Bike Arlington

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• Google Maps loves bicyclists
  In a partnership with the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, Google Maps added more than 12,000 miles of trails, bike lanes, and recommended routes for more than 150 cities (and counties, like ours truly) across the U.S., according to The Official Google Blog.
  By Paul DeMaio, March 10, 2010, CommuterPageBlog
   
• Bike directions added to Google Maps
  Google on Wednesday launched bicycle directions for Google Maps making it easier for cyclists to plan routes in 150 U.S. cities including Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Portland and Washington, DC.
  By Ian Paul, March 10, 2010, PC World
   
• Bike the Blossoms 2010
  WABA will again have its bike valet, and Bike and Roll and NPS will again do tours of the blossoms, via the going out gurus.
  March 9, 2010, WashCycle
   
• More information key to overhaul of DDOT's Web site
  Transportation departments are slowly evolving from construction agencies into mobility services. They still will build and repair roads, but they also will work with communities to create new ways of moving by car, bus, streetcar, bicycle or foot power.
  By Robert Thomson, March 7, 2010, Washington Post
   
• 3 pedestrians struck in separate incidents; 2 dead
  Three pedestrians were killed or critically injured by vehicles in three separate incidents within an hour of one another across the D.C. region Saturday morning, police said. In two of the cases, police said, the drivers did not stop.
  By Matt Zapotosky, March 7, 2010, Washington Post
   
• DDOT launches Potholepalooza
  Potholepalooza is a month long campaign to proactively and aggressively repair thousands of potholes throughout the city.
  March 5, 2010, DDOT
   
• Chain Bridge closed March 12-15
  
   
• DDOT to remove reversible lanes on 15th Street
  "It will improve the flow of traffic, make the businesses more accessible, and make 15th Street safer for everyone: motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians."
  March 4, 2010, WTOP
   
• Chain Bridge will be closed March 12-15
  The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) is advising motorists that it plans to completely close the Chain Bridge on the weekend of March 12-15 for reconstruction work on the bridge deck, approaches and structural steel beams.
   
• Giro d'Italia bicycle race is making its way to Washington, D.C. in 2012
  The Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's three Grand Tours, is on schedule to begin in the District in 2012, marking the first time one of the sport's most prominent races would conduct a stage outside Europe.
  By Gene Wang, February 26, 2010, Washington Post
   
• Draft VA route of East Coast Greenway
   
• How to report a pothole