Tuesday Afternoon Commute - “If you want to shoot me the bird, that’s okay, too.”

Good afternoon

• My latest green lane blog post on 1st Street NE. 
• DCBAC meeting is tomorrow night. And they want to know what you think about the Idaho Stop. 
• A protected bike lane that uses the Zebra barriers DDOT is considering for Pennsylvania Ave NW.
• Watch out for this hole at Key Bridge.
• After the fireworks show, the Crystal City Connector saw 800 bikes pass through in one hour, when the usual peak for a day is about 100 an hour. 
• Arlington County needs bike boxes one person argues. Arlington County is getting a bike box the county responds. 
• Sheman Ave NW, now with a road diet and sharrows. 
• CaBi is awesome. And soon to get two new stations in Arlington: one on Columbia Pike and one in the Buckingham neighborhood.
• “To be honest, it’s not a statement, it’s not an experiment,” Armstrong told the Register. “It’s just me wanting to go ride my bike with what in the past has been a friendly group of people who share the same interests.”

Comments

[Tara]

Does Armstrong like rhubarb pie? Maybe that's the shared interest between him and the other RAGBRAI riders.

[Brendan]

Those barriers should be called something else. Zebras are crosswalks. Those look like armadillos.

[Greenbelt]

Looking forward to the 1st street cycletrack. 2nd street NE is getting pretty chaotic.

[washcycle]

Oh man, I love rhubarb pie. My grandmother grew up on a rhubarb farm and she made the best pie. Where does one get good rhubarb pie in DC? Or eggs-yellow golden rod.

[bilsko]

Hole was covered back up at 5PM this evening - didn't look like there was anything keeping the metal plate fixed in place though, so be cautious.

[Kolohe]

The people that tried to bike through the connector right after the show were a bit stymied though, there was a sea of people on foot coming through there from (I presume) Gravelly Point. (I was walking the other way from Long Bridge Park to the Nat'l Airport Metro station)

[Froggie]

We have rhubarb in our yard. Too far from DC, though.