2-Wk Custis Trail Detour, Aug 24-Sep 6

@Steve O 202308 wrote:

I’ll have to check it out, but I think a circle seems like a round peg in a slightly ovalized hole or something.

I can imagine something that functions like the circle but is not shaped like it, more like an elongated triangle. What the designers missed was that 90%+ of the traffic is the Custis and only a small fraction will use the south-side detour route. That’s just a neighborhood connector, really.

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A traffic circle has also been proposed numerous times for the junction of Four Mile Run Trail and the Mount Vernon Trail. Can you draw a picture of how you would do that one?

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@DanB 202319 wrote:

When you see the incredible number of bridges being built along I-66, it couldn’t be that hard to get a flyover built for the northbound lane of the MVT. Could it? [emoji848]

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I don’t want to encourage people to call for tolls on the MVT to pay for it. [emoji1787]

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@dbb 202305 wrote:

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Here is a shot from Friday morning. This is the uphill exit from the circle and evidence of folks cutting the corner (I’m of the position that these are inadvertent).

Not sure any cyclists were consulted in the design. If Arlington only had some group that would offer advice on such matters. Maybe they could call it a Bicycle Advisory Group, or something like that.

I agree that they are likely inadvertent. I have nearly had to do that every time I passed through so far. It is getting better and I start to brake earlier, but it is not at all a natural turn. They need a bit more asphalt there and in the equivalent location in the other direction.

@consularrider 202273 wrote:

There’s been the W&OD mm0 traffic circle forever, hardly anyone follows traffic circle etiquette there.

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There is also one at the other end in Purcellville which is easy not to notice.