Police on Martha Custis

[Usern Ame]

Were they doing something else too? I swear when I rode past one of the cops he looked at me and then made a little check or note on his clip board.

[baiskeli]

@Usern Ame 5469 wrote:

Were they doing something else too? I swear when I rode past one of the cops he looked at me and then made a little check or note on his clip board.

Don’t know. I didn’t get a chance to ask much, they were busy. I saw a cop car further down the trail but that might be unrelated.

[consularrider]

Hmmm, there was a park police officer at the stop sign at Gravelly Point having a discussion with a cyclist. Is there a pattern here?

[StopMeansStop]

I hope they follow up with writing tickets. I have been complaining for years about the near misses.

[baiskeli]

@Usern Ame 5469 wrote:

Were they doing something else too? I swear when I rode past one of the cops he looked at me and then made a little check or note on his clip board.

Maybe it was this:

http://bikepeddocumentation.org/

[Tim Kelley]

@baiskeli 5486 wrote:

Maybe it was this:

http://bikepeddocumentation.org/

No it wouldn’t be the bike/ped counts. That is organized by County staff and completed by resident volunteers, usually in September.

The police may be keep records for their own purposes.

[KLizotte]

@StopMeansStop 5483 wrote:

I hope they follow up with writing tickets. I have been complaining for years about the near misses.

I ride thru Gravelly Pt twice a day on my commute and I can’t say I’ve ever seen a real safety issue with cyclists only slowing down or riding thru the stop sign (little traffic and usually one gets waved thru by drivers anyway) but I have seen some some seriously dangerous situations with the peds along the trail right at the end of the runway. The peds don’t look before crossing, stand in clusters on the asphalt, let their kiddies play there, etc.

Ideally, the county or NPS (I don’t know who controls the land) would build a trail detour along the western side of the grass and back over to the trail at the northern end of the playing fields. That way cyclists can bypass that bottleneck altogether. Since the land is already cleared and mowed regularly anyway, seems like the only cost would be building and maintaining the trail itself. They could even go so far as to mark that short detour as “cyclists only” to deter joggers/walkers from turning it into a circuit.

Kathy

[Usern Ame]

@baiskeli 5486 wrote:

Maybe it was this:

http://bikepeddocumentation.org/

The thing is he didn’t seem to do it for the people in front of me…it was like he looked at me and was like “there’s one”…could have been just a coincidence, but then why did he have a clipboard and pen out at all?

[baiskeli]

@Usern Ame 5510 wrote:

The thing is he didn’t seem to do it for the people in front of me…it was like he looked at me and was like “there’s one”…could have been just a coincidence, but then why did he have a clipboard and pen out at all?

It’s a trick to make you nervous.

[Usern Ame]

@baiskeli 5516 wrote:

It’s a trick to make you nervous.

Yep, that makes the most sense.

[StopMeansStop]

@baiskeli 5466 wrote:

Now that I got a chance to use that title…

Sounds like a Cinemax late night special

[baiskeli]

@StopMeansStop 5546 wrote:

Sounds like a Cinemax late night special

Glad somebody appreciates it.

[Mark Blacknell]

Talked to the ACPD officer there today. While I’ve been publicly critical of some ACPD efforts, I have zero problems with what I witnessed. It was all warnings, and in every case that I saw, well deserved. They were out there in response to a citizen complaint (so no coordination with NPS at Gravelly, etc.). We talked for a bit about what might be done, what the real problems were, etc. I left quite satisfied that this particular officer was bringing a net benefit to our streets by doing what she was doing.

(Also? Christ there are some idiots on bikes. If you don’t have enough sense/capacity to notice the ACPD car/officer standing *right there* and stop/slow down? Then you certainly weren’t going to see an approaching car.)

[Usern Ame]

Did you find out what the citizen complaint was? Was it speed or someone going through a red light?

[RESTONTODC]

@Mark Blacknell 5607 wrote:

(Also? Christ there are some idiots on bikes. If you don’t have enough sense/capacity to notice the ACPD car/officer standing *right there* and stop/slow down? Then you certainly weren’t going to see an approaching car.)

I’m totally agreed. The ACPD officer wants to show his presence by parking his mark car the light. If you can’t see him, you should deserve a ticket.

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