Spoke'n Word - Cyclist Struck on WOD last week - Virginia Bicycle Awareness Month - Interbike - The Transportation Apocalype

• Arlington cyclist struck by motorist last weekend at W&OD Trail and Maple Ave FABB
• Virginia Bicyclist and Pedestrian Awareness Month
• Cycling is all about the suffering, Dustin (read thru the week)
• The Official Transportation of the Apocalypse: Bike-sharing programs prepare us for the end times. Slate

Upcoming Alexandria Bike Lane Meetings

A public meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 18 to discuss proposed bike lanes for King Street between Russell Road and Janney's lane in Alexandria.

When: Wednesday, September 18. 7:00 pm
Where: Maury Elementary Cafeteria, 600 Russell Road

The City of Alexandria is proposing to narrow the moving lanes to provide traffic calming and install bicycle lanes in both directions. These will connect to the King Street Metro to the new bicycle lanes installed on Janney’s Lane, as called for in the City’s Pedestrian and Bicycle Mobility Plan, and will require parking removal on that section of King Street.  Do to the removal of parking we expect a lot of opposition.

On Monday, September 23rd, Alexandria’s Traffic and Parking Board will review proposed bike lanes for King Street between West Cedar Street and Janney's Lane.

When: Monday, September 23, 7:30 pm
Where: Council Chambers, City Hall, 301 King Street

The decision on this rests with the Transportation Department, with the advice of the Traffic and Parking Board. Thanks to all who have already contacted the Alexandria City Council. That helps our elected leaders understand the breadth of support for this important proposal.

A poll on whether people want the bike lanes.

Spoke'n Word - Sept. 14 Alex PBAC Family Ride - PP Farm Tour and Picnic - Portland Transport Boss' Bike Stolen - Hammerhead Bike Nav - How Many Cars Did I Pass Today

• ALEX PBAC Family Ride is Saturday Sept. 14, 10 am starting at Velocity
• Another potential excellent Fall ride: Potomac Pedalers Montgomery County Farm Tour and Picnic Sept. 29
• Portland transportation boss' bicycle stolen (again) (Buy. a. U-Lock)
• And now the MVT article has been picked up by Connecticut press 
• Graeme Obree challenges speed record with radical bike, BBC
• Hammerhead bike navigator simplifies adventurous rides, CNET

This video was tweeted by our good friends at Bike Arlington.  When I ride home up the Custis Trail up Lee Hwy, I regularly like to race the 3 bus up Lee Hwy to Glebe Road.  I almost always win.

Spoke'n Word - Kidical Mass Arl Harvest Ride Sept 15 - Registration now open for Fairfax Bike Summit - Bicycle Thefts on the Rise - Fixtation Opens -

• Registration now open for Fairfax Bike Summit Nov 2
• Judge rules on bicyclists' right to road; long-running Hadley bicycle harassment case moves to trial
• Phoenix Bikes Fixtation Vending Machine is reportedly up and running in Crystal City Water Park
• Article about MVT gets picked up by the SFGATE 
• New Garmin Touring GPS
• This all-in-one bicycle is designed to replace cars in the city, Wired
• Kidical Mass Arlington Harvest Ride: Sunday, September 15, 2013
• Bicycle Thefts on the rise, WAPO  
• A Bicycle for the Blind, BBC 
• Pledge to be Car Free, win valuable prizes

One of the many fall rides in Virginia: The Rappahannock Rough Ride .  Here is a 2007  and a 2010 Blog report from the ride.

Spoke'n Word - 13 Ways to Steal a Bicycle - 233 Year History of the Bicycle - HAWKs to be seen on GWParkway - @APSVirginia Celebrates Biking to School

• The 233 Year History of the Bicycle in a Chart Gizmodo
• Green, Stuart P., Introduction: Symposium on Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle (August 28, 2013). New England Law Review, Vol. 47, No. 4, 2013.
• What is the optimal level of specificity for defining criminal offenses? How should we divide and classify crimes so that they accurately represent a given criminal act’s distinctive features -- whether it is wrongfulness, harmfulness, deterrability, or detectability -- while at the same time avoiding the kind of over-particularity that leads to needless confusion and problems in administrability? Nowhere are these issues more difficult or contested than in connection with the law of theft -- owing to the extraordinary diversity in how rights in property are formulated, the peculiar twists and turns of legal history and law reform, and the sheer ingenuity that offenders use to infringe such rights.
  
  The proper level of offense specificity in theft law is a key theme dealt with in my recent book, Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle: Theft Law in the Information Age. It is also a theme that, to one degree or another, has engaged the attention of the distinguished group of commentators gathered by the New England Law Review for this symposium on the book: Susan Brenner, David Gray and Chelsea Jones, Peter Karol, Mary Sigler, and Ken Simons. This introduction sets the stage for the contributions that follow and offers a selective rebuttal to at least some of the arguments offered.
• Arlington Public Schools Superintendent Celebrates biking to school
  
  
  Parkway Traffic and Safety Improvements
  
      The George Washington Memorial Parkway, in consultation with the Federal Highway Administration, will be temporarily installing a flashing beacon warning system at the trail crosswalk of the northbound lanes of the Parkway just prior to Arlington Memorial Bridge, one mile north of I-395.  The temporary installation is planned to be in place for approximately thirty days between early September and early October as a trial to help inform the upcoming environmental assessment process that will evaluate long-term safety and traffic improvements in the area.
      The warning system is designed for bicyclists and pedestrians who want to cross the Parkway and to alert motorists of the presence of trail users.  Trail users can activate the flashing beacon and notify motorists of their intention to cross the Parkway.  The purpose is to improve safety and increase awareness by slowing down traffic when pedestrians and bicyclists want to cross the Parkway.

Phoenix Bike Sale Saturday Sept 7 at Big Bear Cafe #bikedc #arlingtonva

To quote the keepers of the rules:

Rule #12// The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.

While the minimum number of bikes one should own is three, the correct number is n+1, where n is the number of bikes currently owned. This equation may also be re-written as s-1, where s is the number of bikes owned that would result in separation from your partner.

Here's your opportunity for N+1 from Phoenix Bikes

Arlington Street Survey - Win a Kindle Fire!

Photo by Cliff1066 (Flickr (CC))

BikeArlington is hoping you can help BA out with a new project BA working on:

BikeArlington wants to do a new style of map and we want some community input. We’ve put together a short 3 minute survey and are going to be giving out a Kindle Fire to one respondent and need help spreading the word to non-bikers. Regular bikers and commuters like yourselves are good too and we're not trying to exclude anyone, but we don’t have as much trouble getting reaching the regulars.

Here it is: http://www.bikearlington.com/survey