Brendan von Buckingham
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Brendan von Buckingham
ParticipantHey Mr. Head Down in your Phone with Headphones on. It’s a bad idea to walk exactly along the yellow line on the Ft. Cass Trail downhill, especially on the curve where the vines narrow the trail. I hope you lived through your commute.
ParticipantThe car side of the sign should be white and the bike side of the sign should be yellow.
Still, last week, with an earthmover and 4 construction workers taking up the bike lane and me in the main lane I had the joy of a Ford 150 driver yelling at me to, “Get in the bike lane or I will f—ing run you over next time.” Good times, good times.
ParticipantAccording to DOT sign standards white signs indicate requirements (speed limit, one way, etc.), yellow signs indicate advice (curve ahead, reduce speed ahead, etc.). By using a white sign they are saying that it is required for bikes to use the bike lane.
ParticipantBicycles have now been restricted from taking the lane on Quincy Street. They must use the bike lane according to the new signs mounted on the bollards. The signs were new to me this morning. I can’t find an image of the sign in the AASHTO standards, but it’s white and defines a split where cars must ride left and bikes must ride right. I would have taken a picture of the new signs this morning but a northbound cement mixer truck with trailer was wiping them all out as it turned right on Wilson while I followed behind it at its seven o’clock to make my right turn too.
ParticipantFourth year in a row that my registered pitstop doesn’t have a shirt for me and the pitstop they send me to instead has shirts but they won’t give me one because I’m not registered at that pitstop. Admittedly it’s a clever way to get more bicycles out there longer if you have them scavenger hunt for t-shirts, but I’m starting to think they just don’t like me.
May 2, 2019 at 6:36 pm in reply to: Painted cycle lanes result in more close-passes by drivers, study finds #1098221ParticipantRegarding Quincy and any other bike lane. Regardless of the parked car, standing car, delivery truck, trash can, gravel, jogger, stroller, tourist, zig-zag, bollard, blind spot or door zone that’s in the bike lane, if you don’t bike in it you are fair game as far as a driver is concerned. It’s just a matter of time until the traffic regs are changed to restrict us only to bike lanes.
ParticipantYes.
ParticipantPredictable, but not logical.
ParticipantI lament how helpless and afraid we’ve become.
April 10, 2019 at 5:18 pm in reply to: Counting scooters "strewn" on the trails – MVT at the CCC to the Jefferson #1097624ParticipantI counted on my last commute (Memorial Bridge, Iwo, Ft. Cass trail, Pershing). My final tally was…all of them. All of the scooters are scattered along that route. Probably because there’s no place for a jobber in a car to pull over and fetch them for recharge.
Participant@Rockford10 189611 wrote:
Tell me again how to get through this mess? No less than 4 forum members have “shown me the way they” go through the intersection and I’m still at a loss. The easy part used to be going from Courthouse to Virginia Square, but last night, with construction closing Wilson down to one lane and rough debris in the road, I have no idea.
I went through yesterday evening. Use your advantages. Cars are crawling slower than a bike. Use the bike lane to pass most of the congestion. Before it ends because of construction barriers, change over to the first lane of cars and participate in the merge like the other vehicles.
March 11, 2019 at 7:07 pm in reply to: Am I at fault if I get hit at this type of intersection? #1096673ParticipantThey have a red light. They have no right of way until the light is green. They don’t get to hit you just because you’re on a bicycle. But if you’re on a bicycle then a driver will claim you were going 20 mph and didn’t give the driver a chance to not yield (I know. It sounds stupid. It is stupid). If you walk a bike though, you can only be going the speed of a pedestrian and they can’t claim that you “came out of nowhere.” Even if you ride 2 mph slower than a pedestrian, if you’re mounted the driver and all his eyewitness cohorts will claim you were an out of control maniac and that it’s your fault.
It was already said: the T-intersection means drivers have the habit of rolling the right on red because they’re never in conflict with cars. it behooves you to be at low-speed if you ride across here so that you can stop and avoid the collision that won’t be your fault, but they won’t blame on the driver either.
ParticipantMe: Inbound on Wilson/Clarendon Boulevard starting in Ballston.
You: Friendly police officer doing the same.
Us: Pacing each other and catching up with each other at red lights all the way through Courthouse.
Us: Catching the green at the bottom of Rhodes and cruising neck and neck, side by side at a good 25 MPH.
That other guy: The car, just 2 seconds ahead of us on Quinn, approaching his stop sign to cross Clarendon that…oh my god!…he just blew through that stop sign never getting under 10 mph.
Me: Ha! my cop pal is now going to turn left, flick his siren for a second and bust That Other Guy.No? We’re both still going straight then? Um, OK.
Us: stopped for a red at Pierce.
Me: trackstanding because the light’s been red a while and Pierce just cycled to yellow. I start cranking the pedals to get going on the green.
You on the loudspeaker: “Don’t go through that redlight Mr. Bicyclist.”
Me: Pointing to my greenlight and steaming at how useless you are. I hate you.January 25, 2019 at 6:30 pm in reply to: Beginner question: commuting from Palisades to downtown DC #1094776ParticipantTree down? I’m a woodworker who uses only local wood and love my axe. Tell me where a tree is across a trail, anywhere near me, and I’ll bike on over with my axe and cleat it. (Not kidding).
January 11, 2019 at 6:19 pm in reply to: Cars going off GW Parkway between North Boundary Channel and Trollheim #1093748Participant@TwoWheelsDC 185389 wrote:
Are we talking about the same spot? Also, the times I know where cars have gone off the road here have all been during morning rush hour in essentially normal weather conditions. ::shrug::
Pretty much yeh, but from this spot . I thought you were talking about finding the remnants of overnight crashes. If it’s daytime though I have to up the Stupid Meter and guess that people are driving while looking at a map on their phone. And they think the trail is an entrance ramp to the Roosevelt Bridge? But that would be off the chart stupid.
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