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I’m planning on being there.

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Hi folks,

I’m Annie, grateful new addition to your team. Don’t get too excited, I’m furloughed and pregnant so I’m not getting those commuting miles and not super motivated to spend my time off in the cold on a bike, but I’m good for at least SOME points since biking is still my main mode of transportation. Happy to be here!

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@bobco85 174778 wrote:

The stretch of George Mason Dr between Columbus St and Route 7 needs bike lanes, especially for those traveling up the big hill. One of the most uncomfortable biking situations for me, a cyclist who is squarely in the “strong and fearless” category, is climbing a steep hill with sharrows where I am moving very slowly, trying to catch my breath, and I have drivers zooming around me, sometimes in my lane, sometimes passing at ridiculously close distances (I don’t want to feel the wind from your vehicle as you rush by me with less than a foot to spare!). Screw the parking lane with poor visibility for parallel parkers; they need a climbing lane!

Exactly! I take the trail along Walter Reed and huff and puff up Dinwiddie, but there’s no avoiding cars zooming around me as I huff and puff up George Mason. I have taken to riding in the middle of the right lane to perhaps psychologically manipulate drivers into actually changing lanes rather than just scooting around me. I’m usually very comfortable riding in the road, but these nearly empty four-laners on which drivers still don’t change lanes for a cyclist make me quite nervous.

I’ve just emailed Fairfax County’s DOT (?? we’ll see how that goes) to ask about George Mason between Dinwiddie and Seminary and the bike master plan.

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