Sprockets and Spokes

Lydia DePillis of the Washington City Paper wrote good article about the region's bike sharing program, Capital BikeShare, as she rides with Juan Botero as he distributes bikes across city. While most of the article discussed the growing pains of bike program's operators, Alta, and the changes in the program from the Smartbike pilot to now, she also describes a bicycle divide separated by the Anacostia River.

Treehugger was talking a lot about bike parking this week, with each concept just as intriguing as the last:

• Fancy Vertical Bike Racks for Long-Term Parking by Michael Graham Richard
• Bike Hanger: Vertically Rotating, Multi-Level Bike Parking By Manifesto Architecture by Kimberley Mok
• Readers Comment on Vertical Bike Parking and Obama's Reelection Campaign by David DeFranza

In another Greater Greater Washington Great Debate, the sites contributors discussed if that Living Social CaBi deal from last week was great or too great.