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Thanks Steve for posting. Here’s the blurb I was going to post:

This year marks the 200th birthday of the bicycle. Come celebrate with a ‘running machine’ race and birthday party. The unique bicycle race will be open to all ages and will not allow any pedaling at all. Kids should bring their skoots and older cyclists should be prepared to remove their pedals. All will get prizes and some will walk away the coveted Baron Karl Von Drais Bikecentennial Velocipede Cup. The race is free but we are suggesting a small donation to Kingman and Heritage Islands. Races start at RFK parking lot, below the East Capitol Street Bridge starting at 3pm on June 11th. Register here.

The races will be followed by a birthday party at Biergarten Haus starting at 5pm.

For more information visit the Washcycle

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@Raymo853 142951 wrote:

Does anyone know if the station on Randle Circle SE (next to Fort Dupont) is being rehabed or has been discontinued? The CaBi website’s system falsely said it is active and has bike, hard to be true since it is just gone, gone like the Borg transported it away.

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Temporarily moved for permeable pavement installation

http://www.capitalbikeshare.com/news/2016/06/01/service-alert-dc-stations-on-the-move

https://twitter.com/bikeshare/status/751109766248738816

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@Steve O 142794 wrote:

As long as the desire line exists, it will be taken, so better to pave it and make it as safe as possible than to pretend that people will stay on the pavement. Someone once suggested that a bush could be planted there to eliminate the use of the line. I do not like this idea, as it will make sight lines even worse.

(I feel the exact same way about the desire line at the 14th St. bridge, FWIW)

I don’t even think a bush would do it. You would need a wall. If only there were someone who liked walls, but not Bushs.

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@sjclaeys 141951 wrote:

Another way that Alexandria may be passing Arlington, actually posting the links to bike committee meeting minutes.

Or even posting the minutes someplace on line.

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@MissPitts 141824 wrote:

I occasionally bike to work using a Capital BikeShare bike. Are my membership fees eligible for pre-tax reimbursement? My employer won’t actually pay for it but can I set aside pre-tax dollars to reimburse myself with for this service? I keep finding conflicting info online. Thanks for any insight.

In short no. For two reasons.

1. Unlike other commuter benefits you can’t set aside your own money for the Bicycle Commuter Benefit. You can only get this if your boss is willing to pay you extra money. Of course, you could work that out in place of an annual bonus or a gym benefit or something, but you can’t use your own money.

2. In 2013, the IRS ruled that the bicycle commuter benefit can’t be used for bikesharing membership or fees. In 2014, an amendment to the EXPIRE Act was passe that would have changed this, but that bill was killed because it would have also extended tax benefits for wind power.

http://www.thewashcycle.com/2014/04/expanding-the-bike-commuter-benefit-is-not-a-bike-sharing-subsidy.html

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/domestic-taxes/206247-republicans-block-progress-on-tax-breaks#ixzz31stcNnU7

It was then added to the Tax Relief Extension Act of 2015, which has passed out of Senate committee, but is still awaiting a Senate vote. It probably won’t get one, because many of the other provisions -like transit parity – were included in last December’s omnibus

http://www.peopleforbikes.org/blog/entry/bicycle-tax-benefit-could-cover-bike-sharing-costs

Chuck Shumer is the champion of that amendment, and he’s in line to become Minority or Majority leader next year (as I understand it) so it may get a chance to pass in the future.

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1. Check the fine. As someone else noted, the fines for bike infractions are often less than for cars, and I would not be surprised if a police officer didn’t know that. In DC fines are lower, but I don’t know about DC.

2. In some place, but not here, cyclists are allowed to go when the ped light is green (the LPI or leading Pedestrian Interval). WABA actually suggested that such a provision be added to a DC law recently. It’s a reasonable policy, but probably won’t become law in Virginia any time soon.

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I wouldn’t say the work has stalled. On the west side, the bridge is finished and on the east I see work moving forward.

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I’m going to go with everyone else here – you shouldn’t run in the cycletrack. It’s illegal too if that matters. In bike lanes, I let it slide – but prefer runners to go with traffic. But on the cycletrack, cyclists are blocked in. I still wouldn’t say something to anyone, because I don’t like getting my ass kicked, but I’d grumble.

But this really speaks to the fact that there just aren’t enough good places to run and bike in DC. So we’re left fighting for table scraps.

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@rcannon100 23140 wrote:

Threats of violence should not be tolerated on this forum

But threats of violins are OK, even though I prefer woodwinds.

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To answer the initial question I use panniers. It’s so much better.

But I’ll add that one idea is to bring less stuff. What are you bringing?

A lap top? Probably unavoidable, but worth asking if you really need to bring it home at night.
Clothes? I found a cleaners near work. On Monday I stop by and pick up clothes and store them in my locker all week. On Thursday evening I drop it off (except clothes for Friday).
Lunch? Here again, I go to the grocery store near work and store everything in the work fridge or my office.

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If what I learned from years of watching CHiPs is applicable, they were probably in hot pursuit of an arsonist or a gang of RV thieves.

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How about the Fairfax Loop? Just to confuse people.

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@Greenbelt 15612 wrote:

Thanks in advance and sincerely yours,

Pennsylvania Ave. median bike lanes

PS. Here is the NOAA climate prediction center’s updated temperature forecast for March. http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/30day/

I think it is a safe bet that we will not have any heavy snow events this March (or this winter), and that all the bollards that were removed for the possibility of slow plowing can now be re-installed for Spring-Summer-Fall.

Contact Mike Goodno at DDOT.

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@MCL1981 15374 wrote:

It is stupid and dangerous.

I disagree on both counts. Can you cite a time when someone in DC was injured doing it?

@MCL1981 15374 wrote:

Yes, they do give you a bad name. You’re just in denial about it. Whatever makes you feel better.

Well, we have an old-fashioned disagreement here. Can you prove they give me a bad name? Since you seem so sure.

If every time someone in a group I’m associated does something bad it gives me a “bad name” then I’m in trouble, because I’m half German. And you know who else is German right?

That’s right, Roland Emmerich. Did you see “Day After Tomorrow”? Talk about giving me a bad name….

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@MCL1981 15234 wrote:

I’ll be on my bike stopped in a line of cars on Penn. Then someone on a bike will come careening past me on the left and continue between the lines of cars, cut in front of the front car,

None of which is illegal.

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then run the red light in a cross-traffic gap. Usually mowing down a few peds in the process.

I’m not sure how exaggeration is helpful. Cyclists rarely hit pedestrians. And certainly not “usually”. Have you even seen a cyclist hit a pedestrian. I have exactly once – on a trail.

@MCL1981 15234 wrote:

People that recklessly ride around like that give everyone a bad name.

They don’t give me a bad name. No more than drunk drivers give all drivers a bad name, or bad Catholics give all Catholics a bad name.

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