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@consularrider 82458 wrote:

Note how much of that trash are the foam food containers, probably the box lunches the busloads bring in. They sould be require to police their own trash and haul it back out again. Pack it in, Pack it out! 😡

I think DC (and others) should go with the polystrene ban. There is just no need for all the waste for one stupid meal.
http://www.treehugger.com/environmental-policy/new-york-city-bans-styrofoam.html

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@lordofthemark 82322 wrote:

1. Rode Bluemont Junction Trail for the first time. Nice. I am curious if NVRPA has ever considered a sign for it from the W&OD though.

I agree and have wondered the same thing.

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In case anyone’s interested, I asked someone I know in Falls Church what the level of discussion was there and he said the following: “We have had discussions in Falls Church about CaBi, including reps from that organization. The challenge is that they don’t want to open just one station, but need several of them to justify the investment. For now, there is interest in having new development projects (along Broad Street) install them. It will make it a lot easier if there are CaBi stations in EFC, and WFC metro stations. Our City Council is definitely interested in this.”

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I don’t see it on the drafthouse site.

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Could someone articulate the specific arguments behind why it would make sense for Arlington to be encouraged to offer a similar resolution?

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@rcannon100 69589 wrote:

There are two questions here.

First, can individual CABI costs be reimbursed (just like a taxi fare or other travel expenses). Ed Fendley at EPA apparently was successful at getting EPA to do a trial run of reimbursing these expenses. I cannot tell you how it was structured, but Ed might be able to help.

Second, the agency acting as a CABI partner and giving CABI memberships to staff as a benefit. There are two important notes here. CABI wants the agency to set up an account, have staff come to CABI and set up memberships, and CABI will charge the agency for the agreed rate (at the silver rate for example, agency pays $25 and staff pays $25). I asked how the agency can know how much it will spend; the answer was “It cant.” The agency can turn off the account eventually, but however many staff sign up is what the agency pays. I am not a procurement attorney but I suspect this is a violation of the antideficiency act (the agency cant spend money it does not have; therefore the agency must be able to limit how much is spent). The second alternative is that the agency buys a set number of memberships. So we bought 100 memberships. The agency hands out coupon codes. The staff redeems those coupon codes. Agency pays $25; staff pays $25; staff receives a $50 benefit. There is an issue here about whether the coupon codes actually get redeemed (there should be an audit to make sure the codes get used).

Finally, the IRS has issued a letter saying that an agency giving CABI memberships out is a taxable benefit. In the example above, staff received a $50 benefit. That is a taxable benefit.

Does this help?

Yes. It helps; thanks. Perhaps I’ll contact Ed.

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Headquarters is in SW DC.

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Does this route only work going toward DC and does it only work at certain times? Thanks.

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After 10 years of riding around Ft Myer, I finally rode through it and Arlington Cemetery for the first time yesterday. Still don’t have everything figured out, but appreciate everyone’s pointers. The ride through the cemetery was awesome albeit a little sad to think about the coming destruction of the forest.

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Different numbers but same problem at Great Falls. There can be a line of cars out to Old Dominion, throwing their exhaust out while they wait for their hunk of asphalt, but cars still cost barely more than one bicycle. Cars cost $5; bikes cost $3. Ludicrous. Charge more for cars and more people can get into Great Falls. I’d use the surplus for a weekend shuttle from the metro.

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And, unless I’m wrong, strollers are permitted on escalators while bikes are not. I will race up an escalator with my bike against someone with a doublewide any day.

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Nothing shocking here, but last night riding west through Rosslyn, I had a typically unpleasant experience trying to push through the crosswalk at Lynn on Custis. At either N Quinn or N Scott, I came upon probably 10+ ACPD cars and one man waiting on something or another. Probably had been an accident, but I didn’t see any vehicles beyond police cars. Makes one wonder if they couldn’t reallocate an officer or two.

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Thanks. Can’t get there that early but I really appreciate the response.

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The last time I had a flat near there, I just jogged it to a bike shop, but I have to agree that the many offers of assistance are very nice indeed.

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@Tim Kelley 59387 wrote:

http://arlingtonbikelaneblockers.tumblr.com/

Thanks for the quick reply. Unfortunately, that site seems to be beyond my technical capacity. I see where I’m supposed to enter my name and email address, but not where to put the photo. Does that come in a later step?

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