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[Boomer Cycles]

St Michaels Nature Trail in its namesake city, Talbott County MD

A rails-to-trails project, for more info see https://www.traillink.com/trail/st-michaels-nature-trail/

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[Boomer Cycles]

Like [mention]consularrider [/mention] and [mention]Serdar [/mention] I rode today over the newly inaugurated W&OD bridge over Lee Highway in Arlington/Falls Church VA. Here is the Arlington Now news blurb on it, which includes the official VDOT press release re it’s grand opening on Friday, March 12th:

“The new W&OD Trail bridge over Lee Highway in East Falls Church is now open.”

“VDOT announced the opening of the $6 million bridge Friday morning, touting “a safer, faster crossing over busy Route 29.” Previously, trail users would have to wait to cross Lee Highway at a crowded intersection, next to ramps to and from I-66 and Washington Blvd.”

https://www.arlnow.com/2021/03/12/new-wod-trail-bridge-in-east-falls-church-opening-today/
Eastbound view

Westbound view

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[Boomer Cycles]

New2me bike Fix-it station at W&OD mile marker 5.0 in Benjamin Banneker Park near the East Falls Church Metro Station (where you cross under the N. Roosevelt Ave bridge)

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[consularrider]

#BikeInfrastructure from today’s ride: East Falls Church Metro Station, which once had the highest bike-to-Metro usage. Today there were three bikes in the multiple racks under I-66, two Cabis in the docks, both ebikes, and one bike in the new fancy-schmancy-long delayed bike facility. I understand that EFC is one of the stations WMATA is proposing to close. This would take me from having a bike-friendly station 0.6 miles from our house to having to go to the less than bike-friendly (high theft, crappy parking, but on a bike route) Ballston Station, two miles away. One an easy walk, the other not.

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[Dewey]

@consularrider 209927 wrote:

I understand that EFC is one of the stations WMATA is proposing to close.

WMATA receives $1.4 billion under the American Recovery Act so should not need to enact the drastic service cuts proposed.

[Dewey]

@consularrider 209927 wrote:

I understand that EFC is one of the stations WMATA is proposing to close.

WMATA receives $1.4 billion under the American Rescue Plan Act so should not need to enact the drastic service cuts proposed.

[consularrider]

I could tell it’s been a long while since I rode up the Capital Crescent Trail, but I didn’t it had been that long. The Neal Potter Plaza was dedicated on 11/03/2018 at mm 4.5 near the River Road overpass. I really don’t remember seeing it before.

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[Sophie CW]

#BikeInfrastructure – The Carl Henn Millennium Trail is the 10.8-mile bike beltway around Rockville. https://www.rockvillemd.gov/DocumentCenter/View/548/Bike-Map-2015?bidId=
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[Sophie CW]

#BikeInfrastructure – The Carl Henn Millennium Trail is the 10.8-mile bike beltway around Rockville. https://www.rockvillemd.gov/DocumentCenter/View/548/Bike-Map-2015?bidId=
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[Boomer Cycles]

@Sophie CW 210177 wrote:

#BikeInfrastructure – The Carl Henn Millennium Trail is the 10.8-mile bike beltway around Rockville. https://www.rockvillemd.gov/DocumentCenter/View/548/Bike-Map-2015?bidId=

I know @CarlHenn!!!

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