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2/13/2022 Hill fort

I mean I live in friggin Fort Ward Heights, right? I’ve climbed that hill, on bike or on foot, a thousand times. I’ve stood at the entrance collecting signatures for a road diet.
Way back in the 90s we held birthday parties for POTM at the playground there. Of course this is my entry.

Ladies and gentlemen. Fort Ward, Alexandria, Virginia.

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@accordioneur 216253 wrote:

It is named in honor of the local citizens whose grassroots efforts resulted in the building of the bridge, which seems to meet the current requirement of “substantial contributions to the regional park system.” Also, as you point out, the rules might have been different 30 years ago.

Hmm. The vast majority of “citizens” did nothing for the building of the bridge, and if it was like any other local issue around here, some citizens probably opposed it. I guess that’s the problem with a generic kind of name.

I mean I’d guess that encouraging people to ride, improving the local bike culture, etc, also is a contribution to the regional park system.

There appear to be two Alexandria reps on the NVRPA board, Scott Price and Sean Kumar. I suppose I could contact them to make my case.

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Oy vey. Somehow Citizens bridge got it’s name. Long ago and grandfathered in?

Thanks for researching.

Should we perhaps contact our local jurisdictions’ reps on the NVRPA board?

Of course I still like the bench idea

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Oy vey. Somehow Citizens bridge got it’s name. Long ago and grandfathered in?

Thanks for researching.

Should we perhaps contact our local jurisdictions’ reps on the NVRPA board?

Of course I still like the bench idea.

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@CaseyKane50 216174 wrote:

Ken,

Not sure where your sign was located, but I noticed a number of those signs along the new 15th Street protected bike lanes today. They were at both controlled and uncontrolled crosswalks. I am guessing they are a reminder for people biking to watch out for and yield to people walking in the crosswalks.

They are all along the new PBL’s on New Jersey Aveue SE, between Eye Street and M Street. They may well be simple reminders, with no added legal meaning (my case C) whether prompted by someone’s complaint as MStone suggests, or not.

It still seems odd to me to add such a reminder, when there is already a stop sign, and when ALL vehicles must watch out for and yield to peds in crosswalks (in fact to stop for them, IIUC DC law correctly) but I can understand the reason, and I don’t object. Just found it notable.

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As discussed above, the name “Jehovah” is actually based on a misunderstanding of the reason behind the way traditional Jewish texts vowelized the four letter name of God (biblical Hebrew, like other semitic languages, does not have vowels, the reader is expected to know them from context, but when Hebrew ceased to be a spoken language* it was necessary to add them) which is to remind the reader to pronounce the word adonai, instead of attempting to pronounce the sacred name. Adonai means “lord” so this fits.

Sorry, Witnesses.

Jehovah’s Witnesses church, Commonwealth Avenue, Alexandria (and yeah, they are one reason the bike lane gap was not filled) (and yeah, the third language on that sign is Amharic, which is also a semitic language – however I cannot read a letter of it, and cannot tell you anything more about it)

*some claim Hebrew never ceased to be a spoken language, as Jews from different countries who had no other common language used it to communicate when they encountered each other – rather it ceased to be a “cradle tongue” from roughly 100 of the Common Era, until the Hebrew language revival at the end of the 19th century – but same difference here, most Jews needed vowels to read Hebrew without great effort

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I don’t intend to use every place with the name MARKet, but since I happened to be there for a bike event I figured I’d go for it

Market 2 Market, in Del Ray

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#publicartfinder

This work, honoring Alexandria’s historic African American community, was originally at Waterfront park, but is now located near Jefferson Houston school, close to the Cameron Street bike lane

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Nancy Reagan, along with her husband, visited Christ Church, Alexandria, on the 250th anniversary of the birth of George Washington

I had a really nice chat with the docent

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The Washington Fish Market, or what’s left of it (I didn’t take a picture of sign, so this won’t work for the name game, maybe next week)

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@Steve O 216089 wrote:

Yikes! Remind me not to be born under that sign.

Well there go MY career plans.

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2/8/2022

Aquarius is the water carrier. Here’s a pipe that carries water at the Arlington wastewater treatment plant, to which water is carried.

Am I doing this right?

Btw, I was born under the sign of aquarius as well. Should I post a selfie from this morning?

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This is public art? About love? About love for dogs? Along 4MRT, near the Shirlington dog park.

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Bear with me, this one is going to be long. (Also I assume a graffiti is acceptable? It’s been there awhile, and I swear I didn’t put it there)

So this is the yod – hay – vov – hay. The tetragrammaton. The four letter Hebrew name of God.

At least by the second Temple era pronouncing it was taboo. It was only spoken by the high priest on Yom Kippur. It is said the pronunciation is forgotten (though based on elements found in other Hebrew names, etc, scholars believe it was pronounced “yahweh”)

Given the taboo, Jews have pronounced it “adonai” , which is Hebrew for my lord, (from adon, lord, nobleman). Thus why it fits this thread. It has traditionally been translated as “lord” though many recent translations use alternatives like sovereign or infinite.

As an aside, in Hebrew texts the four letters are usually given the vowels that go with adonai, as a reminder to the reader to substitute that euphemism for the taboo name. By a misunderstanding, some 16th century protestants, reading hebrew texts, thought this was the way the name was pronounced so they read it as Jehovah. Not a name Jews had ever used.

As another aside, most Orthodox and some other Jews will not say “adonai ” outside prayer. They will instead say “hashem” (“the name”). A euphemism for a euphemism.

In fact some Jews will not write “God” in English, but write G-d instead. This has been condemned as silly on “Surely this Will Save Conservative Judaism” (one of two “Jewbook” groups I follow – the other being JUMTOT – Jewish Urbanist Memes for Transit Oriented Teens – both are mostly snark, and the latter has more bike focused content)

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This is the simpler one from today’s ride. Otis Street, NE (alongside Otis Street NW, not pictured here) is the closest I can come in this region to Notis. We shall see if the judges allow it ��

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