This Week in Bike Reads

No lanes in D.C. made People for Bikes’ list of
top 10 protected bike lanes in the U.S.
High-vis cycling gear might be in style, but
one study says it doesn’t affect a driver’s passing distance.
WAMU tackles two signifiers of DDOT’s great slowdown: the
incomplete Met Branch Trail and the
M Street cycletrack, which may or may not be finished by spring 2014. (Funnily enough, the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments has clearly stated that the region needs to
ease its dependence on driving as transportation.)
And you can watch or read
NBC4’s coverage of the Nov. 16 D.C. Council oversight hearing on DDOT.
That said, Voice of America is insistent that cycling
is totally an established thing in D.C.
MIT researchers have developed
something called the Copenhagen wheel, which can store energy you generate while riding your bike for later use.
Wash Cycle
digs into D.C. churches’ opposition to bike lanes.
Tons and tons and tons of bikes
can fit into one car-sized parking space.
The Hains Point 100
is on Sunday!
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Page last updated by Alex Baca on December 19, 2013.