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Unfortunately, I have a meeting that night and won’t be able to be there

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It’s still not counting my rides correctly. It didn’t count this morning’s ride again. Currently, I’ve done it 14 times, but the board is only showing 8.

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@VikingMariner 196065 wrote:

Ahem. Floor tortillas are not legit.

Floor tortillas are always so gritty

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@obscurerichard 195781 wrote:

We have a POGGIO leaderboard for individuals and teams now.

Should it link to this thread? See freezing-web issue #152.

This is not counting all the times I’ve ridden this segment so far this year. I’ve submitted a bug report.

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Yay! That’s part of my daily commute!

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Another option for you (depending on where in Martin’s Addition you are) would be to take Utah/27th Street to Military Road, then Glover/Ridge Road all the way to Broad Branch. Utah is pretty wide and doesn’t have too many hills.

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@Crickey7 194478 wrote:

The stretch of RCP between Calvert and Pierce Mill has seen a few high profile security issues in the past, though mostly a decade or more ago. I often avoided it more because the trail was so rutted in the past that it wasn’t fun in the dark, and so I usually went up through Adams Morgan to do one of several things: hop on the RCP at the zoo (but after the tunnel), hop on the RCP at Porter, or pick up Park Road and then hop straight onto Beach Drive there. So I can’t be of much help for that. Not sure where you’re picking it up downtown. I’m not sure what the current arrangement is for the trail at the tunnel is. I know it was closed from flood damage, not sure it still is, and I think I remember there being some issues with the zoo not allowing that trail to be used after dark (thus requiring you go through the tunnel). 18th Street in Adams Morgan is fine, though.

The path through the zoo is completely closed since July 2018 and you have to use the tunnel. Eventually it will get rebuilt as part of this project, but it’s already been delayed for over a year. Most of the rest of the trail south of Pierce Mill has been reconstructed and widened so it’s quite nice. To avoid the un-rehabilitated section of the trail between Porter Street and Bluff Bridge (the narrow bridge near Piney Branch), use the paved side path along side Beach Drive to the Porter Street ramp.

[DCAKen]

I’m a daily commuter through RCP and instead of taking Beach Drive between Broad Branch and Joyce, I take Ridge Road and Ross Drive. There’s more climbing, but practically no traffic at all.

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On the Rock Creek Trail, the worst of the buckled pavement between the cemetery and the Mass Ave bridge has been removed and repaved last week. With the further postponement of the Rock Creek Trail rehabilitation project, this is a long-awaited intermediate step.

The Rock Creek Park Multi-Use Trail Rehabilitation and Pedestrian Bridge Project held a pre-bid meeting on April 29, 2019. The bid opening was held on May 20, 2019, and the bids received were too high. As a result, the District Office of Contracting and Procurement (OCP) canceled the advertisement for bidding on the construction project. DDOT is in the process of reanalyzing the cost estimate and obligating funds. The project will be readvertised in the Fall of 2019.

[DCAKen]

This decision has been delayed for at least five years

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/development/planning-board-reverses-decision-to-realign-capital-crescent-trail-crossing-with-little-falls-parkway/

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Yesterday evening, Beach Drive near the zoo entrance was blocked by a tree that fell across the road, hitting a car that was driving on the road. The trail was mostly blocked, but there was a narrow space between the tree and the zoo fence to walk my bike through.

This morning, the road was cleared, but the trail was still blocked. Thanks, NPS.

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New contraflow bike lanes have been added to 8th Street NW between Aspen St. and Juniper St./Eastern Ave. This street parallels Georgia Avenue and to discourage through traffic, the street is one-way northbound from Elder St. to Juniper St. and one-way southbound from Elder St. to Aspen St. There had been signs posted at some (but not all) of the intersections indicating that contraflow biking was allowed, but the new lane markings have been added in the last few weeks.

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@secstate 191205 wrote:

Unfortunately I don’t see any indication that NPS is working to repair the trail damage that is forcing everyone through the tunnel.

They have recently put some rip-rap just upstream of the bridge to stabilize the creek bank. But I don’t expect this to open for quite a while, since it’s part of the delayed project to upgrade the remaining parts of the trail that haven’t been rehabilitated.

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@rcannon100 191201 wrote:

That’s my point. Kvetching pretty much is pissing in your own water stream. If you want to solve the problems, solve them directly and dont do passive aggressive shit. Stop the person. Talk to them. I do it all the time. And my favorite is “well no one else has ever said anything” – and I know its true – because idiots would rather kvetch that directly get involved.

I told him several times as we progressed through the tunnel that there’s not enough room to pass. He kept on repeating “Passing on your left”. After exiting the tunnel, I stopped to point out that he should have walked his bike through the tunnel. He still didn’t care and went on to pass the runner ahead of me while crossing the bridge.

If I wanted to be passive aggressive, I would have stopped in the middle of the tunnel to make sure both my shoes were tied.

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Me: Running on the Beach Drive path through the tunnel

You: A biker in a hurry

If you can’t walk your bike through the tunnel as is posted and need to go keep riding, don’t try to pass runners. There’s not enough room to do that, especially with those tennis rackets bungied to your rear rack. Repeatedly calling “Passing on your left” isn’t going to make me flatten myself against the wall, and riding close enough so your front wheel starts hitting my feet will definitely make me slow down.

When you’re in that much of a hurry, take the road.

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