June 2020 Road and Trail Conditions

[Dewey]

Hains Point loop closed to cyclists as the area is being used “to stage law enforcement assets”, the golf course and parks remain open.
https://hillrag.com/2020/06/04/hains-point-loop-closed-to-stage-federal-assets/
The BikeDC reddit has a thread on the closure https://www.reddit.com/r/bikedc/comments/gsepmg/haines_point_is_open/

[viennabiker]

@Dewey 201302 wrote:

Hains Point loop closed to cyclists as the area is being used “to stage law enforcement assets”, the golf course and parks remain open.
https://hillrag.com/2020/06/04/hains-point-loop-closed-to-stage-federal-assets/
The BikeDC reddit has a thread on the closure https://www.reddit.com/r/bikedc/comments/gsepmg/haines_point_is_open/

Hains Point was open this afternoon: [ATTACH=CONFIG]21522[/ATTACH]

[DrP]

The first ford on four mile run trail north of Columbia Pike has been overflowing a lot lately, including when the stream is very low. This morning there was an excavator (or back hoe or some yellow vehicle with a scoop) trying to move rocks around. Hopefully this will allow more flow.

[DrP]

@DrP 201400 wrote:

The first ford on four mile run trail north of Columbia Pike has been overflowing a lot lately, including when the stream is very low. This morning there was an excavator (or back hoe or some yellow vehicle with a scoop) trying to move rocks around. Hopefully this will allow more flow.

Alas, it was flooded this morning despite the low water, so either they were doing something different or could not figure out that puzzle yesterday.

[ursus]

Does anyone know what damaged the chain-link fence on the south side of the Goose Creek bridge on the W&OD? It is significantly out of shape.

[Dewey]

First day back at the Library, super quiet on the roads at 8am, no changes on my route except these walk signs appeared at the entrances to the Kennedy Center plaza, so much for being a bike bridge.

[Dewey]

First day back at work, a new change I observed was these signs have appeared on the pedestrian & bicycle bridge over Rock Creek Pkwy at the Kennedy Center
[ATTACH=CONFIG]21531[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=CONFIG]21532[/ATTACH]

[drevil]

@Dewey 201630 wrote:

First day back at work, a new change I observed was these signs have appeared on the pedestrian & bicycle bridge over Rock Creek Pkwy at the Kennedy Center
[ATTACH=CONFIG]21531[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=CONFIG]21532[/ATTACH]

You can thank VikingMariner for that: http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?4659-Post-your-ride-pics&p=201158#post201158

I kid!

[Dewey]

Ah, that explains the barrier across the stairs, I was wondering.

[dbb]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]21541[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]21542[/ATTACH]

So Arlington announced in April that the beg buttons had been set to automatic, meaning peds and cyclists didn’t have to push the buttons. Well, in the past couple of weeks, the buttons finally were labeled telling potential button pushers that they didn’t have to actually do so. Some are labeled so it is pretty obvious and others are merely labeled. Putting the label 18 inches above the button is probably not going to achieve the goal of eliminating the button pushing.

[DrP]

@dbb 201687 wrote:

[ATTACH=CONFIG]21541[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]21542[/ATTACH]

So Arlington announced in April that the beg buttons had been set to automatic, meaning peds and cyclists didn’t have to push the buttons. Well, in the past couple of weeks, the buttons finally were labeled telling potential button pushers that they didn’t have to actually do so. Some are labeled so it is pretty obvious and others are merely labeled. Putting the label 18 inches above the button is probably not going to achieve the goal of eliminating the button pushing.

I read both here and on county notifications about not needing to push the buttons, but I have found that to not always be the case at several locations (while I may be impatient at times, but I have watched them cycle through without ever changing – I even caught the one on Pershing at Jackson cycle back to cross Jackson without ever stopping Pershing). This morning, the walk signal across Orme at Columbia Pike never changed – I just followed what the street light did instead.

[arlcxrider]

@DrP 201709 wrote:

I read both here and on county notifications about not needing to push the buttons, but I have found that to not always be the case at several locations (while I may be impatient at times, but I have watched them cycle through without ever changing – I even caught the one on Pershing at Jackson cycle back to cross Jackson without ever stopping Pershing). This morning, the walk signal across Orme at Columbia Pike never changed – I just followed what the street light did instead.

My understanding is that only “beg buttons” in areas of high pedestrian activity had been changed, on a case-by-case basis. There was no county-wide re-programming of beg buttons or new policy mandating same.

[Steve O]

@Dewey 201630 wrote:

First day back at work, a new change I observed was these signs have appeared on the pedestrian & bicycle bridge over Rock Creek Pkwy at the Kennedy Center
[ATTACH=CONFIG]21531[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=CONFIG]21532[/ATTACH]

I saw those last Wednesday but proceeded up the ramp on my bike (at walking speed) anyway. The police officer standing at the top said nothing to me. YMMV.

[dasgeh]

@arlcxrider 201712 wrote:

My understanding is that only “beg buttons” in areas of high pedestrian activity had been changed, on a case-by-case basis. There was no county-wide re-programming of beg buttons or new policy mandating same.

Yes and no. It was supposed to be all beg buttons in certain corridors were changed, but not elsewhere. IIRC the corridors were: Crystal City/Rte 1, Columbia Pike, Wilson/Clarendon/Fairfax, Lee, Glebe. Not County-wide, but all buttons within the designated areas, not case-by-case.

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