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NIH Bicycle Commuter Club

By Jenny Haliski

What if Washington, D.C.-area employers recognized and rewarded employees who commute by bike with tangible financial incentives that the cyclists, in turn, could spend to support local businesses? That

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FOX 5 MONEY: Bicycle Commuter Boom

Gas prices have jumped 35 cents in the last month but that doesn't matter to some commuters. They get to work by using a different kind of fuel, one generated by their own two feet. Fox 5 Money reporter Melanie Alnwick explains the boom in bicycle commuters.

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Rest in peace Robert B. Moore

Age 73 Social Security analyst marked retirement by biking cross-country.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen | Sun Reporter

Robert Bruce Moore, a retired Social Security analyst and avid bicyclist who during a three-month odyssey rode his bike from his Roland Park home to the Pacific Ocean, died May 16 of pancreatic cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 73.

Mr. Moore was born in Los Angeles and later moved with his family to Summit, N.J., where he graduated from high school in 1952.

After earning a bachelor's degree in political science from Rutgers University in 1958, he served in the Army Intelligence Corps for two years. He later earned a master's degree in business administration from George Washington University.

He worked as a buyer for a department store until moving to Baltimore in 1966, when he took a job at the Social Security Administration's headquarters in Woodlawn. He retired in 1999.

"He had played tennis and been a swimmer before taking up bicycling in the late 1980s," said his wife of 53 years, the former Nancy Hood.

Mr. Moore enthusiastically embraced bicycling and became president of the Baltimore Bicycling Club. A dedicated cycling organizer and activist, he served as a member of the state and city Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Boards.

As a retirement present to himself, Mr. Moore decided to ride his bike from Maryland to California. On April 30, 1999, Mr. Moore hopped aboard his 12-speed Specialized Expedition titanium-frame bike and pedaled away from his Longwood Road home on a journey across the American heartland.

Mr. Moore carried neither a cell phone nor camera. He hung clothes and camping supplies from saddlebags attached to his bike. He recorded his progress, not always daily, in brief ballpoint pen entries in two small breast pocket memo pads. In the first pad on the first page, he scrawled, "Bob Moore. 1999 Adventure Cycling's Trans-Am."

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East Coast Greenway MD Route Posted on Google Maps

The East Coast Greenway Alliance (bike trails Maine to Florida) has posted the newly designated Harford and Cecil counties trail routes on Googlemaps. Cyber-cycle the trails before you mount up and ride!

Dozens of cycling organizations, government agencies and cycling volunteers contributed to colorful segments from Delaware through Elkton, Northeast, Perryville, Havre de Grace and Bel Air, to the NCR trail in Monkton, and on to Charm City. (New cue sheets are coming soon.)

Go to <a href="http://www.greenway.org">www.greenway.org</a>; for the East Coast Greenway Alliance's website directory for Maryland trail developments and more.
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The winner for the stupidest bike lane in America goes to Silver Spring MD!

<a href="http://slatev.com/player.html?id=1504447505">http://slatev.com/player.html?id=1504447505</a>;

Some local commentary: <a href="http://www.finishthetrail.com/2008/04/were-1-were-1.html">http://www.finishthetrail.com/2008/04/were-1-were-1.html</a>;

And in case you missed the link in the article above, some history: <a href="http://home.comcast.net/~phyilla1/sstrails/cedar.html">http://home.comcast.net/~phyilla1/sstrails/cedar.html</a>;
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League Cycling Instructor Certification

The following is the info for the LCI course at Anne Arundel CC. However, you would have to complete the Road 1 test before taking this course.

BCY-501
League Cycling Instructor Cert
0 credit hours
2.1 ceu hours

League Cycling Instructor Certification Become certified to teach all League of American Bicyclists BikeEd courses. Discuss cycling skills and equipment. Learn and demonstrate basic teaching principles and techniques for various audiences. Discover how to organize and market BikeEd courses. CEUs awarded. $250 includes $183 supplies/lab fee. Prerequisite: BCY 500 and successful completion of pre-enrollment exam two weeks before the course. Contact the League at 202-822-1333 to take the exam. Note: Includes student manual. Bring your own bike to all class meetings and bring appropriate nighttime bike equipment and attire to Friday's class for an evening bike ride.
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Alert: Save the ICC Trail

Please tell Montgomery County not to discard half of the planned ICC bike trail! We need emails and letters urging the county Planning Board NOT to replace large sections of this paved trail with unsuitable detours along busy arterials. County planners are citing environmental concerns over the path, despite the six-lane ICC highway next-door! Even if you attended the recent public meetings, please send comments to:

Royce Hanson, Chairman
Montgomery County Planning Board
8787 Georgia Ave.
Silver Spring, MD 20910
MCP-chairman@mncppc-mc.org

Or send comments to Chuck Kines at the Planning Department at: Charles.Kines@mncppc-mc.org
You may also cc the County Council at: county.council@montgomerycountymd.gov


Background

The county Planning Department is studying possible alignments of the planned ICC trail and is now seeking public input. Unfortunately the department is defending the state's misguided plan to build the trail along only 7 miles of the 18-mile long ICC. That plan would replace the missing 60% with circuitous detours on unsuitable roads like New Hampshire Avenue and East Randolph Road. This would add miles of length, busy intersections and countless driveway crossings to the route. It would decimate a trail that was meant to be a spectacular facility and the east-west backbone of the paved trail network.

We expect the county to build the sections that the state isn't building, in accordance with the county master plan. That's what the current study was meant to examine. Instead the Planning Department is examining how to reroute the trail around park areas and onto major roadways. Even worse, the Planning Board has indicated it will remove the missing trail sections from the master plan, preventing them from ever being built.

So please contact the Planning Board (which heads the Planning Department) and ask it to save the full trail and reject the detours. Insist that none of the trail be removed from the master plan.

For information on the current ICC trail study, see: <a href="http://www.mcparkandplanning.org/Transportation/icc/icc_bike_path.shtm">http://www.mcparkandplanning.org/Transportation/icc/icc_bike_path.shtm</a>;

Jack Cochrane
Montgomery Bicycle Advocates
<a href="http://www.mobike.org">www.mobike.org</a>;
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Area Police Are Enforcing Pedestrian Safety Laws

[Note: This program reaches about 29% of the State's problem areas. If it were to include Baltimore City and County it would then include 74% of the State's problem areas. Note: If you live in PG or Mountgomry Co. be extra carful in March as everone is being targeted for tickets.]

Street Smart is an annual public education, awareness and behavioral change campaign in the Washington, DC, suburban Maryland and northern Virginia area. Since its beginning in 2002, the campaign has used radio, newspaper, and transit advertising, public awareness efforts, and added law enforcement, to respond to the challenges of pedestrian and bicyclist safety.

The Street Smart program emphasizes education of motorists and pedestrians through mass media. It is meant to complement, not replace, the efforts of state and local governments and agencies to build safer streets and sidewalks, enforce laws, and train better drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians.

The program is coordinated by the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB), and is supported by federal funds made available through state governments, and funding from some TPB member jurisdictions.

The Spring 2008 Street Smart campaign will run from March 7 to March 31st.

The kick off press event will take place on March 7, 2008 at 10 a.m., in the Baileys Crossing Shopping Center parking lot at Route 7 &amp; South Jefferson Street in Falls Church, VA. To find the site look for transit buses wrapped with Street Smart ads and campaign mobile billboard.

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