Friday, May 3, 2013
Events Saturday at VPC and Sunday at Marshall Road encourage safe riding, teach core bike skills.
Ahead of National Bike to School Day and Vienna's Bike/Walk challenge, two bike rodeos are coming to town to make sure kids know how to stay safe on the road. On Saturday, the Vienna Bicycle Advisory Committee (BAC) and Vienna Police Department will host the 2nd Annual W&OD Safety and Bike Rodeo. The event is scheduled for from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Vienna Presbyterian Church. Vienna police officers will help kids ages four and up learn all of the core skills to riding a bike, including braking, balancing and handling obstacles. Children will also learn basic rules of the road so that they can safely ride in their own neighborhoods. Representatives from Safe Kids USA will also be on site to give free bicycle helmets to the first 200 …
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Transportation Safety Commission says alerting cyclists to routes is crucial as Tysons develops
The Vienna Town Council approved a series of signage Monday that will more clearly direct cyclists to six bike routes in town, a move officials hope will better facilitate travel between the town and Tysons — and, with luck, take the cars they would have used off the road in the process. The town approved its first official bike route on Courthouse Road last April, marking it with signs from the town boundary — the dog park west of Nutley Street — to the intersection of Locust and Center Streets. The six routes that earned signage at Monday night's meeting are already marked on regional bicycling maps, and have been since 2008, Transportation Safety Commission chair Sharon Baum said. The TSC and the town's Bicyle Advisory Committee …
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Bike Advisory Committee will present some findings Thursday to the Board of Architectural Review
Vienna residents are ready for more bike routes in town – now, it's just a matter of putting infrastructure in place to support them, says a survey conducted this summer by the Vienna Bicycle Advisory Committee. “We are trying to make the Town of Vienna a more bike-friendly community,” said Cristina Janoski, co-chair of the Vienna BAC. “Ninety-five percent of the people that responded to this survey basically said that it is either important or very important that the Town of Vienna add more bike routes.” The 12-question survey was distributed online and answered by more than 350 Vienna residents, business owners and employees. More bike routes would provide more environmentally friendly ways for people to travel in Vienna, Janoski said, …
Amelie Krikorian
10:00 pm on Wednesday, June 20, 2012
If a single biker is holding up a dozen people, the biker ought to pull safely over and allow the faster cars to pass him. If you can only go 10-15 mph in a 25 or 35 mph zone, you are going to impede a lot of traffic. It's hubris to say that a biker has the right to hold up that many people. It's true bike lanes on roads can get debris on them (on Old Courthouse someone had piled yard waste in … more ›