Arlington-Alexandria Community Bike Ride this saturday

For the second year in a row _I won't be able to attend this event_. I think it's great, if not a bit too big (but Arlington is small, 23 square miles...). We need to rebuild familiarity and comfortability with bike riding, what better way that a community bike ride, sponsored by the municipality?

I have argued in the past that we need to do this in DC, but at the Ward level -- in other words, instead of one big bike ride at the outset, how about 8 smaller, regularly scheduled events.

Barring that, it can be by neighborhoods -- Capitol Hill, Georgetown, Anacostia, Deanwood, Tenleytown, Brookland, Takoma (although also with Takoma Park, MD), etc.

For more information on the Arlington-Alexandria Community Bike Ride (maybe I will pop over to the start just to see how it is set up) this Saturday, June 7th, click here.

It's being coordinated by the Washington Area Bicyclist Association.