It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane, It’s d.

um, does anyone else think that’s a dumb and vague logo? “d.” by itself doesn’t clearly stand for anything specific. And even if “d.” clearly stood for the D.C.D.O.T., why put that department logo on all bike racks? Why not make it D.C. specific (e.g., “d.c.”), not D.C. governmental Agency specific?

Areed. At first glance I thought it stood for “D” Street! I was waiitng for H for my street.
Serioulsy, I hope the bike rack is lasting and the start of more to come; no matter what logo is on it.

hmm…we could certainly use some more bike racks. but even with a metal U-lock and a wire lock for my front tire i’m sure theives would get to my bike eventually. It’s good to park for a few hours during the day, but don’t trust your bike overnight. I’m careful and i’m on my 3rd bike in as many years.

It is sad, but true, that bicycle theft is a common thing in our neighborhood and DC in general. Reading the crime reports tells us that at anytime of the day, all kinds of people are walking around with bolt & wire cutters looking to steal bicycles. Be careful!

For a while now, I have secretly loved DDOT’s logo. How simple and elegant for a city government that is rarely either. It’s kind of random on this bike rack, though.

I also like the D-Dot logo. It’s very simple and modern. A DC specific logo (“d.c” or eagles, stars, half-smokes) would have been cheesy in my opinion.

THANK YOU D-DOT! Whatever the logo, we needed these bike racks.

I’m anonymous entry # 1. I admit that I kinda think it looks neat (simple and elegant are good descriotions), but I still think that the “d.” is too non-specific. “d.” is not an acronym for D.O.T. and doesn’t accurately describe or connote anything. If it did mean “D Street” and the racks with logos were accordingly street specific, then they’d pass as very cool in my book. As they are, though, I don’t approve.

I haven’t been by it myself but from the picture, it looks like this thing isn’t even bolted down. It better be heavier than lead or some thief is going to make off with a shiny new bike rack with a bevy of bikes attached to it.

just for the record the acronym is “d .(DOT)” as in District DOT

anon 7/20-4:10

you are correct. it is not bolted down so let’s hope it doesn’t sprout legs.

There is now another bike rack in front of the National Building Museum. And again, it too isn’t bolted down.

I believe that the bike racks have been installed temporarily for the Capital Fringe Festival. This one is next to the entrance to the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. And, no, it’s not bolted down (although I question the city’s ability to bolt a bike rack to a brick sidewalk) and it’s not so heavy that it can’t be moved. I moved it with another Woolly employee and it wasn’t that hard!