{"id":2025,"date":"2008-12-17T22:01:47","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T02:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2025"},"modified":"2008-12-18T13:26:42","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T17:26:42","slug":"wtf-is-wrong-with-smartbike-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/12\/17\/wtf-is-wrong-with-smartbike-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"WTF is Wrong With SmartBike DC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an email I just received:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>    Dear SmartBike User:<\/p>\n<p>    Due to the presidential inaugural events on January 20, SmartBike service at some stations will not be available for the period of January 16 through January 22.  The following stations will be closed:<\/p>\n<p>    Foggy Bottom<\/p>\n<p>    Farragut Square<\/p>\n<p>    McPherson Square<\/p>\n<p>    Metro Center<\/p>\n<p>    Gallery Place<\/p>\n<p>    Judiciary Square<\/p>\n<p>    Please visit www.smartbikedc.com for further updates.<\/p>\n<p>    We thank you for your understanding and appreciate your cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>    Your SmartBike DC Team\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, you really don&#8217;t have my understanding.\u00c2\u00a0 What in the world requires you to shut down operations for an entire week?\u00c2\u00a0 Inauguration Day would be lame enough, but the whole week?\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;d have called and\/or emailed to ask Smartbike about this before I posted, but given that they&#8217;ve ignored my previous calls and emails, I thought I&#8217;d just not waste the time.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a shame that such a valuable operation is so poorly run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><strong>Update<\/strong>: As usual, Washcycle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewashcycle.com\/2008\/12\/more-on-the-inauguration-bike-valet.html\">has some useful information<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Looks like WABA is working to secure permission to run a bike valet service come inauguration day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an email I just received: Dear SmartBike User: Due to the presidential inaugural events on January 20, SmartBike service at some stations will not be available for the period of January 16 through January 22. The following stations will be closed: Foggy Bottom Farragut Square McPherson Square Metro Center Gallery Place Judiciary Square Please [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-dc","category-policy","category-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2025"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2029,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions\/2029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}