Maine Avenue is Combat

[TwoWheelsDC]

Holy shit Maine was a dumpster fire today. Sounds like you may be working out some deeper issues through your “poetry” beyond bicycling , but it certainly captures some of the emotions I feel on my daily rides through there.

[ChampionTier]

@TwoWheelsDC 165987 wrote:

Sounds like you may be working out some deeper issues through your “poetry” beyond bicycling

I suppose I’m still miffed about the flat tire I got the other day which I suspect was from running over some debris on my way in. That and I’m staring out the window at a perfectly beautiful day and I’m itchin’ to get back out there.

[ursus]

@ChampionTier 165990 wrote:

I suppose I’m still miffed about the flat tire I got the other day which I suspect was from running over some debris on my way in. That and I’m staring out the window at a perfectly beautiful day and I’m itchin’ to get back out there.

Since the construction started, I have blamed 3 bike flats and one car flat on the construction. I am looking enviously at the bike track and thinking how good it will be until the middle of next year when Phase 2 construction begins. That will be even worse for me because it is nearer to where I live.

[bentbike33]

I have resigned myself to overflights of Maine Ave on the Case Bridge. At least until the concurrent Banneker Park re-do makes that option a complete CF too.

[TwoWheelsDC]

@ursus 165993 wrote:

Since the construction started, I have blamed 3 bike flats and one car flat on the construction. I am looking enviously at the bike track and thinking how good it will be until the middle of next year when Phase 2 construction begins. That will be even worse for me because it is nearer to where I live.

I was regularly googling “black lung symptoms” until I switched to the Case Bridge>G St. for my eastbound PM commute. Now I just have to worry about colliding with an inattentive construction worker, getting smushed by a commuter bus, getting right-hooked at 9th, or crashing on one of the new holes they carved in the pavement yesterday on the westbound AM portion of my commute.

[ChampionTier]

@ursus 165993 wrote:

…until the middle of next year when Phase 2 construction begins. That will be even worse for me because it is nearer to where I live.

There’s gonna be a phase 2? Guess I’ll get a black beret, some cigarettes, and some jazz records…more of that stuff is sure to generate another poem or two…

[bentbike33]

@ChampionTier 166000 wrote:

There’s gonna be a phase 2? Guess I’ll get a black beret, some cigarettes, and some jazz records…more of that stuff is sure to generate another poem or two…

…and bongos. Don’t forget the bongos.

[ChampionTier]

@bentbike33 166006 wrote:

…and bongos. Don’t forget the bongos.

**Snaps fingers vigorously as a genuine sign of approval**

[lordofthemark]

“Where the snow comes down before the sun comes up – Maine is the main thing!” Richard Rodgers

[AFHokie]

@ChampionTier 165985 wrote:

Your chatter is clipped and precise — there is no time for superfluous banter

If you start speaking in brevity comm on your bike commute I’m staging an intervention

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[streetsmarts]

@bentbike33 166006 wrote:

…and bongos. Don’t forget the bongos.

This is a fabulous thread. I had to look up “brevity comm”.

[ChampionTier]

@TwoWheelsDC 165995 wrote:

… or crashing on one of the new holes they carved in the pavement yesterday on the westbound AM portion of my commute.

I was pretty happy to see that they filled in the manhole-sized pothole on the WB lane close to the fish market. I think I heard cries for help coming out of it once!

[ChampionTier]

@AFHokie 166019 wrote:

If you start speaking in brevity comm on your bike commute I’m staging an intervention

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We’re not there yet… but I did think “MILLER TIME” as I exited the Eisenhower Connector toward Clarendon on my way home:rolleyes:

[ursus]

To add to the fun, there is a sign up today that Maine Avenue will be repaved from 10/3 to 10/11. Not sure how this will affect travel while it is going on.

[lordofthemark]

@ursus 166050 wrote:

To add to the fun, there is a sign up today that Maine Avenue will be repaved from 10/3 to 10/11. Not sure how this will affect travel while it is going on.

I am guessing it will mean a fair number of people trying out the PBL, even though its not “open”. BTW, does that mean the construction will be done?

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