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@dasgeh 93429 wrote:

Now I’m confused. The Bluemont Junction to W&OD seems like the least hilly (and almost all downhill) way to get from Ballston to 50. 50 to Ballston, there’s one hill as you leave the W&OD, but I’ve taken Kidical Mass on it just fine…

The hill leaving the W&OD back onto Rt 50 is substantial (because both 4 mile run and Lubber run cut a significant valley right there, and the Greenbrier St trail entrance goes all the way down to creek level with a hairpin curve – though usually with negligible traffic) (but not always)

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Milloy’s been a twit long before Bezos came into the picture. If anything, the WaPo got more bike friendly over the last few years as they have bought out or laid off most of their boomer writers and replaced them with late x’ers and millennials (though a good chunk of these write online only, so the print paper is still a lot of by boomers, for boomers)

(and of course, no offense to boomers, many of which are here. It’s just that the heyday of the Post from the 70s to early 90s was a time when both its staff and target audience were mostly car-centric suburbanites. The people leftover from that era, are well, leftovers).

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still not the greatest fan of the design of M&22nd street intersection. The light placement is not at all intuitive for delivering the message “Right turning cars stop on red arrow”.

(and it doesn’t help if a large truck is blocking the right lane – but not the bike lane, amazingly enough – offloading into Walgreens or wherever it was delivering stuff to at midday today)

The special bike signal at Connecticut is also nice, but with the mess of construction still there, it feels like it is directing bikes to jump right in front of the M street cars that have a (near?) simultaneous green.

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South Capitol is passable (between Firth Sterling & Malcolm X and/or Overlook) , but you gotta have steady nerves. And can really only do it southbound. As mentioned before else where on this forum, the very best way between the Fredrick Douglas (South Capitol) bridge and Blue Plains (and onto Oxon run trail up to National Harbor & Wilson Bridge) is through Bolling, but I’m not sure if one can pass through there with just a picture ID the way one can pass through Ft Meyer.

The other alternative to what TwoWheels says above is to take MLK all the way to Blue Plains Drive. In any case, when traveling from central DC to the Beltway Potomac river crossing, traveling down the DC/Maryland side of the Potomac adds at least one, and on most routes at least two, substantial ridges to the ride.

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I gotta say, I’m curious now if the Hundred Years War has an associated century.

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Mattress (box spring?) on the 14th bridge this morning blocking a little under half the trail.

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@lordofthemark 86168 wrote:

Hmm. Doesn’t sound appetizing. I come from the Eye Street bike lane. I will try the G Street to Bannekar park route instead I think. Haven’t been to Banneker Park in ages, and in Google street view it does NOT look like there is an easy and safe way to get from G Street into the park. Any ideas?

You can dip down to Maine on the east side (of 9th) sidewalk, cross at the intersection (watch for right turning cars from 9th onto Maine that will block the x-walk) then up the (paved) path up to the circle.

(edit for redundancy and lack of reading)

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I seem to remember a year or two ago a story on GGW (probably) about a cyclist who got doored by passenger offloading on the right (but far away from the curb) and the cyclist got a ticket and/or sued (because the passenger got hurt too).

(or was it the taxicab *passenger* that got sued by the cyclist?)

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I dunno, the government agency (natch) I used to work for until last year had plotters for large printouts (e.g. table sized maps)

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Just curious, and trying to remember, when did they build the overpass that connects TR island and Rosslyn? ’87? ’88?

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I remember seeing a similar sign in that vicinity shortly after the that incident occurred asking for witnesses (or else there’s more than one Asian cyclist that runs over people at the serpentine just south of the closed parkway ramp)

There may indeed be some new phase to the litigation (or a deadline approaching) that prompted them to put up a new sign.

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And no Intersection of Doom plan or even contingency?

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@chris_s 85036 wrote:

My money’s on “typo” or “autocorrect”.

“Sir, the bicyclists are revolting”

“You said it, they stink on ice”

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One thing to note, though on 11th street, is that with the freeway construction/de-construction just north of the Navy yard, (between L, K & Eye) the bike lanes go away and the merges can be tricky with plenty of aggressive drivers on that block looking for the freeway onramps

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Is that Williams Gap Road?

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