safety concerns: 8th St versus 14th St

[cephas]

I come in from the other direction, but from your side, fwiw I recommend 15th St. It has a great bicycle lane from 16th St. (Columbia Heights) all the way downtown and is well travelled, but not car heavy.

[jrenaut]

The 15th street cycletracks are nice, though I find the lights to be timed pretty badly for southbound traffic. Note that the southbound lanes start V St NW and go down to Pennsylvania Ave (with a short and poorly signed detour past the White House) to connect with the cycletracks there.

You will certainly not have the issues you mention on 15th, but there’s a lot of distance between V and Silver Spring that you still have to cover, and I don’t really know the roads for biking north of Columbia Heights.

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