If you've biked across U Street at 16th Street lately, or along the 15th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue cycletracks, you might have been stopped by someone who handed you a postcard with a link to a survey site about what it's like to use the new contraflow lanes that sometimes take a while to figure [...]

Ray LaHood—or whoever writes Ray LaHood's official blog Fast Lane—loves Union Station's spiffy, new bike station.
The U.S. Secretary of Transportation says the new facility is "a model example of the kind of sustainable mobility President Obama's Livable Communities initiative seeks."
The bike station, which was in the works for ages, finally opened up last Friday. It [...]

As I may or may not have whined about in the past, urban biking freaks me out.
I do timidly pedal around on occasion. But I lack the bravery and well-honed sense of when to break the rules that others possess. (See Mike DeBonis's "Cyclists: How to Be a Sensible Scofflaw")