Alternate Routes to Maine Ave?

[Steve]

This thread might have some good info for you: link.

Your best way to change or avoid that is probably to take the Case Bridge over the Waterfront. The bridge starts along the little road half way up Buckeye Dr (in Hains Point) behind the NPS HQ. It drops you at the North corner of 9th and Maine. From there you can cross 9th and go up to G, or take Maine for a block. I know you don’t like Maine, but from there at least you are entering it with a lower flow of traffic, not along Maine, and so going one block with only a few cars isn’t that bad. Anyways, hope that helps. Other options would be to take go up Ohio and then ride along the mall up to 4th, and ride that down to I St (or take Memorial Bridge if you are coming from the North on MVT.

[JerseyVol]

Steve,

Thanks so much, that is a surprisingly simple change that I will try tonight on my ride home. I never knew how to get to that path on the bridge and it looks easy enough. I’ll also go back and read that thread. Thanks for the help!

[KLizotte]

My daily commute to Independence Ave is shown below. I don’t go to the Navy Yard on a daily basis but when I have to go to DOT, upon leaving the L’Enfant circle area I take either 9th, Maine, 7th, I Street, or G Street, 3rd, I Street. You can then take 1st St to get to the Navy Yard. I avoid M and Maine like the plague.

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[Brendan von Buckingham]

When counterflowing on the Maine Avenue sidewalk, please be careful at this blind corner under 14th Street Bridge. http://tinyurl.com/mlwrckk. Last evening I came across the aftermath of a head-on collision between two cyclists. They were already being taken care of by a crowd of pedestrians but according to witnesses one of the cyclists was going too fast.

[lordofthemark]

@Brendan von Buckingham 96980 wrote:

When counterflowing on the Maine Avenue sidewalk, please be careful at this blind corner under 14th Street Bridge. http://tinyurl.com/mlwrckk. Last evening I came across the aftermath of a head-on collision between two cyclists. They were already being taken care of by a crowd of pedestrians but according to witnesses one of the cyclists was going too fast.

That curve always scares me a bit – it has motivated me to ring my bell a lot, and to go slowly. So far I have been lucky.

As to Maine, I have managed to put up with the pedestrians on the north sidewalk between 9th and 7th. The sidewalk west of the fish market is relatively wide, mostly. I have once gone in the lanes on Maine from 9th to 7th, and probably will again if my speed and confidence get better before any alternatives appear (which seems likely) but I am not at all tempted to use the general travel lanes on Maine west of 9th.

I will be away on vacation for a week and half, and did not ride to work this week ;( Is it too much to hope that things will be looking better in the Wharf area by the end of October?

[creadinger]

I destroyed a 10-month old rim the other day by hitting a pothole along that mucked up section of Maine Ave. The construction has absolutely killed any sense of a safe or fun ride in that area. It completely, absolutely sucks.

[Brendan von Buckingham]

@lordofthemark 96985 wrote:

Is it too much to hope that things will be looking better in the Wharf area by the end of October?

Yes, too much to hope for. Three more years if they stay on schedule. Started in March 2014. Right now we’re in the middle of Item #4: Utility relocation work in Maine Avenue. Coming up soon is #6: Permanent closure of Water Street from Fish Market to 7th. Then it’s the Parade of Dumptrucks as they excavate foundations for the next 12 months.

Check out the spreadsheet in the middle of this artcle: http://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/construction_to_start_on_the_wharf_in_march/8112

[lordofthemark]

@Brendan von Buckingham 97079 wrote:

Yes, too much to hope for. Three more years if they stay on schedule. Started in March 2014. Right now we’re in the middle of Item #4: Utility relocation work in Maine Avenue. Coming up soon is #6: Permanent closure of Water Street from Fish Market to 7th. Then it’s the Parade of Dumptrucks as they excavate foundations for the next 12 months.

Check out the spreadsheet in the middle of this artcle: http://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/construction_to_start_on_the_wharf_in_march/8112

Well I do hope they restore the sidewalk on the south side of Maine west of 9th before they close the stub of Water from 9th to the fish market (and the fish market parking lot.) Even a bit better would be restoring the sidewalk on the south side of Maine between 9th and 7th. What I really want to know, that is not in the chart, is when the promised Maine Avenue cycle track opens. But I guess that is in fact a DDOT project only indirectly tied to the Wharf and not something to be delivered by Hoffman? I was hoping it will deliver before 2017, but now I am wondering.

[rcannon100]

@Brendan von Buckingham 97079 wrote:

Yes, too much to hope for. Three more years if they stay on schedule.

Right in time for the Friday Coffee Club’s lease to expire and we move off to new digs. yay.

[Steve O]

@creadinger 97031 wrote:

I destroyed a 10-month old rim the other day by hitting a pothole along that mucked up section of Maine Ave. The construction has absolutely killed any sense of a safe or fun ride in that area. It completely, absolutely sucks.

Yeah, but at least you didn’t end up looking like this.

[creadinger]

@Steve O 97107 wrote:

Yeah, but at least you didn’t end up looking like this.

Ugh… yeah. I am thankful for that. Sorry you took a spill.

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