Saturday, May 19, 2012
Friday was Bike to Work Day.
The Ballston Business Improvement District was out bright and early Friday to celebrate a new Capital Bikeshare station and promote Bike to Work Day. The BID, as it is called, planted itself in front of Freshbikes, 3924 Wilson Blvd., giving away aluminum water bottles and bicycle-friendly water bags. People signed up for a raffle to win one of two iPods or autographed Washington Capitals gear — including a jersey signed by the 2011-12 team, a puck signed by Mike Green and a hockey stick signed by Alex Ovechkin. Winners will be announced Sunday at the Taste of Arlington. Arlington County Board Vice Chairman Walter Tejada dropped by to join Ballston Business Improvement District CEO Tina Leone for Friday's event. Leone was also out earlier …
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Arlington County is trying to enlist the public’s help in mapping out a long-term strategy for Capital Bikeshare.
Arlington County hasn’t been shy about engaging the public over the Capital Bikeshare, or CaBi, system. When deciding on station placement for the last round of expansion, they held public meetings and launched an online crowdsourcing effort. Now the county is asking for help in thinking about the bigger picture: How should CaBi grow in the long term? It’s looking for answers as part of its effort to create a Transit Development Plan for CaBi. In Virginia, such plans are normally prepared for bus and rail systems every six years. As Arlington County describes it, they “allow agencies to systematically plan for service expansion and improvements in a strategic and fiscally realistic fashion.” With a CaBi Transit Development Plan, the idea …
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
It’s been one year – and one million trips – for the biggest bike sharing system in the United States. Arlington County took the lead in bringing Capital Bikeshare to the region – so why haven’t we seen more of them in Arlington?
On Sept. 20, 2010, I and many other people rode the first wave of Capital Bikeshare (CaBi) bikes from the Washington Navy Yard to their home docking stations around the region. While I was convinced the bikeshare program was a good idea that would improve local transportation, I – and most of us, I think – really had no idea that it would turn out to be so popular. They’re all over the district, carrying commuters from Mount Pleasant, tourists along the National Mall, and errand-runners all over the place. So where are they in Arlington? Well, they’re certainly in Crystal City. The initial CaBi launch placed more than 100 bikes in the Crystal City and Pentagon City neighborhoods. The population density of the area was ideal, and the …
Michael H.
1:19 pm on Sunday, April 1, 2012
Many car drivers seem to do whatever they want too. Not all, but a significant percentage. This includes speeding on local roads, running red lights and STOP signs, driving while texting on a phone and not looking at anything around them, and forcing pedestrians out of crosswalks when the pedestrians have the right of way and are already halfway through the crosswalk before the car arrives. Doesn… more ›