Nov 2019 – Road and Trail Conditions

[Mario20136]

@DrP 194033 wrote:

Happy November!

The storms yesterday and last night brought a tree down on the Custis between the trail heading up towards Veitch (i.e., the trail east of the bridge to nowhere, through McCoy park) and Lee Highway. It looked like maybe you could go under, but I went up and around.

Really? I went under the tree and did a little bit of Cyclocross

[Henry]

Careful coming down the ramp off the Route 50 bridge by TJ Middle School in Arlington. Someone has dragged the landscaping timbers across the trail (from the driveway at the bottom). These are several bolted together. Too big for me to move.
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The situation has been reported to the County.

Henry

[Henry]

Am told this has been fixed. Will investigate tonight.

Henry

[Henry]

FMR Trail through Benjamin Banneker Park will close for construction the week of Nov. 18, 2019 and remain closed through 3rd Quarter 2020.

View the detour for pedestrian and bicycle traffic.

Learn more about the project.

Henry

[dasgeh]

@Henry 194174 wrote:

FMR Trail through Benjamin Banneker Park will close for construction the week of Nov. 18, 2019 and remain closed through 3rd Quarter 2020.

View the detour for pedestrian and bicycle traffic.

Learn more about the project.

Henry

Hopefully the signs for this detour will be easy to follow for people coming off the existing detour for the construction of the bridge over 29.

[zsionakides]

@Henry 194174 wrote:

FMR Trail through Benjamin Banneker Park will close for construction the week of Nov. 18, 2019 and remain closed through 3rd Quarter 2020.

View the detour for pedestrian and bicycle traffic.

Learn more about the project.

Henry

Is there a reason the trail can’t be kept open through the construction. I understand the need for a detour while it’s being resurfaced and widened or adjacent work is being done, but that doesn’t take a year.

[dasgeh]

@zsionakides 194178 wrote:

Is there a reason the trail can’t be kept open through the construction. I understand the need for a detour while it’s being resurfaced and widened or adjacent work is being done, but that doesn’t take a year.

I would write parks@arlingtonva.us to get that answer.

[bentbike33]

@Henry 194174 wrote:

FMR Trail through Benjamin Banneker Park will close for construction the week of Nov. 18, 2019 and remain closed through 3rd Quarter 2020.

Any idea to what “3rd Quarter 2020” is in reference? Calendar year? Fiscal year? And if fiscal year, when did (does) FY 2020 begin?

[dasgeh]

@bentbike33 194226 wrote:

Any idea to what “3rd Quarter 2020” is in reference? Calendar year? Fiscal year? And if fiscal year, when did (does) FY 2020 begin?

Calendar year. There’s a map floating around that specifies 9/1/2020

[Brandon]

@Henry 194174 wrote:

FMR Trail through Benjamin Banneker Park will close for construction the week of Nov. 18, 2019 and remain closed through 3rd Quarter 2020.

View the detour for pedestrian and bicycle traffic.

Learn more about the project.

Henry

For what it’s worth, it was still open this morning when i went through around 7am

[Sunyata]

@Brandon 194343 wrote:

For what it’s worth, it was still open this morning when i went through around 7am

New start date for the closure is December 3rd. There was a sign up yesterday afternoon.

[Hancockbs]

Boardwalks and bridges along the Potomac were very frosty this morning. Be prepared for lowered traction!

[dbb]

GWMP at Gravelly Point. It seems that a light pole was felled by an auto last night[ATTACH=CONFIG]20523[/ATTACH]

Given that the light pole wasn’t wearing anything reflective, it probably wasn’t the driver’s fault.

[Emm]

@dbb 194515 wrote:

GWMP at Gravelly Point. It seems that a light pole was felled by an auto last night[ATTACH=CONFIG]20523[/ATTACH]

Given that the light pole wasn’t wearing anything reflective, it probably wasn’t the driver’s fault.

It was down when I biked through there around 7pm yesterday, so it must have gone down sometime before then.

[DrP]

@Emm 194518 wrote:

It was down when I biked through there around 7pm yesterday, so it must have gone down sometime before then.

It was down Sunday morning when I biked through (unless another one went down). I am surprised that it hasn’t been cleared away yet.

[Author]

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