Bike Station covered on WETA-FM

(The portion of this blog entry in smaller type is reprinted from Washcycle, the region's best blog focusing exclusively on bicycling issues.)

[On December 12th] from 11:00 am to Noon, Jim Sebastian with DDOT [was]on the Intersection on WETA talking about the new Bike Station. Get your comments and questions in before you go to the meeting tomorrow night. So whether you think the bike station looks "out of place next to the beautiful Beaux Arts style Union Station" or you think it's the best thing since clip in pedals this is a chance to get your opinion heard.

Addendum: The Get There blog is talking about this project too.
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Note that I wasn't aware of the Intersection radio program. Therefore, I've added this as a link in the "Regional Media" section of links in the right sidebar.

Washcycle has many other great entries. Be sure to check them out.

Also, on a related bicycling matter, check out this article, "Trail's opening eyed as path to prosperity: The completed Great Allegheny Passage is expected to bring tourists to Cumberland," from the Baltimore Sun on the Allegheny Passage Trail, which allows straight-through bicycling from DC to Pittsburgh.

Plus, as far as Dr. Gridlock and the various commenters to the Get There blog entry on bike stations:

We need TDM requirements that would make office buildings add accommodations to bicyclists, if the buildings are already providing structured parking. Baring that, Business Improvement Districts should work to bring Bike Station services to their districts. Certainly Downtown and the Golden Triangle districts are in need of such services. Maybe Capitol Hill and Georgetown too, although they tend to not have much in the way of office buildings. Certainly in the future as the Mount Vernon and NoMA BIDs develop,those districts ought to have accommodations for bicyclist commuters.

So too for the Transportation Management Districts in Montgomery County. (Don't know exactly what Arlington does but I'm sure it's great.)

Plus, perhaps with the suasion possibilities of the DC Government "pedestrian, bicycling, and transportation demand management program," maybe the: (1) YMCA at Rhode Island Avenue and 17th Street NW; (2) the YWCA downtown at G and 9th Streets NW (Gallery Place Fitness Center); and (3) the DC Jewish Community Center at 16th and Q Streets NW could be convinced to develop a kind of "bicyclist-only" membership providing bicyclist-commuters with the ability to have lockers and shower privileges.

It's a way to utilize facilities at times they are unlikely to be used, plus each of these institutions can make more money.

Index Keywords: bicycling; transportation-demand-management