Wednesday Afternoon Commute - Bolts

Good afternoon

• NBC4 Story on Penn Avenue Bike lane violations below.
• Attend a Move DC Public meeting
• New Belgium Tour de Fat party starts on Thursday. Volunteers needed. 
• "More than 200 injured veterans and active military personnel have been training in Bethesda for the 2013 Ride 2 Recovery United Healthcare Memorial Challenge, a nearly 400-mile trek that started Monday in Arlington, Va., and finishes Sunday in Virginia Beach, Va."
• "Many years ago Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas fought to save the C&O Canal from destruction from those who wanted to build a highway there, and we now enjoy that park."
• Work begins on the Fairfax County Parkway/Fair Lakes Parkway interchange that includes improved shared use paths. 
• The warm weather is causing something to emerge and it's not cicadas according to ABC7, it's bike thieves.
• Shout it from the rooftops: "People who walk or bike to work are likely to influence their co-workers and partners to do the same, according to health researchers....married people were more likely to participate in AC than non-married people, men actively commuted (AC) more often than women and mothers were even less likely to actively commute....People who were comfortable with their bicycling skills were more likely to actively commute, as were those who believed they had a shorter biking or walking time to work. Believing that an employer supports active commuting and working for an employer who supports AC, living in a community that supports AC and believing that the community is supportive of pedestrians and bicyclists were all positively significantly related to active commuting. On the opposite end of the spectrum, the researchers found that lack of on-street bike lanes, off-street bike and walking paths, and sidewalks all negatively influenced active commuting. Difficult terrain, bad weather and the speed and volume of traffic along the commuting route were also significantly related to people deciding to not actively commute."
• "the researchers concluded that head injuries were decreasing across the country at a rate that wasn't "appreciably altered" by the new helmet laws. Other rider health initiatives — namely, public safety campaigns and the introduction of better bike infrastructure — rendered the contribution of helmet laws "minimal"
• Chicago Bike Share, Divvy, to start on June 14.
• Bolts on the the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge bicycle path were installed incorrectly and as a result, many of the bolts have been sheared off.“It will be 100 percent fixed before they open that bicycle path,”

View more videos at: http://nbcwashington.com.

Comments

[antibozo]

It seems odd that only the first person interviewed is identified. That looks like Shane Farthing in the middle.

[antibozo]

…of the NBC video, i mean.

[T]

I'm glad to see NBC do a story on it. Sort of funny in the bad sort of way that while they're filming about it, people just start illegally making U-Turns or moving into the bike lanes. Kudos to them for not turning it into a bike v car war and actually talking about fixes.

[Bruce Wright]

The FFX Co Parkway/Fair Lakes interchange project was recently completed. The parallel sidepath was closed for over a year but it's not open. It's supposed to be paved any day now.