Bicycles
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A photo guide to bicycling in the dark
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December may be a colder, darker month but many people still take to their bicycles to get around the District of Columbia. Here are 8 things worth remembering about the activity.
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Here are some last-minute holiday transportation gifts
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It's December 19, and Christmas is in six days. Are you still scrambling to buy gifts for a few friends? Never fear. Transportation lends itself well to the perfect holiday present. Here's a few ideas, from toy VW buses to pedestrian safety gear.
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Walking it back: Cyclists eye new bike lanes, a gender gap, and a scam infographic
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Find out where the District hopes to install new bike lanes, how much crime we've had in the Metro, and why you shouldn't sing the taxicab blues just yet. Here's the biggest transportation stories of the past week.
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An Internet scammer duped America's bike-lovers with a fancy infographic
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Bicyclists love to feel good about their chosen mode of transportation, so it's little surprise that a splashy visual called "How Bikes Can Save Us" spread across the Internet like wildfire this month. But the creator happens to be a notorious Internet scammer who attempted — and likely succeeded — at turning Google upside down.
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D.C.'s bicycling gender gap begins at the bike shop and at home
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WABA's first Cycling Forum destroyed the image of the American bicyclist as an older white man. A panel of nine women brought up the many obstacles that prevent girls from biking and plotted ways to change the statistics revealing two-thirds of bicyclists are men.
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D.C. reveals a map of the new bike lanes proposed for 2012
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Washington, D.C., are you ready for your next wave of bike lanes? Get excited because several improvements to bike infrastructure are on the way to our capital.
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The tonal quirks and misfires of Zipcar advertising
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Speak, Zipcar — but choose your voice carefully. The car-sharing giant has offended both bicyclists and gay people with its fall advertisements. Why is its tone coming off as so unhinged?
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Traffic laws? One D.C. bicyclist says she'll break them if it's safe
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Cyclists may pedal past red lights but that may be a natural, risk-free behavior for many on the road, according to one District rider. Should anyone be shocked by the idea that bicyclists don't follow this law? The road may be more complicated than our current system allows.
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Our capital's history of car, bike, and pedestrian violence, mapped
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What does a decade of road violence look like in Washington, D.C.? The imagination no longer has to suffice in answering this question — an interactive map of the death data from Jan. 1, 2001 to December 31, 2009 has emerged thanks to UK-based transport information specialists at ITO World
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The District's bike lanes need more women
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Men are far more likely than women to take to the handlebars in the District of Columbia. Why and what can be done? The Washington Area Bicyclist Association plans to tackle some of these questions in its first-ever Women's Cycling Forum next Monday night.
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As Capital Bikeshare expands, the Spotcycle bikesharing app gets an upgrade
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The popular smartphone application now better integrates maps and is available on the iPhone. As our bikeshare system grows, What better time for an upgrade, no?
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Yes, really: NPS proposes five Capital Bikeshare stations on the National Mall
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The National Park Service is a puzzling entity. One day, they'll seemingly let you down for no communication or follow-up regarding a bicycle hit-and-run on the GW Parkway. The next, NPS invites public comment on the five proposed Capital Bikeshare stations for the National Mall.
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Driver allegedly strikes bicyclist on GW Parkway, law firm offers $10K reward
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The driver hit his brakes, the car screeched, and smoke filled the air, according to the cyclists on the scene. One bicyclist ended up on the grass. Another faced a far worse fate — what happened next left bicyclist Phil Hepburn bedridden for six weeks with a broken hip.
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Cheers! The Tweed Ride is rolling through D.C. yet again
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Eric Brewer, founder of Dandies & Quaintrelles, imagines between 700 and 800 people might join him for the flashy, fashionable ride on Sunday, November 13. Hear his thoughts about what makes the experience special as well as why Metro commuters need to smile more.
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Momentum builds for the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail
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As a ribbon-cutting ceremony attracts powerful officials from the region, a new stretch of the trail signals a powerful and public commitment to the $50 million boon for our pedestrians and bicyclists.
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Picture of the day: Visions of DDOT's Rhode Island Ave. Pedestrian Bridge
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Pedestrians and bicicylists should get excited for the improvements coming to the blocks around the Rhode Island Avenue Metro station. A new pedestrian bridge will help people find the nearby Met Branch Trail.
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District bicyclists to D.C. Council: Yes, we need protection from angry drivers
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Today councilmembers heard from many of D.C.'s bicyclists about the failures of our roads — including the bicyclist struck in the well-publicized video of the Rhode Island Avenue accident. How should the Assault of Bicyclist Prevention Act of 2011 move forward?
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Metro history: The great bicycling renaissance of 1936
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The years of the Great Depression signaled the return of the bike in American culture. Why then and just how exactly did Hollywood play a role?
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