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@sjclaeys 189971 wrote:

I think that an objective examination of local bike advocacy organizations’ activities would show that they are mostly focused on promoting bicycle-specific physical infrastructure. Look at the projects they focus on, the items on their meeting agendas, and what they advocate the cycling community to engage in.
Also, by institutional infrastructure, I don’t just mean law enforcement agencies. This would also include changing the agencies that conduct and oversee roadwork to always ensure that a safe and reasonable accommodation is made for cyclists and pedestrians. Another institutional infrastructure change would behaving an ombuds-person who has authority to advocate for vulnerable road users with the local government. This would be different from agencies like BikeArlington that have a limited mission of promoting cycling (which they do very well).

We have to start somewhere though, right? Physical infrastructure is not easy to obtain — but changes in institutional infrastructure are much harder. To get changes in institutional infrastructure, “the public” or “the voters” will need to consistently push for changes over very long time-lines. To get a critical mass of people that push for that, infrastructure is an crucial first step.

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Thank you for the reminder! Filed a ticket for 2 Quincy bikelane posts.

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I respectfully disagree. This is the sort of infrastructure that improves bicycling for me, tremendously. Love the bike lanes as they were created on Quincy and Veitch.

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Is that in Ballston?

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The protected bike lane along Quincy in Arlington was made better with heavy duty planters yesterday. Really cool to see this getting better and better.

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@lordofthemark 181392 wrote:

Yup, in my opinion one factor in making some door zone lanes worse than others, aside from width, is the amount of parking turnover. One of the things that makes the southbound lane on Crystal Drive terrible. The lane on Prince is not greate, but I guess it’s at least wider, and the turnover is not quite as bad as in some other places.

At least in that whole corridor from Ballston to Rosslyn the County seems to be gradually replacing the conventional bike lanes with buffered/protected ones. Not sure if that is possible on that block.

That’s totally possible. There is a ton of space on Fairfax, included a useless median. There’s no reason to have 4-lane highway right through the heart of the R-B corridor

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Work on the Clarendon circle in Arlington will start next week. It’s estimated to take about 1 year. Big improvement for pedestrians, couple of tweaks for bicyclists as well.

https://projects.arlingtonva.us/projects/clarendon-circle/

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I’ve been using this PBL for a few days now and I love it. I’m probably changing my commute to permanently use it. (Can’t wait for the rest of Quincy )

The 15 minute drop off zone was blocked this morning by a Home Depot truck.

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Hey Bobco, sorry to hear about that! Hope you are recovering well.

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I like this! Another hotspot is Clarendon Blvd at Whole Foods. There are a lot of paint lanes on the road, which visually instructs traffic where not to go.

That would be a place for potential planters or plungers.

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I attended the meeting and left comments online as well. This is great progress.

Let’s hope we can continue these bike lanes into Clarendon and onto Fairfax Dr.

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That was nice! The plans for Veitch looks really good. Very exciting to see this come to reality. Can’t wait for Wilson and Fairfax to be treated the same way.

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We plan to be there around 6 pm to speak out in support. Good stuff!

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I would continue to look for opportunities when restriping occurs, to get PBLs. For example, expanding the PBL on Wilson further towards Clarendon.

Keep advocating for narrowing roads (Washington Blvd comes to mind) with bikelines, PBL or not.

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I’d say — the more bicycles, the better. The more people use bikes, the more political pressure there will be to improve the safety of our infrastructure.

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