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@lordofthemark 191592 wrote:

1. semi dockless already exists, at least for bikes.

Like the 3 Jump bikes on the Case Bridge sidepath this morning?

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@ShawnoftheDread 191569 wrote:

Yes, the sidewalk in front of FS Key Park as you come off the bridge. The one that’s already too narrow for for foot and bike traffic.

Maybe we can get them to explain why they don’t think it’s a good idea to put signs warning of sidewalk or bike lane closures in the general travel lanes, and then ask why that logic does not work the other way around.

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@huskerdont 191556 wrote:

“”State”” because we’re really a Commonwealth?

Aha! That’s the loophole!

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@scoot 191550 wrote:

Sometimes I wonder if the automobile repair lobby is who truly holds sway in this country. It would explain so many things…

It certainly explains Virginia “State” vehicle inspection requirements. :rolleyes:

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@dasgeh 191542 wrote:

What’s finished is just half of the trail. What was the trail will be improved, and I expect that a final layer will be put over both halves when they’re both ready. Kinda like a double layer cake – you get the first layer ready, but you don’t make everything smooth and pretty until both layers are together.

What is the final configuration going to be, pedestrian or bike lanes nearest the car travel lanes? If bikes are next to the road, the curb-cut issue will not be solved by another layer of asphalt finished with a good roller.

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Small tree down blocking about 1/2 of the width of Trollheim south of the TR Bridge exit.

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@Steve O 191462 wrote:

I want to see a bat eat a firefly.

If a bat eats enough fireflies, will its belly begin to glow?

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The other detour, actually of the Custis under I-66, looks like it is about ready to begin (a month late, it seems). I like how the detour signs (still bagged up) are about as tall as basketball backboards. I guess it’s so all the penny-farthing riders I see on the Custis every day can see them well.

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@zsionakides 191394 wrote:

There are a couple similar sections on the Custis trail where the trail is between the highway and sound wall, but those are shorter segments.

Nowhere, however, is the Custis Trail as close to the road as the inside-the-sound-barrier portions of this trail, except perhaps where the Custis is outside the sound barrier.

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@Bob James 191360 wrote:

66 Commuter Connection Trail. I would have loved this trail along 66 when I was commuting between Manassas and Capital Hill. As it was, I had to go an extra 10 miles each way for the safest way in. I like direct trails along highways when you have to get from point A to point B the quickest way. I would ride more scenic routes for recreational riding. Custis is good, but it’s too hilly (especially westbound) to be commuter friendly (especially if when wet, snow, or ice on trail).

I don’t think any of the critics here oppose the idea of a trail being built along with the I-66 re-construction, but rather the way it will be built with so much of the trail on the I-66 road grade separated by a glorified jersey barrier rather than outside the soundwall.

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@Steve O 191328 wrote:

I guess when you have cars around you just can’t have nice things.

I guess I see your point, but if there were no cars around, we wouldn’t need these particular nice things.

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You mean Saturday, June 8, right?

How long is the bike prep work likely to take?

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@Steve O 191313 wrote:

My bike at a water park (It’s water, and people play with their boats in it. Seems like a park then.) I’m it!

Looks more like water where people park their boats. Water parking.

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@secstate 191304 wrote:

For people who like to know what they’re clicking on, this story says the bicycle industry in the US is worried about declining numbers of children who are riding, the impact of Chinese tariffs, and overall declining numbers of regular cyclists.

Sorry, the forum vastly shortened the link, which was actually rather descriptive of the content.

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15: National Association of Hearing-Aid Manufacturers Trail (NAHAMT)
16: Perpetual Code Orange Air Quality Alert Trail (PCOAQAT)

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