[JustinW]

With the growth of the school population in Arlington, there is a very real concern that funding for many future projects will be diverted to school capacity fixes. Anything Parks-related may get left behind as a result, thus the urgency in getting funding approved (or at least moved along towards approval) sooner rather than later.

[JustinW]

Bayou is a good option (try their hot chocolate – high impact!), and usually District Taco has a cart outside that features yummy breakfast burritos. I’m trying to figure out which option is best for me to use to “incentivize” my daughter to attend the Board meeting as well….

[JustinW]

@Tim Kelley 14478 wrote:

That looks like Ohio Drive or Hains Point across the river to me…

Yep, MVT looking east from a few hundred yards south of the Memorial Bridge. Hard to tell, but a number of the geese in the picture were actually mooning the camera…

[JustinW]

@Dirt 14464 wrote:

You look much taller in that photo.

. Yes, and not so squat either…..

MVT is correct, but at what location?

[JustinW]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]743[/ATTACH] Hopefully this is not too generic or inscrutable….and it sorta adheres to the rule that a bike should be in the picture.

[JustinW]

I hear ya on the hour-of-day-on-a-Saturday issue.

The LBP part should be covered in the public comment period that starts @ 8:30am. All of the lovely items (1-23) on the agenda are part of the Consent Items period that starts @ 9am.

[JustinW]

Huzzah – the lights in the underpass are on again! Thanks for the reporting of the issue, DBB – looks like you have the touch.

Interestingly, or really, sadly, 3 of the 11 lights are out at this point, with at least one missing its cover and possibly vandalized (I did not slow down to look). I wonder if there are any more resilient light fixtures that could be used there.

[JustinW]

While the first phase of the park is done, there is a drive to “Complete & Connect” the park. Complete refers to adding more facilities (the sports center and another field), and connect refers to connecting the park to the existing MVT via paths and a bridge.

A make-or-break decision by the Arlington County Board regarding funding to “Complete and connect” Long Bridge Park is imminent. The “Friends of Long Bridge Park” group has been urging the Board to develop a plan to finish all the planned elements of the park, including connecting the Esplanade to the Mt. Vernon bike trail via a bridge across the GW parkway.

Broad public support is the most important key to convincing the Board to include the needed funding this year You can help. Please join the other park constituencies in a mass showing at the next Arlington County Board meeting this Saturday, Feb 11, starting promptly at 8:30 am in the County Board room (third floor of the County office building – 2100 Clarendon Blvd. – free parking – for both cars *and* bikes – in the basement).

Please show up just before 8:30 wearing your biking gear and/or carrying your helmet. This agenda item should be completed in about 30 minutes, so afterwards you can go enjoy the Farmers’ Market in the building’s parking lot outside.

Please show up and help support the continued progress at Long Bridge!

[JustinW]

Nope, no mirrors available at this point. Those ( and speed bumps … JOKING) would likely help. I have also done the “warming bell” thing but that seems to work inconsistently.

[JustinW]

Doubt that all are controlled / connected to one switch or circuit, but the lights are out further east along the trail (in underpasses) as well….

Or, are they all controlled by that high tech device, the Clapper? I should have tested…

[JustinW]

Isn’t that a new underpass … Under the MVT… leading to the Columbia (?) marina? I think that is what it is called…right near the Humpback Bridge.

[JustinW]

Hey kids,

Something is up. Either the lights in this tunnel / underpass are on a daylight-sensing timer thingie, or they are *all out again*. Urghh. Please tell me it is the former. If the latter, time to ring VDOT again and beg for their intervention….

[JustinW]

Yeah that was likely the same thing. 3 cyclists in total were affected (one in a very minor way), and three others stopped to check on the injured. While the positioning of the affected cyclists was not ideal, enough of us had on bright clothing and kept checking the approaches to the degree possible.

Worst part – two people called 911, and in neither case could the dispatcher figure out where the heck we were. I wonder if they have any guidance when it comes to bikepaths, locations on bikepaths and access to those paths from roadways.

[JustinW]

Wrap the spillage item well, and plop it on top of a mush-able set of clothes that you’d normally take. The clothes can serve as a flatter, more level surface to carry stuff with.

Learned thru trial and error, of course. One pannier still offers a hint of curry at times….

[JustinW]

“VDOT has permits into itself…” — ouch, sounds painful.

Any timetable offered?

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