My Morning Commute

[JimF22003]

@DCLiz 86790 wrote:

When the light turned green, she turned into the cycle track, completely blocking it, while waiting for the heavy pedestrian traffic to clear.

Heavy pedestrians make the worst kind of traffic.

[OneEighth]

@83(b) 86804 wrote:

OMG THE SHOALING!

Ridicule is also effective.

[83b]

@OneEighth 86814 wrote:

Ridicule is also effective.

My problem, as an irredeemable misanthrope, is a tendency to blow way past “good natured chiding.” Once, I think I caused an old man to throw himself off of the 14th street bridge in despair.¹ Safer for everyone if I just spray people like they’re a misbehaving cat. There’s no way that can go wrong!

¹ Hyperbole contained herein. No old men were actually harmed in the making of this post.^2
2An old man may, however, have been saddened in the making of this post.

[kcb203]

I woke up with a sore throat for the second day in a row, and I’ve got to get to Costco soon anyway to buy big bags of dog food. All that, plus the rain, made me decide to drive from Falls Church to Chinatown and run to Costco at lunch. Urrrgh. 52 minutes to drive versus my regular 39 minutes on the bike.

[Terpfan]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]5773[/ATTACH]

My wife is over in Portland for work and sent me this from her morning run. Made me wonder what Arlington’s shiny new one says–so I figured someone here knows or maybe I should not be lazy on my way home and go up a few blocks to find out.

[consularrider]

@kcb203 86924 wrote:

I woke up with a sore throat for the second day in a row, and I’ve got to get to Costco soon anyway to buy big bags of dog food. All that, plus the rain, made me decide to drive from Falls Church to Chinatown and run to Costco at lunch. Urrrgh. 52 minutes to drive versus my regular 39 minutes on the bike.

Condolences

[Tim Kelley]

@Terpfan 86934 wrote:

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My wife is over in Portland for work and sent me this from her morning run. Made me wonder what Arlington’s shiny new one says–so I figured someone here knows or maybe I should not be lazy on my way home and go up a few blocks to find out.

As of yesterday, 85,164 since it was put in in March: http://www.bikearlington.com/pages/biking-in-arlington/counter-dashboard/about-the-counters/rosslyn-bikeometer/

View all the counters here: http://www.bikearlington.com/pages/biking-in-arlington/counter-dashboard/

[consularrider]

@Tim Kelley 86936 wrote:

As of yesterday, 85,164 since it was put in in March: http://www.bikearlington.com/pages/biking-in-arlington/counter-dashboard/about-the-counters/rosslyn-bikeometer/

View all the counters here: http://www.bikearlington.com/pages/biking-in-arlington/counter-dashboard/

I think the W&OD Bon Air East is a little off – reads over 40,000 while nothing else is over 3500. Is this like the rural road where a farmer came out with his tractor and drove back and forth over a traffic counter, or is it the suicidal bunnies zigzaging back and forth there?

[Tim Kelley]

@consularrider 86938 wrote:

I think the W&OD Bon Air East is a little off – reads over 40,000 while nothing else is over 3500. Is this like the rural road where a farmer came out with his tractor and drove back and forth over a traffic counter, or is it the suicidal bunnies zigzaging back and forth there?

Quite likely!

This is the raw data–everything gets normalized down the road: http://www.bikearlington.com/pages/biking-in-arlington/counter-dashboard/about-the-counters/

[jnva]

I’ve seen a lot of weird things happen during my commute, but watching a man undress in front of the police and then get tazered several times tops them all. W&OD between Va lane and Shreve rd.

[krazygl00]

@jnva 87056 wrote:

I’ve seen a lot of weird things happen during my commute, but watching a man undress in front of the police and then get tazered several times tops them all. W&OD between Va lane and Shreve rd.

Bath salts are awesome!

P.S. Pics Or It Didn’t Happen (POIDH)

[CPTJohnC]

@jnva 87056 wrote:

I’ve seen a lot of weird things happen during my commute, but watching a man undress in front of the police and then get tazered several times tops them all. W&OD between Va lane and Shreve rd.

I always miss the good stuff!

[jnva]

@krazygl00 87057 wrote:

Bath salts are awesome!

P.S. Pics Or It Didn’t Happen (POIDH)

Well, I thought they were coming after me so I didn’t take any pictures.

[dkel]

@jnva 87056 wrote:

I’ve seen a lot of weird things happen during my commute, but watching a man undress in front of the police and then get tazered several times tops them all. W&OD between Va lane and Shreve rd.

Ah. That explains the empty shoes in the middle of the trail, just ahead of the three cruisers that were parked there. I didn’t get pictures either–it seems gauche to stand by snapping pictures of police activity; besides, I rolled through after the naked man event (thankfully).

[jrenaut]

@jnva 87060 wrote:

Well, I thought they were coming after me so I didn’t take any pictures.

First, they came for the naked crazy man and I did not take any pictures because I’m not a naked crazy man.

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