M Street NW Cycletrack (Partially Complete) – Impressions

[Steve O]

@jnva 90762 wrote:

I would be interested to see the accident statistics from before the L and M street cycle tracks were built and after. It seems I have had more near collisions after. Mostly with pedestrians who aren’t looking out for bikes.

This would be interesting, but it’s unlikely that statistics are kept on bike/ped collisions. At least not accurately enough to know if there’s a difference.

[Steve O]

@bobco85 90767 wrote:

Since the cycletrack is now complete, I went back on Sunday and filmed the whole cycletrack again.

Thanks; nice work. The music makes me nervous.

[Kolohe]

still not the greatest fan of the design of M&22nd street intersection. The light placement is not at all intuitive for delivering the message “Right turning cars stop on red arrow”.

(and it doesn’t help if a large truck is blocking the right lane – but not the bike lane, amazingly enough – offloading into Walgreens or wherever it was delivering stuff to at midday today)

The special bike signal at Connecticut is also nice, but with the mess of construction still there, it feels like it is directing bikes to jump right in front of the M street cars that have a (near?) simultaneous green.

[jnva]

The M street cycle track still needs a lot of work.
for example,

this section is also a sidewalk:
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This is just a mess:
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So is this:
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This section looks like it’s just missing:
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and my favorite, and huge pothole in front of camelot that has been there for several weeks. Maybe they want the bikes to stop?
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[consularrider]

@jnva 91396 wrote:

The M street cycle track still needs a lot of work.
for example, … my favorite, and huge pothole in front of camelot that has been there for several weeks. Maybe they want the bikes to stop?
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Maybe they are waiting for the Lady of the Lake to appear when it fills up during the next rainstorm.

[Terpfan]

So I finally got a ride a significant chunk of this. I rode from near my old job off 15th all the way into Georgetown. The only main thing I didn’t care for was the at Connecticut Ave. You have to jut right over to Rhode Island Ave to wait for the signal. Except, you still go when the M St traffic has the green despite being on Rhode Island Ave. I could see how this would be very confusing to anyone whom didn’t know the intersection. Fortunately for me, I used to work a few blocks away so it was easy for me to visualize. I didn’t notice any signage indicating this either, although I would be surprised if it didn’t exist. Otherwise, it was fairly pleasant and just a little bumpy (poor road condition) at one part.

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