Nov 2019 – Road and Trail Conditions

[rcannon100]

Was the lite post wearing a helmet?

[TwoWheelsDC]

No signs of construction at Banneker Park as of 9am.

[Sunyata]

@TwoWheelsDC 194641 wrote:

No signs of construction at Banneker Park as of 9am.

When I went home yesterday afternoon, they had placed barriers beside the trail and covered detour signs. When I went through this morning, they were still there and the trail was still open.

I expect they will have everything in place sometime today for the detour.

[TwoWheelsDC]

@Sunyata 194678 wrote:

When I went home yesterday afternoon, they had placed barriers beside the trail and covered detour signs. When I went through this morning, they were still there and the trail was still open.

I expect they will have everything in place sometime today for the detour.

Yeah, looked like they did some survey work or utility marking yesterday…planning for a detour tonight.

[arlcxrider]

@TwoWheelsDC 194689 wrote:

Yeah, looked like they did some survey work or utility marking yesterday…planning for a detour tonight.

The county’s “official” detour involves two beg buttons, etc. I think I’ll continue crossing Roosevelt at 16th St, which becomes Columbia St in Falls Church.

[My obligatory “one post” to register for Freezing Saddles.]

[bentbike33]

@TwoWheelsDC 194689 wrote:

Yeah, looked like they did some survey work or utility marking yesterday…planning for a detour tonight.

For the detour (westbound), I recommend exiting the trail at the Roosevelt St. cul-de-sac, up to a left on Sycamore/Roosevelt (there is a median in which to take refuge if you have to wait for the southbound cars to clear) for the short hop to a right onto 16th/Columbia. Then either past Bikenetic or all the way out to Little Falls, and right back to the W&OD. See this ride.

[Tania]

@bentbike33 194699 wrote:

For the detour (westbound), I recommend exiting the trail at the Roosevelt St. cul-de-sac, up to a left on Sycamore/Roosevelt (there is a median in which to take refuge if you have to wait for the southbound cars to clear) for the short hop to a right onto 16th/Columbia. Then either past Bikenetic or all the way out to Little Falls, and right back to the W&OD. See this ride.

You are my detour guru.

[TwoWheelsDC]

@bentbike33 194699 wrote:

For the detour (westbound), I recommend exiting the trail at the Roosevelt St. cul-de-sac, up to a left on Sycamore/Roosevelt (there is a median in which to take refuge if you have to wait for the southbound cars to clear) for the short hop to a right onto 16th/Columbia. Then either past Bikenetic or all the way out to Little Falls, and right back to the W&OD. See this ride.

Seems a lot longer and more involved then just taking the path from the basketball court to Sycamore to 19th, no? Admittedly I refuse to take the signed bridge construction detour and just take the sidewalk on Fairfax Drive because I’m ultimately headed to Westmoreland, not the W&OD further west…so maybe that’s why your route makes less sense to me.

[bentbike33]

@TwoWheelsDC 194707 wrote:

Seems a lot longer and more involved then just taking the path from the basketball court to Sycamore to 19th, no? Admittedly I refuse to take the signed bridge construction detour and just take the sidewalk on Fairfax Drive because I’m ultimately headed to Westmoreland, not the W&OD further west…so maybe that’s why your route makes less sense to me.

Yes, I’m going west on W&OD. Also, I don’t like riding on sidewalks, and the Columbia St. stoplight at Lee Hwy (Washington St/Route 29) is well behaved.

[dasgeh]

@bentbike33 194699 wrote:

For the detour (westbound), I recommend exiting the trail at the Roosevelt St. cul-de-sac, up to a left on Sycamore/Roosevelt (there is a median in which to take refuge if you have to wait for the southbound cars to clear) for the short hop to a right onto 16th/Columbia. Then either past Bikenetic or all the way out to Little Falls, and right back to the W&OD. See this ride.

This seems to work westbound, but I would STRONGLY recommend against it eastbound — the sightline at the intersection of Columbia/16th St & Sycamore/Roosevelt is VERY BAD.

Also, it’s December.

[Judd]

@bentbike33 194710 wrote:

Yes, I’m going west on W&OD. Also, I don’t like riding on sidewalks, and the Columbia St. stoplight at Lee Hwy (Washington St/Route 29) is well behaved.

Is it harder to see potholes and junk on the recumbent?

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