Good morning. Let us know if you see Obama. My friend had Sasha and Malia trick-or-treat at her house. How cool is that? But she's a Republican so she gave them each a ladle full of hot chili.
Capital bikeshare station expansion begins. First station expanded - 16th and Harvard. Enjoy.
BRAC funding in Virginia: "In addition to widening Route 1, the Belvoir project will include sidewalks and bicycle paths and accommodations for future transit. Construction is expected to start in 2013 with possible completion in 2015."
Collecting abandoned bikes for the less fortunate is a Mitzvah!
Bicycle parking facility, similar to the one in College Park is planned for the Franconia-Springfield Metro. "WMATA is in the final stages of planning an indoor, enclosed bike parking facility at Franconia-Springfield Metro station. It will likely be located in the new parking garage. The project is funded through a TIGER I grant for multimodal improvements at the station."
Bike paths are infrastructure [Warning link is to conservative website].
“Forever Bicycles” is made of 1,000 bicycles installed in a 10-meter high space in a moving, abstract shape to symbolize the way in which the social environment in China is changing. It probably won't fit in your basement.
WABA coverage of the Douglass Bridge ride. "Discussions centered around the traffic circle (to be built on the southeast side of the bridge) and the traffic oval (to be built on the northwest side) and access to the bridge from Anacostia via Howard Rd. & Firth Sterling Rd." And DDOT's Mike Goodno lists the issues discussed in greater detail including bike lanes on South Capital Street, connnections to the ART, continuation of the Suitland Parkway trail etc...
Susan Paisner writes to the Post to ask where are all the bike helmets for Capital Bikeshare riders? "heads are heads, skulls are skulls, and brain injuries can maim and kill, regardless of how they take place." Right. So where are the helmets all these pedestrians and motorists should be wearing?
A profile of Bikes for the World, where the bikes come from and where they go. "The Arlington County nonprofit group takes thousands of unwanted bikes in suburban Washington — where things go from coveted to clutter in an instant — and sends them overseas to people who need them."
Cyclist assaulted for no apparant reason. "1200 block of Wilson Boulevard. Arlington. On July 22 at 7 pm, a man was riding his bicycle when a car drove up beside him. The car ran him off the road and a passenger in the backseat reached out and pushed the victim over. The vehicle was a black sedan."
I saw Captain America last night so I didn't have time to check the news. I assume the whole debt cap thing is fixed, right?
Lydia DePillis turns her spotlight on the Tourmobile contract - the one that supposedly prevents Capital Bikeshare from going on the Mall. You're going to be shocked to hear this, but it may be illegal. And it doesn't actually preclude BikeSharing "Nothing in the language of the contract actually precludes the Park Service from allowing different forms of transportation on the Mall, interpretive or otherwise. Tourmobile has the right of first refusal there, but doesn’t get to block others." What are we going to do when DePillis gets scooped up by someone bigger?
MPD coudl take a lesson from the Mount Ranier Police Department. Here is a story for which they should be commended. A cyclist was bumped by a passing car..."Conveniently the police were out monitoring traffic so I told the officer what happened. He jumped into his car and raced after the guy. The guy came back to the police station and we talked about what happened. He said he saw me riding in the street but he didn’t see me as he was passing. That’s a little hard to understand since I’m on a day-glo orange bike wearing a orange safety vest with a super blinky light in back. The officer thought he was telling the truth though so after discussing it with me I decided to have him give the guy a ticket for ‘failing to yield’ which is a $120 hit." This despite there not be $2000 worth of damage or any injuries. You can see a video here of how closely he was passed or the photo at top.
The Examiner blames Montgomery County for "dropping the ball on BRAC." Now I've been following this since the beginning, so I'm not sure that's a fair characterization - the Pentagon should have come forward with more money, and five years is a short time span for a large project like this - but more importantly this sounds like an insult: "Montgomery County's hopelessly inadequate immediate solution consists largely of building pedestrian and bike trails and urging commuters to car pool." Bike trails are a fantastic solution if the roads are already congested. And perhaps the Examiner should actually wait to see what happens before they call it a complete failure. Do they not even read their own paper?
Laurel, MD is getting more bike-friendly. "Connecting newer parts of the city to downtown through safer bike and pedestrian routes will help draw more people to struggling Main Street shops, Brendle said."
Finally a Fox news story somehow ties together the CaBi expansion, Tregoning's crash and Tommy Wells' Frederick Douglass bike ride - and it doesn't feel too forced. I went on the bike ride, the highlight of which was crossing the bridge in the road (which I've never done, and is legal. The speed limit there is 30mph if you'll believe it) instead of on the sidepath. But most of the information given out is well known to readers here. No one honked at us either.
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