Custis Trail Work – July 30 – August 24 – portions of trail closed

[streetsmarts]

@dasgeh 180213 wrote:

My map will give you a lower stress route. If you don’t mind it, just take the lane then bike lane westbound on Lee Hwy westbound (that’s what I do).

Got it. Thanks!

[Steve O]

Curiosity was just too much, so I checked it out.

Here’s the east end of the excavation. You can just see the Bridge to Nowhere towards the top right of the photo.
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Bridge to nowhere. Gives you a sense of how deep they are taking the foundation
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I was not the only one! Tire tracks. There is no way to get out at the west end, so these tracks were from a single bike rider who had to double back, like I did.
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[KWL]

@Steve O 180275 wrote:

…I was not the only one! Tire tracks…

So there is at least one other person out there as crazy as Steve O.

[huskerdont]

You don’t *have* to double back. The bridge to nowhere kind of goes somewhere* if you’re willing to treat your bike like a mountain bike.

*Not really. I wouldn’t recommend it in general, but this is SteveO here. I haven’t ridden back there in years, pre my Strava days. But if I was crazy enough to do it….

[dbb]

@huskerdont 180284 wrote:

The bridge to nowhere kind of goes somewhere

This is sounding a lot like a question on the SAT.

[Steve O]

@huskerdont 180284 wrote:

You don’t *have* to double back. The bridge to nowhere kind of goes somewhere* if you’re willing to treat your bike like a mountain bike.

Well, yes, but the somewhere it goes is back the way you came anyway.

Because this:

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Otherwise, that would have been an interesting option.

[huskerdont]

@Steve O 180295 wrote:

Well, yes, but the somewhere it goes is back the way you came anyway.

Because this:

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Otherwise, that would have been an interesting option.

I saw they had put that stupid fence up in one of our downpours when I went down to check out Spout Run flooding. That wasn’t there the last time I went, which was back in the 90s. Annoying that they closed this access to the trail/woods, but I suppose they did it to keep people from 1) drowning, partying under the bridge, III) having any damn fun at all.

Anyway, being a good rebel, I climbed over, tearing some shorts but not any skin.

I have also gone down and over Spout Run and Spout Run Parkway and over to Lorcom. I think there’s a trail that goes east with some limited, unofficial access to the neighborhoods over by the Palisades, but it was a long time ago, my memory is fuzzy, and they may have shut down whatever access there was.

[Steve O]

@huskerdont 180303 wrote:

I saw they had put that stupid fence up in one of our downpours when I went down to check out Spout Run flooding. That wasn’t there the last time I went, which was back in the 90s. Annoying that they closed this access to the trail/woods, but I suppose they did it to keep people from 1) drowning, partying under the bridge, III) having any damn fun at all.

Anyway, being a good rebel, I climbed over, tearing some shorts but not any skin.

I have also gone down and over Spout Run and Spout Run Parkway and over to Lorcom. I think there’s a trail that goes east with some limited, unofficial access to the neighborhoods over by the Palisades, but it was a long time ago, my memory is fuzzy, and they may have shut down whatever access there was.

And once upon a time there was actually a bridge over Spout Run Parkway that connected Woodmont with what we might call North Courthouse now. About 15 years ago the county proposed putting a pretty cool ped/bike bridge in the same place (a fantastic idea, IMO, giving the Woodmont neighborhood walking access Courthouse), but the neighborhood civic association did not want the riff-raff cyclists the bridge would attract and the proposal was killed.
Yes, you can still take the B. to NW walking paths over to 21st Ct. N.

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[huskerdont]

I did not know that. That would have been awesome, but they’re right about the riff-raff cyclists; I would have used that as a route home fairly often for variety.

[dasgeh]

If only someone were drafting a plan of what bike facilities should be built in Arlington…

[mstone]

@dasgeh 180343 wrote:

If only someone were drafting a plan of what bike facilities should be built in Arlington…

…they could fill it out entirely from what made neighborhood associations lose their shit and defeat because politics?

[ursus]

Does anyone know if the work is on schedule to finish by the end of the week?

[huskerdont]

@ursus 180440 wrote:

Does anyone know if the work is on schedule to finish by the end of the week?

Perhaps someone with inside knowledge might still reply, but until then, I saw this morning that they had paved the west side of the project, and on the east side, crews were getting paving equipment together when I went through about 6:30.

[Erin Potter]

@huskerdont 180455 wrote:

Perhaps someone with inside knowledge might still reply, but until then, I saw this morning that they had paved the west side of the project, and on the east side, crews were getting paving equipment together when I went through about 6:30.

I have received no update, but emailed this AM. This is solid intel from the field though that gives me hope!

[Erin Potter]

@Erin Potter 180457 wrote:

I have received no update, but emailed this AM. This is solid intel from the field though that gives me hope!

Update: Construction manager is confident this work will be wrapped up on time, despite rains. A mogul-free Custis is in our collective futures!

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