June 2019 – Road and Trail Conditions

[bentbike33]

@ShawnoftheDread 191569 wrote:

Yes, the sidewalk in front of FS Key Park as you come off the bridge. The one that’s already too narrow for for foot and bike traffic.

Maybe we can get them to explain why they don’t think it’s a good idea to put signs warning of sidewalk or bike lane closures in the general travel lanes, and then ask why that logic does not work the other way around.

[dasgeh]

@ShawnoftheDread 191562 wrote:

So the Key Bridge inbound route is nearly blocked by a huge sign announcing a future road closure, and the TR Bridge route is nearly blocked by downed foliage. Heckava job, DDOT.

I can confirm the TR Bridge blockage has been removed.

[n18]

RT7 detour in Falls Church, between West Falls Church Metro and Tysons Corner(See this Google map). West bound traffic is blocked, and detoured through the parking lot where Trader’s Joe is, which makes it very difficult to use the already hard to use sidewalks there, so use the eastbound side before that. It’s unlikely that they will fix it by evening rush hour.

https://wjla.com/news/local/large-water-main-break-blocks-lanes-in-va

[consularrider]

Hains Point/East Potomac Park gates are closed. They were starting to set up for the fireworks on Tuesday.

[huskerdont]

I joke all the time about the “orange cones that fix anything” mentality we have toward infrastructure problems, but now that we’re a third-world country, we can’t even afford those. A sinkhole is forming on the trail above Chain Bridge, and this is the warning system currently in place:

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ETA that I reported it to Arlington Dept of etc. and so on.

[bentbike33]

Hey, FOMVT!

At the curve north of the Humpback Bridge, the big pine tree has a large branch slowly descending onto the trail. Even I had to maneuver creatively to get under it this morning, so you know it’s low. I’m hoping you have the number of the right person at NPS who can take care of it in between the placing of July 4th port-a-potties.

[Steve O]

@huskerdont 191835 wrote:

I joke all the time about the “orange cones that fix anything” mentality we have toward infrastructure problems, but now that we’re a third-world country, we can’t even afford those. A sinkhole is forming on the trail above Chain Bridge, and this is the warning system currently in place:

I reported this to the county.

[huskerdont]

@Steve O 191843 wrote:

I reported this to the county.

As did I (added an ETA to my post after I did it earlier this morning).

[ChristoB50]

Some broken glass on 4MR right around Mt. Vernon Ave bridge; will try to bring a whisk broom home with me tonight and clean it up.
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[ChristoB50]

Shades of Freezing Saddles Quick Picks…
Whisk broom secured at Velo Cafe/District Hardware this morning; then three shattered bottle messes along 4MRT cleaned up this evening, with a make-shift “dustpan” to scoop up the shards, courtesy of the elegant ladies of Sabados Internacionales…

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[Judd]

@ChristoB50 191891 wrote:

Shades of Freezing Saddles Quick Picks…
Whisk broom secured at Velo Cafe/District Hardware this morning; then three shattered bottle messes along 4MRT cleaned up this evening, with a make-shift “dustpan” to scoop up the shards, courtesy of the elegant ladies of Sabados Internacionales…

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6 points!

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[ChristoB50]

I got a little whisk-broom happy… after the final glass clean-up heading home (glass in the eastbound lane of 4MRT as it descends under W. Glebe), right as I turned off the Walter Reed portion of trail, to enter the Barcroft Park portion of 4MRT — I decided that the loose, small gravel piled on the trail (right at the right-hand turn into the park / just before that little stone bridge) — needed to be cleared up… I’ve taken that turn once or twice, feeling my wheels skid out a little in the loose gravel… So I swept all of it off to the side of the trail, finding the actual edge of the trail pavement in the process.
I wonder if there are Arlington Parks-operated “road cleaner” machines, sized for trails? It would have made much faster work than my little hand-broom

[huskerdont]

@Steve O 191843 wrote:

I reported this to the county.

I suppose due to our writing in, they have now put an orange cone that fixes everything on top of the hole in the pavement.

And not really a cone, but a larger barrel, so they must think it’s really important.

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[Steve O]

@huskerdont 191897 wrote:

And not really a cone, but a larger barrel, so they must think it’s really important.

Oo….oo. Perfect for bike bowling!

[consularrider]

@Steve O 191899 wrote:

Oo….oo. Perfect for bike bowling!

Isn’t it ooo-ooo?

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