Friday Morning Commute - Watch out Portland

Good morning

• "Eight hours in the Howard University Hospital emergency room and five stitches later, I was back home, left to ponder what lessons I could draw from the experience."
• DC Rising - "Washington, DC, built green lanes into some of the city's most-famous and well-used throughways. "They've put a protected bike lane in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue," Maus says. "That's head and shoulders above anything that Portland's done.""
• And then read this comment too.
• Phoenix bikes profiled on WAMU

Tour De Fat by Joe in DC

Comments

[ken]

Only point in the comment to disagree with really is:

") Spend as little time as possible in the danger zone - go fast through it - even though it means you'd be hurt worse if something happene"

spend little time in the danger zone - yes, but not by going fast through it....

[MLD]

I had to say "what?" about this part:

" steering even slightly erratically can make you visible to cars."

Umm...

Also the part about going fast to "spend less time in the door zone" is stupid.

[Jonathan Krall]

'I had to say "what?" about this part:

" steering even slightly erratically can make you visible to cars."'

FWIW, I do that sometimes when riding on an arterial road when I know high speed traffic is approaching from the rear. I basically just steer back and forth a little in an effort to register as a moving object. I know from experience that moving objects are easier to see than still objects.