January 2019 – Road and Trail Conditions

[consularrider]

The gates at East Potomac Park/Hains Point loop at the golf course are closed (both for the shutdown and for high water)and there is yellow “crime scene” tape stretched from the goes to the waterside railing and also over to the parking lot fence. Clearly people have been going under the tape, but there was a Parks Police marked cruiser behind me and who stopped and watched me as I was taking the picture. I guessed the officer might have told me not to ride on if I tried to go under the tape, so I just looped back up Ohio Drive.

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[Judd]

@semperiden 185290 wrote:

I got a response from Mr. Wahdan that he contacted the contractor and that they said they will pick up the dumpster tomorrow. Also on an update to the sewer line:

Monday we are scheduled to start relining the sewer pipe in that location which is a continuous 4 to 5 day process ( weather permitting). the sidewalk will be closed at that location And the closest traffic lane will be closed. This is the last phase of the sewer line project. immediately after we will start removing the big black pipe which hopefully should take us about 3 to 3 1/2 weeks.

Dumpster was moved when I rode by this morning.

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[Greenbelt]

Greenbelt plowed the connector path on the commuter route from Old Greenbelt up toward Ivy Lane and Metro station and College Park area. Kudus for getting on it day 1.
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[mikoglaces]

Is the Custis cleared, and the W&OD between Custis and East Falls Church

[dkel]

I was driving down Shreve Rd and saw the blower working the W&OD going west. It looked like the trail was pretty clear east of there going into Falls Church City.

[streetsmarts]

@mikoglaces 185757 wrote:

Is the Custis cleared, and the W&OD between Custis and East Falls Church

Was just gonna post this:
Custis entrance at N Wakefield is apparently blocked…by the snow from the team clearing the trail I think.

Monica on Facebook Women & Bicycles said :
“Arlington peeps. Looks like DES plowed snow and blocked the trail entrance. And parksand rec didn’t salt or plow this section of the custis. How am I supposed to get to work tomorrow??!! (rhetorical) I could shovel the trail but I’m not sure about the mess the plows left behind.”

She said she tweeted at various Arlington agencies but heard nothing. Any ideas? Besides clearing it herself?

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[cvcalhoun]

Montgomery County did a gorgeous job plowing its section of the CCT. Of course, with the National Park Service closed, the DC section is completely impassable.

[LhasaCM]

The MBT is in pretty good shape from Franklin to R, decent shape (at least one side passable) from R to NY Avenue, and an utter disaster from M to Florida.

[Emm]

Mix of conditions out by where I live near Shirlington. Sorry for the sideways pictures–the forum is rotating my images for some reason.

My neighborhood in Alexandria is great, and so are main roads from what I can tell, but Arlandria/N. Del Ray has some pretty sketchy neighborhood roads still. Mt. Vernon Ave sidewalk between 4 mile run park and 4 mile run trail is covered in ice and slush. It’s probably not rideable based on the theory if you fall you’ll go right into traffic. I walked my bike along that section. The trail through Four Mile Run park is plowed and in great condition.
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4mrt between Mt. Vernon Ave and where it runs along Glebe is great. Once you get to Glebe though it’s almost impassable on bike. It looks like the road crews plowed the snow up onto the trail. I forgot to take a picture sadly since I was busy walking my bike across it (and even that took some effort). It becomes a little better (and rideable, if you go slow) after it turns away from Glebe. The little bridge the construction crews made has about a foot of snow on it. The trail is on and off covered in snow, ice, and who-knows what until 395. My concern is that by morning, the slush which is currently rideable is going to turn into very un-ridable ice. Then it clears up and becomes nice again.

Under glebe is a HUGE puddle, which may turn into some nasty ice tonight.
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The bridge from Shirlington to Alexandria is pretty sketchy on the up and down, but SO MUCH FUN to ride across.
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[sjclaeys]

@streetsmarts 185764 wrote:

Was just gonna post this:
Custis entrance at N Wakefield is apparently blocked…by the snow from the team clearing the trail I think.

Monica on Facebook Women & Bicycles said :
“Arlington peeps. Looks like DES plowed snow and blocked the trail entrance. And parksand rec didn’t salt or plow this section of the custis. How am I supposed to get to work tomorrow??!! (rhetorical) I could shovel the trail but I’m not sure about the mess the plows left behind.”

She said she tweeted at various Arlington agencies but heard nothing. Any ideas? Besides clearing it herself?

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Explosives?

[ursus]

Snow-clearing update: Crews currently working the east side of the trail, with one blower having cleared Falls Church east to MM 0, and another Smiths Switch Rd in Ashburn east to Reston. The east-most blower is now headed west to meet up with the blower passing through Reston.

https://twitter.com/WODTrail/status/1084862501429350401

update https://twitter.com/WODTrail/status/1084927948476608512
It’s the end of the workday and the trail from MM 0 in Shirlington, east to Smiths Switch Rd in Ashburn, has been blown. Tomorrow, the west side…

[KWL]

@Emm 185770 wrote:

…Sorry for the sideways pictures–the forum is rotating my images for some reason. …

I’ve found the Forum rotates portrait mode images to landscape. Rotating the original before uploading doesn’t help. Some nefarious scheme to get us to snap photos in landscape only?

[KWL]

I took the Mt. Vernon Trail to Josephine’s Shovel Fest on the Pugsley with studded 4.0 tires. The trail is not in good condition. There was one skinny tire track I followed, but it was mostly semi-frozen footprints. My hat is off to whoever laid down those tracks.

Arlington cleared the 4MR trail up to the MVT, made a little loop and then went home. Alexandria cleared the Wayne F. Anderson trail and went across the Rt. 1 bridge before stopping. The ramp down the Arlington side from the Rt. 1 bridge was not cleared. I remember when Arlington once ran their equipment up that ramp. Why did that stop?

I am so glad I am no longer commuting on the MVT.

[KWL]

While Alexandria cleared the sidewalk on the Rt. 1 bridge, the ramp down from RT1 was not cleared. The zig-zag trail was not cleared.

[LeprosyStudyGroup]

That sidewalk on rt1 and ramp down to the hairpin was cleared when I passed it an hour ago, made me happy.

Uless I was just hallucinating, also possible.

[KWL]

@LeprosyStudyGroup 185783 wrote:

That sidewalk on rt1 and ramp down to the hairpin was cleared when I passed it an hour ago, made me happy.

Uless I was just hallucinating, also possible.

Well, there were a few gremlins out shoveling snow today. That ramp photo was from around 12:45pm today.

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