My Evening Commute
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@Zack 161313 wrote:
Certainly way too ambitious for government but the traffic patterns and street configuration on the Mall is stupidly inefficient and makes walking and biking unpleasant and second class. Reconfiguring some of those streets could improve traffic flow, ease congestion a bit and make walking and biking first class.
But government is anchored to the status quo!I think “government” could do it, but on the Mall, you have at least 3 governmental bodies. That makes it more difficult to do, but I’m very disappointed that they don’t even try.
@EasyRider 161391 wrote:
On the Friday commute home, I was pleasantly surprised – an asphalt path just north of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial has been converted to gravel. There are quite a few old lamp post bases along the path there, and they really blended in with the black path surface. Now they stand out nicely against the bright gravel!
Agreed, just glad I survived the shock of the first ride onto it at speed not knowing it was gravel
Last night while riding home I saw a HUGE group of cyclists under the bridge at Jones Point Park. They caught up with me at the red when I was waiting to cross the apartment complex crossing on the MVT going south.
3-5 of them passed me at Belle Haven Park, but since I was going the same pace as the group, and it was a somewhat crowded trail, no one else could pass even though I gave them as much space as I could. This meant I got to infiltrate their group ride, although since it wasn’t freezing saddles, no points for me
. They exited at Tulane with me before veering off, and as a bonus, there were SO MANY of them the cars actually stopped to let them all cross.I asked one of them what ride I was now on, and they told me it was Getting It In hills ride. I looked them up–they seem like a nice group, and most of the cyclists were polite and signaled their intentions on the trail so that was cool. My neighborhood has a ton of organized hill rides, so it’s not uncommon to see large groups of cyclists out and about. This was just my first time accidentally getting caught in one of their rides. Now I have a bunch of people on strava I “rode” with, which makes me laugh.
@Emm 162043 wrote:
Last night while riding home I saw a HUGE group of cyclists under the bridge at Jones Point Park. They caught up with me at the red when I was waiting to cross the apartment complex crossing on the MVT going south.
3-5 of them passed me at Belle Haven Park, but since I was going the same pace as the group, and it was a somewhat crowded trail, no one else could pass even though I gave them as much space as I could. This meant I got to infiltrate their group ride, although since it wasn’t freezing saddles, no points for me
. They exited at Tulane with me before veering off, and as a bonus, there were SO MANY of them the cars actually stopped to let them all cross.I asked one of them what ride I was now on, and they told me it was Getting It In hills ride. I looked them up–they seem like a nice group, and most of the cyclists were polite and signaled their intentions on the trail so that was cool. My neighborhood has a ton of organized hill rides, so it’s not uncommon to see large groups of cyclists out and about. This was just my first time accidentally getting caught in one of their rides. Now I have a bunch of people on strava I “rode” with, which makes me laugh.
The GII folks have a Meetup group if you’re interested in deliberately riding with them. They have a safety yellow group kit too. They also seem to do group rides at HP and I see smaller groups of them sometimes.
Yesterday’s evening commute was almost a perfect spa day commute as I got soaked in the rain then dried when the sun came back out.
The weather provided for me:
– refreshing rainwater shower
– steamy hot sauna
– pretty rainbow sightingAll that was missing:
– relaxing massageSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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