Posts about Bicycling
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Bike lane forces bus reroute on Pennsylvania Avenue
The 13B Metrobus line has been making an extra loop after the Pennsylvania Avenue bike lane forbade left turns onto 10th Street, WMATA officials said. The bus, which runs a counterclockwise loop between the Pentagon, the Federal Triangle, and Arlington Cemetery, currently uses Pennsylvania Avenue westbound between 6th and 10th Streets, NW, where it turns left on 10th. The… Keep reading…
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Capital Bikeshare, launching today, will change everything
DC and Arlington deserve a lot of credit for having the vision to bring modern bike-sharing to DC. As a result, things will never be the same again when Capital Bikeshare launches 36 stations in DC and 13 in Arlington today. It was almost five years ago to the day that DC first announced that they would be bringing bike-sharing to the District. It wasn’t considered very important… Keep reading…
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Struck in DC this week: 8 pedestrians, 6 cyclists
Each week, we map cyclist and pedestrian crashes in the District. Keep reading…
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Even bike owners will benefit from joining Capital Bikeshare
Next Monday, I will take to the roads on DC on a brand new bike that is not mine. Despite owning my own bike, I decided to invest in a Capital Bikeshare membership. Other DC bike owners should, too. The new Capital Bikeshare program kicks off next week and will offer 1,000 bikes at over 100 stations spread across the District and Arlington’s Crystal City neighborhood. … Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Taking control
Arlington gets Columbia Pike; Alexandria to get multi-space meters; Trader Joe’s eyes Clarendon, wants parking; Sharing the road; Zoning stifling jobs?; Elevated Dulles much cheaper; New 99 bus?; Visualizing commutes. Keep reading…
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Could carbon credits fund bike-sharing systems?
A few weeks ago at an angel-investment presentation, I had the fortune of meeting the founders of Philadelphia-based CityRyde, bike-sharing consultants who are launching a platform called “Inspire” to facilitate the exchange of carbon credits between bike-sharing agencies and carbon producers (or investors). What the guys at CityRyde (a competitor of MetroBike,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Violence about the roads
Ride the inaugural CaBis; Speed hump leads to murder; 3 pedestrians hit; Adams Morgan victim dies; Estimate your transportation costs; Trans-Hudson tunnel halted; Build your own streetcar; Singing a new Metro song. Keep reading…
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Struck in DC this week: 6 pedestrians, 4 cyclists
While last week was a quiet one on the District’s roads, this week was anything but. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Buses off, buses on
PG bus drivers on strike; Buses back in service; Metro takes bids on U Street; No more “Highway to Nowhere”; New community center in Shaw; Promoting mixed-income TOD; Not so rapid transit. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Endangered peds, bikes and parking spaces
Why Prince Georgians jaywalk; Cyclist hit on Clarendon Boulevard; Van Ness project wants no parking; DC plans climate action; DDOT parking meter pilot survey; Nightlife at heart of ANC contests; Women lead surge in urban biking; Obama’s helmet is effeminate, cowardly. Keep reading…