15th and I. Photo by Wayan Vota on Flickr.

Parking parking everywhere and not a drop for bikes: Despite a city law mandating bike parking, there’s just not enough, leaving racks bursting at office buildings from Friendship Heights to the U.S. Senate, writes the City Paper. And as WashCycle found out, Metro won’t even return calls about renting bike lockers at New Carrollton. Meanwhile, Chicago is building new enclosed buildings for bike parking at major El stations.

Get Met Branch. It pays. At least the Metropolitan Branch Trail is moving forward. Another segment (New York Avenue to Franklin Street) has a signed contract, and the bridge over Rhode Island Avenue is being designed, reports Bloomingdale (for now).

NIMBYs vacation in developments they’d oppose: Next American City looks at a supreme irony: when suburbanites choose where to vacation, they usually look for walkable beachfront towns with higher density than their homes. Many of the same people fight against the very same density back home. (That’s because higher density in beachfront towns doesn’t bring lower-income and/or minority residents the way people fear it would elsewhere.) Via Planetizen.

Nobody drives there because it’s too crowded: One of San Francisco’s supervisors is resurrecting an idea to ban cars on Market Street. With historic streetcars and high foot traffic, it’s a perfect place for a pedestrian and transit boulevard. Plus, with so many turn restrictions to get off Market and very wide parallel streets in SoMa, it’s already the least pleasant street to drive on in the area.