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Though you do pay (at one did fifteen to twenty years ago) when hiking through the portion AT that goes through Shenandoah NP. So there is precedent (tho not saying it’s right)

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THIS. IS. SOHO!!!

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I have come close, but fortunately not that close, to a deer jumping across Branch Avenue on the downhill stretch between Alabama and Penn

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@lordofthemark 102271 wrote:

It will remain light for the next week, though the contractor expected it to only last one night.

Ah, good ol’ contractor Mac B.

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@dasgeh 102177 wrote:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dr-gridlock/wp/2014/12/16/alternate-routes-on-metro-because-of-delays/

I was disappointed that WaPo didn’t list “take bikeshare” as one of there alternates…

Does anyone know if Cabi increased (or needed to) its bike balancing activities around the core for people using the bikeshare system as a workaround?

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During the Ferguson protest on Monday morning (which was sparsely attended the time they got to Verizon center) several police cars blocked the Penn ave cycle track (by simply parking there and milling about) between 11th and 9th.

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I believe it’s MV Jantzen, who has done a lot of data visualization for CaBi and other things http://www.mvjantzen.com/blog/

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@Steve O 99905 wrote:

Then what are you going to do Saturday at the Plaid Ride?

He was trying to go to the Ludicrous Ride but went too fast.

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@baiskeli 98723 wrote:

As a Bluemont resident, I’m proud to say there’s not much difference sometimes.

’twasn’t always the case http://www.bluemontcivic.org/newsletters/BCA_News_199907.pdf

Quote:

BCA Opposes Bypass Trail Plan
The Bluemont Civic Association voiced its opposition to a proposed bypass bicycle trail before a June 28 hearing of the Arlington County Environment and Energy Conservation Committee. Several years ago, BCA adopted a position opposing the trail as proposed, and the Association maintained that position in the June General Membership meeting.

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http://virginiadot.org/projects/northern%20virginia/default.asp VDOT shows 3 different ‘Route 7 Widening’ projects in Fairfax county – over the Dulles Toll Road, between Rolling Holly Drive & Reston Avenue, and between Reston Avenue & Jarrett Valley Drive (and one in Loudoun, the climbing lane before Hillsboro)

(if anything, I see the portion of Rt 7 in Falls Church City itself being road dieted, though that would deprive the city of its nice little speed trap slush fund from people coming down the hill out of 7 corners)

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There’s so many, they’ve Guamed the cycle track!

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Though how do they handle wheels spinning the opposite direction?

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The devil will be in the details on that one, I think. Ending at Fredrick means a block and a half gap between the project area and the George Mason intersection (and moreover, the Bluemont trail). That gap is also the riskiest place right now because of the commercial corridor on both sides of the street, with specific establishments designed for low dwell time and high turnover (e.g. 7/11, McD’s, gas station, two places that are predominantly take away, heck even the Safeway in its current configuration) – thus above average car crossings. Add a bike lane merge (and sun glare several times a year), and that’s asking for trouble.

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People with WABA t-shirts at the intersection today, thanking people for riding. Also a police officer, who while I was there, pulled over a car that went straight in the leftmost turn lane coming down Lynn.

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@mstone 97642 wrote:

It’s not all that high, because they’re mixed use. But at the point at which you have a souped up bike that maintain 25MPH without effort, why on earth would you be on the trail anyway? There is plenty of road capacity. If this proposed ebiketopia actually happens, the streets will be perfectly safe because of the hoard of ebikers slowing down the cars.

There is no bridge downriver of the Memorial Bridge that is safe for a vehicle that only goes a max of 25 mph and is also prohibited from the side paths. And Memorial is kinda iffy for a vehicle with those attributes as well.

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