I was walking from my office to the Metro station the other day and noticed this new bike rack in Farragut Square. It's SmartBikeDC, a new program from DDOT and Clear Channel Outdoor (an advertising company). Upside: The price is right -- $40 for the year with unlimited rentals.
Downside: Locations are clustered in downtown DC and you can only rent them for three hours at a stretch.
Arlington County Board member Jay Fisette is spearheading an effort to bring kiosks, possibly including bike rentals, to Arlington. For $40 a year, I'd definitely sign up! On the weekends, a bike would be way quicker to get from, say, Ballston to Courthouse than waiting up to 20 minutes each way for an Orange Line train.
Eric Gilliland of the Washington Area Bicyclist Association was on the Kojo Nnamdi show today talking about bicycle commuting.
ReplyDelete"[We should show motorists that] the more people who are on bikes, the less congested the streets are, the more parking spaces they have, the lower will be the price of gasoline."
Listen at: http://wamu.org/audio/kn/08/08/k2080812-21921.asx