The hell of riding a bicycle for transportation in Alexandria, Va., a thread. Yesterday I took an afternoon ride from global Folsom HQ just south of Old Town Alexandria to Alexandria City's west side. We wanted to try Taqueria Picoso, the new place recently profiled by the Washington Post here:
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I’m a bike commuter. You can tell because I occasionally post dramatic pre-dawn pictures of myself riding to work, like this one from Tuesday, a well-timed moving shot from 3rd St. in Washington, DC as it turns from SW to NW. That’s the US Capitol in the background. I have been a hardcore, year-round bike commuter for almost a decade. I started coincident with a new job in 2009, and rode sporadically for two years. In 2010 I was involved in a one-bike crash and gave myself a grade 5 broken shoulder, a complete separation of the AC joint.

Ok hold up. Virginia's Democratic governor and legislative leadership are making some weird transportation proposals, and they all seem to be centered on the national resistance to raising the gas tax on drivers to anything close to what is actually needed to fund roads. The first is just insane (and remember, these are just proposals):

This week, The Washington Post published an interesting story, a follow-up to last week's 'the car is still king' story. This week's story: DC's drivers are bad, and more bad than cyclists, pedestrians, and scooterists. There is quite a bit to unpack here.
washingtonpost.com/local/traffica… First, the data. The story relies on data gathered in a Washington Post-Schar School poll conducted between 25 April and 2 May 2019. It was a telephone poll, >1500 adult respondents, 75% cell phone / 25% landline, localities polled, margin of error, etc.
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