Crystal City Thoughts

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At the last ABAC meeting, held in Crystal City, the Crystal City BID presented about the Sector Plan and thoughts on bike connections.

I was thinking about the challenge of the east-west bike connections. Then I read the piece about the mayor of Bogota and his idea to reserve every other street for buses and bikes, which got me thinking:

Why not just restricted 12th St and maybe 18th St for buses and bikes? Or make them REALLY ANNOYING for cars, like they do in London?

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@Steve 90799 wrote:

Can anyone explain to me the low height of the guard rail on the TR Bridge sidepath? I ride my bike a lot, and nearly always feel comfortable on it, but I refuse to ride into the city on that path. It just freaks me out too much.

To weed out the brave from the weak?

Seriously, though, this bridge is the best part of my commute if there’s nobody else on it (oh, the views!) and the worst part if there are other people. They could have put a useful height barrier on the road bed (instead of on the raised trail bed) and made everyone safer.

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