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  • Bike to Work Day Pre-registration Ends Today
    National Bike to Work Day is next Friday, May 16. Here in the Washington, D.C. area we celebrate the event with 26 pitstops throughout the region with two being right here in Arlington - one at Rosslyn's Gateway Park and the other at Crystal City's Water Park. The Gateway Park pitstop is at the intersection of Lee Highway and Lynn Street (just off the Custis Trail) and the Water Park is just off the Mt. Vernon Trail.

     

    Registration for Bike to Work Day is free and everyone who registers gets a t-shirt showing off to your coworkers that you biked to work. However, registration ends this Friday, so register now.

    For more information on how to prepare for Bike to Work Day and the route of the bicycle commuter caravan closest to your home, contact the Washington Area Bicyclist Association at 202.518.0524.
    From BikeArlington, May 7, 2008
     

  • Phoenix Bikes Program Combines Community Service With Skill-Building
    Phoenix Bikes, a non-profit community bike shop with after-school programs for middle school and high school students, tries to help solve this problem by offering Arlington's teens the chance to earn their own bicycle.
    By Kristen Armstrong, April 26, 2008, Sun Gazette
     
  • SmartBike Pedaling Starter Service
    Need to get to a meeting on the Hill? Lunch on K Street? Drinks in Georgetown? More Washingtonians could be pedaling to those appointments when the city launches the nation's first European-style bike-sharing service next month.
    By Sarah Karush, April 26, 2008, Washington Times
     
  • Bike-Sharing Services Roll into the U.S.
    City commuters weary of stuffy journeys aboard buses and subways now have a better way to get to work, buy groceries and meet for a Saturday matinee. The bike-sharing programs that have transformed Europeans into two-wheeled travelers are now en route to the U.S.
    By Hannah Hoag, MSNBC, April 6, 2008
     
  • Bike to Work Day
    Friday, May 16
     
  • Bike To Work Day, Meet Facebook
    If you've ever had to compete for time on your friends' busy calendars, this post is for you. We've made a Facebook event page for Bike to Work Day, so users of Facebook can easily invite their coworkers and friends to bike in on Friday, May 16th, and then easily keep track of who's coming.
    By Melissa Esposito, March 24, 2008, CommuterPageBlog
     
  • Will The High Price Of Oil Help Make 2008 The Year Of The Bicycle?
    Bicycling's best year since the start of the auto age? That's the argument likely to be made this week as hundreds of cyclists from across the nation gather in Washington for the National Bike Summit sponsored by the League of American Bicyclists. A crescendo of trends and developments makes the case.
    by Niel Pierce, Washington Post Writers Group; March 2, 2008
     
  • 4th Annual Arlington & Alexandria Community Bike Ride: June 7

     
  • GW Parkway Project at Humpback Bridge Starts
    The Federal Highway Administration, in cooperation with the National Park Service (NPS) will soon begin a road construction project to improve motorist and trail use safety on the Boundary Channel Humpback Bridge. "Humpback Bridge" is located on the George Washington Memorial Parkway (GWMP) just north of Interstate 395 and immediately south of the Columbia Island Marina. Work is expected to begin in early January 2008. Traffic delays are expected. During the three-year improvement project, both northbound and southbound lanes of the Parkway will experience construction at nonrush hour times. The Federal Highway Administration and the National Park Service urge motorists to seek alternative routes to avoid delays uring non-rush hour periods.

    The project will include replacing the historic "Humpback Bridge" using similar materials and configuration of the existing bridge, adding a new acceleration lane for northbound traffic from the I-395 on-ramp, and a separate wider path for users of the Mount Vernon rail. The grade of the road will be adjusted to improve sight
    distance over the bridge. A pedestrian crosswalk will be replaced with a tunnel under the parkway for safe access between the Columbia Island Marina and the Mount Vernon Trail and Potomac shoreline. A barrier will be placed along the "Humpback Bridge" to separate users of the Mount Vernon Trail from Parkway traffic. Additional safety improvements include closing the northbound vehicle entrance into the Columbia Island Marina and Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove parking areas. The project, when completed, is also expected to improve traffic flow.
    by National Park Service; January 4, 2008
     

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