Intersection of Doom story

[Steve O]

@dasgeh 86518 wrote:

What are you expecting, exactly? What is the next step?

My understanding is that for anything to get done by the County, the County has to allocate money. Step one, put it in the CIP. You seem to think there’s another Step One; that there’s some magic wand that will GET IT FIXED NOW. I would love for that to be the case, but I have no idea what that looks like, what we could ask for.

Whether the means are videos, online petition, constant attendance at County Board meetings, civil disobedience, being dicks to motorists within the law, or all of the above, let’s be clear on what our ends are. Otherwise, it’s a BFWT. We’ll get County Board members up on the dais saying “Yep, we should fix that” without more.

As far as “works”, I see the Realize Rosslyn language as a win, because we asked for something specific, and we got almost exactly what we asked for. Let’s figure out what the next specific thing we can ask for is, and ask for that. I think it’s money in the CIP.

Major changes would require inclusion in the CIP. Moving the poles might just be some sort of line item or possible with year-end money or the like.
The hoped-for effect of Dismount Mondays would be to have the process sped up. Instead of getting something put in the CIP in 2018, it would happen now. Instead of waiting, waiting for the “Esplanade” project to eventually get under way, it would get bumped up the priority list.
Etc.

The idea would be to accelerate action. So I don’t disagree with the point that money will need to be allocated, yes. But I’m dubious that it will get allocated–ever–unless we apply new and different pressure than we have in the past.

[baiskeli]

@kcb203 86544 wrote:

Just up the hill where there are green/yellow/red lights for bikes on the Custis trail along with Walk/Don’t Walk signs, the light remains green for the cyclist all the way through the flashing don’t walk, and only turns yellow and then red after the pedestrian light is steady red “Don’t Walk.” I never enter the Intersection of Doom on a flashing red, but I understand the confusion given that just 100 yards away, the signals clearly tell bikes they can enter until the don’t walk becomes solid red. I understand why they think that would apply, if not everywhere, at least at the next light on the path.

That’s why I think a simple solution would be to install a green-yellow-red bike light at the I of D too. Not that it would solve the problems of the intersection.

[chris_s]

Hey guys, I’m pursuing signal changes at the Intersection of Doom and could really use some video of the intersection at rush hour. I don’t actually bike through here regularly.

To be really useful, we need to be able to see both the pedestrian light for crossing Lynn and the traffic signal for I-66 off-ramp traffic simultaneously. Ideally it would capture a full light cycle (so for instance from the moment that it turns Green for I-66 all the way around until it turns green for I-66 again. Bonus points if barely any I-66 cars get through due to all of the trail traffic. Can anybody help me out? Would prefer to have it in my hot little hands by Sunday Morning so it could be capture Thursday rush or Friday rush.

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