Posts tagged Bike Parking
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Breakfast links: What you didn’t expect
Spacey takes CaBi; Gentrification reduces displacement?; Ward 8 isn’t the most jobless; Ervin supports the bag fee; CityCenterNowHappening; We have a lot of bike commuters; A little bit of tolerance; No tolerance for ads; And…. Keep reading…
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Morning links: Rebutting stereotypes and arguments
End tired bicycle stereotypes; “Cheap shot” on BRAC; Floreen vs. the bag fee; Talking buses hot topic in Portland; Metro morsels; How to win a contest; TJ parents argue over ESL; Tell residents, not commuters, about program; Lessons from New York. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Jobs and education for DC
Ensuring jobs for DC’s own; Graduate School to anchor waterfront; DC area dorms among best and worst; Metro faces serious backlog; Zero real plots against Metro; ANCs eschew liquor bans; PG may lose development oversight; From the desk of Vince Gray; And…. Keep reading…
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Kennedy Center guard bullies patron for parking a bike
Last week, a guard at the Kennedy Center threatened to steal my bike if I dared to park it on the sidewalk. I had arrived by bike to see a show, and found that the rack on F St was already crowded, and didn’t look especially sturdy. I walked nearby to a sign post and began to lock it up. A guard (pictured right) approached me, yelling at me that I could not park my bike there. I insisted… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Fundamental rights
ACLU will sue over bag searches; Federal cost cutting hurts regional transit; Delaware gets more train service; what about Maryland; New Anacostia library an architectural success; Who’s running in Arlington; NYC rethinking rethinking 34th Street; And…; A roar on Arora. Keep reading…
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Metro trying new technology, communication with parking
Parking operations have always been a relatively staid and unexciting part of Metro’s operations, but suddenly it’s rife with innovation and some of the best communication with riders anywhere in the organization. Metro is piloting a secure bike room in the College Park garage, and asked riders for input on how and whether to charge for access. Another pilot will… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Good Republican, Bad Democrat
Mara is in the race; Congressman wants to widen BW Parkway; Secure bike cage coming to College Park; 15-year-old pedestrian killed in PG; New Glenmont garage underway; Metro improvements delayed in MoCo; Keeping Columbia Pike affordable; McDonnell proposes teacher performance pay; And…. Keep reading…
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Christmas Eve links: What Santa’s bringing you
Have yourself a Merry Transit Christmas; All I want for the holidays…; FreshDirect in DC?; Bike parking to be enforced; Baltimore United?; DC not really least business-friendly; Freeways that weren’t; And…. Keep reading…
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Metro proposes quintupling bicycle access mode share
Metro has completed its study of pedestrian and bicycle access to Metrorail stations. The recommendations include an aggressive yet important goal of tripling the percentage of riders who arrive by bicycle by 2020 and quintupling it by 2030. In 2007, 0.7% of Metrorail riders arrived by bicycle. Metro’s ridership is growing, but adding parking capacity is extremely… Keep reading…
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Security bollards could also provide bike parking
Security measures are often antithetical to good urban design and vibrant city streets. But instead of hoping for them to go away, we can at least push for them to serve other uses as well, like doubling as bike racks. Foggy Bottom, where I live, has high security neighbors like the State Department, Federal Reserve, several high profile embassies, the IMF and the World Bank. … Keep reading…