D.C. Bicycle Advisory Council

The bimonthly BAC meeting is this Wednesday evening beginning at 6pm, May 1, 2013. BAC will discuss reports from our subcommittees and other bike-related topics including the status of bicycle facilities by the District Department of Transportation. The meeting will take place at 441 4th Street, NW at One Judiciary Square, in Room 1114, which is on the 11th floor. Please remember to bring government identification to enter the building. To get to the meeting room, please use the South lobby elevators. Bicycle parking is available in front of the building, please remember to also bring your bike lock. As always, BAC meetings are open to the public and we encourage you sharing your thoughts.

Tuesday, April 9, 2-13, WeMoveDC held a web-based chat regarding transportation challenges both in the District and regionally. Below is a log containing questions asked and answers provided by WeMoveDC / District Department of Transportation staff. Audience Question: Q: Will the slides from this presentation be made available to us after the workshop (emailed or at a website?) A: Yes, on the website under the resources tab on the website. www.wemoveDC.org Audience Question: Q: how about taxi drivers? A: DDOT works on this with the taxi cab commission, both specifically and generally. Special outreach has been done with this group. Audience Question: Q: How can create a better funding and governance mechanism for regional transportation (From Baltimore to Richmond, from Annapolis to Dulles)? A: We are working with regional, state, and local partners to start to identify solutions. MWCOG has an important role in the finance and funding discussion. Recently, Virg...

Below are images of the installation of a new traffic signal near the 5200 block of North Capitol Street as it crosses Hamilton Street. The signal will allow bicyclists to use Hamilton Street eastbound and Gallatin Street westbound instead of using Gallatin as a bi-directional bicycle sharrow on a one-way vehicular street. The installation of the traffic signal will also allow pedestrians, bicyclists and cars to cross North Capitol street, which can be difficult due to heavy traffic in the blocks between Missouri Avenue and Gallatin Street and the relatively high rate of vehicle speed during off-peek travel hours.

Please join the Bicycle Advisory Council's Facilities Committee (BAC-FAC) on a ride or 'rolling meeting', Saturday April 20, 2013, The first ride of the season will explore access into and out of the area around the new Costco Warehouse Club store located at 2441 Market Street NE. The ride will begin at 1:30pm, and start at the Union Station bike station , near First Street NE and Massachusetts Avenue NE. The ride will end at the NoMa-Gallaudet Metrorail Station. As always, we strongly recommend that you bring a helmet and reserve the right not to allow you on this ride without one. Please plan to arrive about 15 minutes before the ride begins, we will leave promptly at 1:30pm . Below is a tentative route map: View BAC FAC Ride #1 2013 (Costco) in a larger map This BAC-FAC ride highlights a void in the District's current bicycle network. Access to the Costco area, also called Fort Lincoln, by biking or walking is difficult for many reasons. The Anacostia R...

The April 2013 Legislative Committee Meeting will be this Wednesday, April 17th at 6:00pm at the patio at Busboys and Poets. If it rains, the meeting will move to Teaism. The agenda is pretty open with only two items:     1. DC Bicycle Plan update - According to the Sustainable DC plan, DDOT is updating the Bicycle Master Plan. We should talk about what we'd like to see in that and strategies for advising DDOT on it.   2. Future goals - It's been over a year, with new legislation already passed (defining bikes, Assault law, Bicycle Safety Act of 2013), since we last discussed a "State of DC Bike Legislation." I'd like us to discuss legislation we'd like to push for and legislative goals in general.  If you have questions, please feel free to contact the committee chair, David Cranor .  We look forward to seeing you there.