclists this morning?

[T]

I suspect you mean further up 15th St, but I did have a bunch of folks coming down on the wrong side of the cycletrack. Partially because of the DC streetsweeper, which is fine because I'm all for getting any glass/nails/etc off the ground before I ride over it. But also because for some reason folks seem to want to shoal horribly at the lights and then they're slow to start crossing.

Come to think of it, I had a guy with boat shoes on shoaling at 15th and K on his cruiser. Of course I ended up leapfrogging him one block later by default of him not understanding the timing of the lights and trying to shoal up at each one.

[Jonathan Krall]

I hope you are enjoying your vacation!