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@eminva 8667 wrote:

Sorry for being flippant — it just seems so silly at times.

Don’t apologize – it’s perfectly acceptable to be annoyed that the aesthetics of an event that happens every four years are more important than the lives of cyclists every day.

It seems to me that the signs at all the intersections without left turn arrows saying “No Left/U turns” would imply that you can’t make a left or u-turn anywhere on the street where there isn’t a turn arrow.

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You and biaskeli need to work on your timing.

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The signal timing is annoying. Though if it were timed differently I fear it would become a racetrack (more so than it already is) and the u-turns would get worse.

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@americancyclo 8580 wrote:

I’ve actually changed my westbound commute pattern so I can avoid these lanes in the evening unless I’m specifically meeting up with someone. Independence Ave has more traffic, but at least it flows better and is marginally more predictable.

This is infuriating (not you, the fact that you felt you had to make this choice) – experienced cyclists choosing not to use the dedicated bike facilities because they feel safer riding on another street in traffic.

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I got scared the other day when I was driving and lost a cyclist I had just passed. He was riding at night with no lights and I was actively looking for him and couldn’t find him as I came up to a traffic light. If someone who bikes in the city nearly every day couldn’t see a cyclist that he was actively looking for and knew was there, how in the world is your average driver going to?

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From the WashCycle: DC Council to hold hearing on enforcement of pedestrian and bicycle safety

By the way, Jim Graham has not responded to my email, and will get an annoyed follow-up tomorrow if that doesn’t change.

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I sent an email along with a link to this thread to my councilmember (Jim Graham, Ward 1). I’d really like to see enforcement of all modes of transportation. Cars making illegal turns, pedestrians jaywalking, and cyclists blowing lights.

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I think it would actually be good for the sponsor to paint the bikes some other color. Now that people are used to seeing red bikes, many are unlikely to notice the addition of the sponsor’s name without a change in the color scheme.

I do like the red bikes, though.

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I have never met Dirt in person, but I’ll bet you sing just as well as he does.

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Dear angry man in the red Mustang turning from the alley onto 15th St NW –

I suppose you can technically make the argument that you didn’t fail to yield to pedestrians on the sidewalk as there weren’t any, though you had no way of knowing that since you didn’t look.

But you didn’t yield to me biking lawfully in the designated bike lane, and had you gone another three or four inches, you would have knocked me off my bike. Then you met my “turn around, incredulous” look with some angry hand gesture that I couldn’t really make out through your fogged up windows.

So, thank you for helping me get my heart rate up (unnecessarily, as the hill by Meridian Hill Park does that just fine) on my ride home.

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I think they would need to change the Constitution.

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@baiskeli 8456 wrote:

I used to stroll my kid to daycare and then wheel the empty stroller back home. Pretty much every time, some passerby would say “you forgot something!” Hilarious.

When I was picking up both kids from daycare I brought the empty stroller with me – I told someone who made that joke that I was heading to daycare for a refill.

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Is it just me, or did everyone who went car-free yesterday suddenly decide they HAD to drive today? Traffic was really heavy on my way in. It didn’t help that there are a bunch of people in pink walking around (Is there a breast cancer walk going on today?), but I don’t think that could have accounted for all the extra volume.

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For the next couple days TheClymb.com has big discounts on Chrome Falcon ($70) and Romer ($60) bags if anyone is interested. It’s sort of an invite-only site, but PM me and I can if it doesn’t let you join on your own.

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@Dirt 8347 wrote:

You’ll always be special to me.

Great! I think . . .

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