Arlington, you suck….

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  • January 12, 2011 at 11:22 am #909696
    CCrew
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    At clearing bike lanes! Came in via Fairfax this morning because I thought it would be clearer and it was in worse shape than the Custis trail.

    They’re not bike lanes, they’re:
    A) Where we push the snow to from the “real” lanes
    B) We call them the “watch you slip and kill yourself in the real traffic lanes”
    C) “They’re not bike lanes, they’re there for the convenience of parked cars so they have a place to throw their snow”

    FYI, DC’s were cleared and salted. Yours sucked. Grrrr.:mad:

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  • January 12, 2011 at 3:52 pm #924520
    Tim Kelley
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    Thanks for sharing–I’m going to pass your thoughts along.

    January 12, 2011 at 4:01 pm #924521
    PrintError
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    Fairfax didn’t do any better. I was entirely without shoulders to ride on this morning, putting me directly in the lane on my 4 mile stretch of 123. Doesn’t bother me, but the panic-attack going on behind me was worse than usual.

    January 12, 2011 at 4:07 pm #924522
    Tim Kelley
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    I just heard back form our engineer guys,

    “These days the County is relying on a web based feedback system to find out where the problems are. Folks should know about this link: http://egov.arlingtonva.us/snowrequest

    It brings you to an on line form that goes directly to the snow operations team. Much more useful than the old game of telephone and email hot potato that we used to rely on.”

    Cool!

    January 13, 2011 at 1:34 pm #924259
    CCrew
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    Thanks Tim. I’ll freely admit that I was more than a bit perturbed yesterday morning (as my OP reflects). One would have thought that by bailing off the trail to the streets where there are designated bike lanes the riding would have been safer, and that clearly wasn’t the case.

    January 13, 2011 at 1:54 pm #923114
    Tim Kelley
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    Bike lanes from Ballston to Rosslyn were much improved and now almost 100% clear the entire way. I submitted a request to the form yesterday, but I would guess that warmer temps probably did more in the past 24 hours than any human efforts…

    January 13, 2011 at 2:25 pm #924540
    Mark Blacknell
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    We shouldn’t have to make requests to have the bike lanes on the streets properly cleared. *Especially* along a corridor route like Fairfax Drive. So, Tim, can you ask whether Arlington County’s snow clearance position is that they don’t do bike lanes unless asked? Thanks.

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