Edgar Gil is biking (on his Klein bike) from Arlington to DC this morning, like he does most days. So what's different? Today he's riding with sophisticated mobile pollution monitoring devices part of the Health and Environment Action Network, a project of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, in order to raise awareness about environmental health concerns.

This YouTube video about his ride is a must see!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKk3gw5Qjzc

Singing Senator Trent Lott has tried Metro for the first time in his life.

Don't forget that for the ultimate in point to point transportation you can bring your bike on the Metro. Increased train capacity at peak times is needed to meet demand. This is America. We don't ration things in America. So why is Metro rationing capacity to bicyclists. Why ration things that are beneficial to society and allow unlimited pork-barrel funded free use of things that are harmful to society. Instead of banning bicycles at peak times, ban cars from the roads at peak times.

http://carFreeusa.blogspot.com/

Brutal weather in which to ride your bike to work.

No kidding, Arlington. If anything, a day like this lets you see how serious a given individual is about cycling.

And the great thing about biking to work is that traffic laws don't apply to you!

Brutal weather? It's barely drizzling and the temperature is balmy. It reminded me of the rainy season in the south of France.
I've been biking to work since 1992 and have experienced real brutal weather. But it was never brutal enough to get me thinking about buying an auto. It's the trade-off for the financial, ecological and good-citizenship benefits of the car-free life. When it rains, you can put on a "wetsuit," and a baseball cap keeps the rain out of your eyes. The list of bikewear/office wear innovations will be endless, once enough people start thinking about it.

Brutal weather? Are you kidding me?

And bicycles are banned because they make it impossible to enter and exit rush hour trains. If you don't like it, move closer to work.

"brutal weather" must be written by one of those assclowns that opens up inside the Metro station and never realize that it isn't actually raining

"And the great thing about biking to work is that traffic laws don't apply to you!"

Really? I dare you to ride in front of me if you have a red light and I have a green. You might make an interesting-looking pancake.

Drivers break the law more often (on both a per mile and per minute basis) than cyclists. That's a fact.

Bikes could be allowed on rush hour trains that aren't full (opposite commutes). But Metro has basically said their employees are too stupid to distinguish.

The problem with Metro's ban is that they don't ban all large and unwieldy objects, just bicycles.

So strollers are OK, as are large parcels and bags. If you put a bike in a cardboard box you'd be allowed to bring it on. Or, as this picture demonstrates, even a washing machine:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pfctdayelise/2208001110/

Thanks Dr. Gridlock for not being too condescending to area bike commuters. But I am curious: Do you really have a PhD in Gridlockology? Didn't they teach you anything about mode share in your arduous curriculum? Isn't the best cure for gridlock to reduce the area that a single commuter displaces on the road? It just seems a little odd that your main interest in the event is to warn motorists of possible added disruptions to their daily slog. But perhaps I am reading too much into your title. If you are just a quack, nevermind.

anakcu, the best cure for gridlock is to execute violators of traffic laws

But then we wouldn't have anyone left!

Those tree-hugging, world-caring, environmentalist, forward-looking, healthy, SOBs. They have the nerve to ride their bikes on a day when the president is begging for more oil. They should be ashamed. Treasonous! :)

kill 'em all, that is the true environmentalist position, if there is no one left the cancer on the planet will be gone

Is this why so many workers reeked of BO?

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