Weekend Wrap-Up
Hi everyone. Â I’m going to keep it short today as I have quite a bit on my plate. Â Here’s a few pages on facebook I discovered recently which made me happy.
By now you’ve heard of the young woman who was struck by a car as she was biking on Cooper Street this weekend. Â I don’t have any information beyond what is in the linked article; if any of you have any information about her status, feel free to leave it in the comments. Â Here’s hoping she has a speedy recovery and that the driver who hit her is brought to justice.
This guy is awesome. Â I mean, he would complete pwn the next Tweed Ride.
We now have bike lanes on Chelsea Avenue! Â I was going to ride them this weekend but was busy doing other things. Â I’d love to hear about them in the comments.
Lastly, I missed this year’s Tour de Bird, mostly due to bad planning. Â I did see a few of the riders as I was heading home from downtown. Â It looked like a good crowd. Â You can read more about it here.
I got a comment/question on my “About” page from a reader who wants to bike from Memphis to New Orleans (hell yeah!) and is looking for more information about how to do that. Â (Scroll to the bottom to his his comment – his name is Ryan.) Â I really don’t have any information about how to do that, as cool as it sounds – please help out a fellow cyclist in the comments.
Alright Memphis, time to earn some $$$. Â Have a good week.
Thanks for this bike blog, Dr. Doug. I’m not very good at riding a bike so I don’t (for everyone’s safety), but I am so happy to know about all the fun and productive biking happenings in the city. If I ever do start commuting by bike, you’ll know it’s me by my training wheels.
Chelsea – I haven’t seen the finished lanes, but Chelsea was repaved early this spring and partially restriped with marks on the sides for bike lane location – I think finish striping was delayed by the flood as part of the road was under water for a while. I rode the length of the markings and the spacing seems adequate. I’m a little concerned about the details of all the new lanes going in because it is happening so fast – sometimes just a little attention to detail at intersections, etc. can really make the difference in the safety of a lane.
Ride to New Orleans: MRT – Mississippi River Trail, mississippirivertrail.org/index.html – It goes from Minneapolis to NOLA crossing the river at Memphis on the old bridge (a truly unique experience if you’ve never ridden across). I understand road marking is spotty and some of the routes may be sketchy, but someone has produced a guidebook for the route available on the MRT website.