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[brendan]

Beautiful day, but definitely a bit chillier on the western part of the W&OD (as well as once the sun went down on the way back to DC).

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[Drewdane]

Lady in the red windbreaker who passed me on the EB WOD this morning: I’m not bothered by your failure to call your pass (I’m sadly all too accustomed to that behavior) so much as I am annoyed by the dirty looks I got from the drivers you cut off when you barrelled through the following street crossing without even looking, much less slowing down or yielding the right of way (which was theirs).

[consularrider]

@dcv 107827 wrote:

Some may have started early when it was mid 30’s

It was 43 when Cyndi and I headed out on at 8 on Sunday morning, by mid-afternoon it was 70. Still, I was comfortable in my wool knickers and long wool socks, mid-weight wool baselayer with windstopper jacket and long finger gloves. Oh yeah, did I mention the 20 mph winds that took the perceived temperature back to the 40s? Nice thing about wool is that it breathes.

[lordofthemark]

Me – cyclist in red windbreaker, in the bikelane EB at Eye Street SW and S. Cap. On my right was a truck, properly signalling a right turn from the right turn lane. On my left was you, a woman driving a car, in the lane from which you cannot legally turn right, you are supposed to go straight across South Capitol.

It was good that you rolled down your window to tell me you were about to make a right. Kept me from being hit. What you did was still quite illegal, and somewhat rude. Had I been less surprised, I would have told you it was illegal, instead of shouting that later when you probably could not hear me.

[Crickey7]

To all the pedestrians who like to thread through the stopped traffic on L Street at 24th and pop out in front of me in the bike lane: That bell-ringing I do for the half block leading up to that intersection? You are not kitty-cats, and that is not the signal for chow time.

[notlost]

@Crickey7 108110 wrote:

To all the pedestrians who like to thread through the stopped traffic on L Street at 24th and pop out in front of me in the bike lane: That bell-ringing I do for the half block leading up to that intersection? You are not kitty-cats, and that is not the signal for chow time.

Yodeling doesn’t seem to help either.

[creadinger]

1) To the driver of the car with the coconut sized balls pulling Idaho stops at the stoplights along Eye St. SW and Maine Ave, you can go to hell. You need to have your license revoked too.

2) To the wench on the phone who right hooked me at Commonwealth and Glebe Rd in Arlandria. You can go to hell too, you oblivious POS. I hate you.

[cvcalhoun]

Hint: If the side of your car actually brushes my sleeve as you pass me, you’re probably not in compliance with the three-foot rule. Just saying…

[slowtriguy]

You: driver at the curb by Washington-Lee High School, flipping an illegal U-turn 10 feet in front of me.

Me: cyclist heading south on Stafford, alert for jerks.

You *might* want to consider a few things: (a) it’s illegal to flip a U-turn from the curb mid-block; (b) it’s dumb to flip a U-turn any time you don’t have an unobstructed view of oncoming traffic — which you couldn’t have had, what with that school bus passing you and all; (c) it’s a little snowy and icy around this morning.

Outcome: INSTA-KARMA when you ram your car head-on into a snowbank.

Me: Riding past, shaking my head and laughing at the insta-karma.

[mstone]

@cvcalhoun 108439 wrote:

Hint: If the side of your car actually brushes my sleeve as you pass me, you’re probably not in compliance with the three-foot rule. Just saying…

Depends on whether you’re wearing a really puffy shirt, no?

[baiskeli]

@mstone 108860 wrote:

Depends on whether you’re wearing a really puffy shirt, no?

But I don’t wanna be a pirate!

[consularrider]

How about a samba shirt modeled by a Tim Kelley lookalike?

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[scoot]

@slowtriguy 108844 wrote:

it’s illegal to flip a U-turn from the curb mid-block

Really? I’ve never heard this.

[slowtriguy]

I said that “It’s illegal to flip a U-turn from the curb mid-block…”, and scoot asked:

@scoot 108946 wrote:

Really? I’ve never heard this.

to which I have to admit thinking, “You know, I’m really not sure I was right for Virginia…” (being an import and all). So I went looking and found this via LIS:

§ 46.2-845. Limitation on U-turns.
The driver of a vehicle within cities, towns or business districts of counties shall not turn his vehicle so as to proceed in the opposite direction except at an intersection.
No vehicle shall be turned so as to proceed in the opposite direction on any curve, or on the approach to or near the crest of a grade, where the vehicle cannot be seen by the driver of any other vehicle approaching from any direction within 500 feet.
(Code 1950, § 46-230; 1958, c. 541, § 46.1-214; 1989, c. 727.)

Maybe there’s a more recent law, and/or maybe Arlington has a law that supersedes that one, but I think that first sentence means what the driver did was illegal.

But then I am most definitely not a lawyer, so I should probably shut up now.

[DismalScientist]

Arlington is not a city. What is the business district of Arlington?

I thought the rule in the civilized world was not to do it across a center line.

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