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The good news: Metro says it is busy installing 300 additional bike racks at stations across the system in time for Friday's Bike to Work Day, adding up to a 20 percent increase in bicycle storage options for commuters. The bad news: The Examiner is reporting that the opening of the long awaited Bike Transit Station at Union Station has been delayed once again, this time until July. “It’s a delay related to the construction,” District Department of Transportation spokesman John Lisle told the newspaper.
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What the hell is a bike transit station?
Yesterday at 5:00 PM at Gallery Place, three police-related (police in bike gear riding in support of Police Week) put their bikes on the Yellow Line train. They used the escalators to get to the train, used the center door to get on the train, put their kickstands down, and leaned the bikes across all center seats.
I said there are rules for bringing bikes on Metro, they said meh!
the visiting cops in town don't care—they know they have free reign and no chance of being called on for breaking rules...
of course, we're all used to nothing in the city happening on time construction-wise. as long as it gets done someday, that's better than nothing.
Come on now, do cyclists, AKA the whiniest people in DC, need something else to whine about?
Please. Everyone knows the whiniest people in DC are commuters from VA.
A bike transit station sounds like the worst waste of money ever. Instead of getting on the metro or buses like the rest of us, a bike transit station will allow bikers to cause traffic jams during rush hour while biking to Union Station, where they will change and then get on a metro or a bus and go to work.
A parking garage sounds like the worst waste of money ever. Instead of getting on the metro or buses like the rest of us, a parking garage will allow drivers to cause traffic jams during rush hour, endangering pedestrians and bicyclists with aggressive driving while driving to Union Station, where they will change and then get on a metro or a bus and go to work.
I took a recent photo of the bike transit station on Tuesday night, you can see it here.
Looks kind of strange to me, interested to see how it will end up.
HTML didn't work, here is the link to the photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26805586@N03/3528392319/
Thanks for the photo. If I didn't know better it looks like Metro or Amtrak tore up some tracks to add a roller coaster to their respective system. A real E-Ticket ride to work?
I'd pay extra and stand in long switch-back lines to be able to take a roller-coaster to work!
Delays delays delays...finish it already!
That's a hell of a lot of money for a fancy schmancy bike rack. Perhaps more bike lanes or more SmartBike stations would've been a smarter expenditure.