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lordofthemarkParticipantAnd EB Eye Street from Half to First street SE is now open again!
lordofthemarkParticipantA reminder again about the poll – plus, as noted, T&ES will be presenting results to Council this Wednesday, and its possible there will be a bill introduced to reverse the changes.
Highlights of the City staff presentation include the following:
1. Traffic analysis indicates that Seminary Road is working about as well as it did before (or better) on average. During a 15-minute period in the morning, west bound traffic experiences a delay of up to about a minute, on mid-week days (Tues., Wed., and Thurs.)
2. There has been one reportable traffic crash since implementation (30 Oct), compared to 2-1-0-2 crashes in the comparable periods in the last four years
3. Both AFD and APD agree that appropriate measures have been put in place for emergency responders to safely travel before, during and after an emergency call
If you live in Alexandria, please also consider contacting Council members before Tuesday to share your positive experiences with Seminary Road and ask that the road be left as is. You can contact the Mayor and Council members via this link: http://bit.ly/MayorandCouncil
lordofthemarkParticipantBeerneuring #9 Astro Lab
So this is sort of the opposite bike conditions – its in a less bikeable part of DTSS, and is right on Georgia Avenue which had lots of riders, all taking the sidewalk. But there were nice progressive bike racks right in front – yay!
Supergroove, a New England IPA
Quite hazy, big white head. Aroma is lots of tropical fruit. Mango, touchvof citrus. Taste is soft, fruity, specialty sweetness. Pleasant, not super complex, though some interesting notes on the finish.
Peekaboo Mosaic – an IPA
Pours hazy yellow, thin white head. Aroma is subtly dank,range of fruit and pine notes. Not sure I can recognize passionfruit. Taste has some bitterness, some grapefruit, some softer tropical notes. More of a middle of the road IPA.
I forgot to take a picture. Since I am not going to win anyway, ¯_(ツ)_/¯ I am still going to number this as my ninth brewery, and will number my tennext (where I hope to remember to take a pic) as ten.
lordofthemarkParticipantBeerneuring #8 Silver Branch
Well this one was an interesting ride. Riding north through DC is always interesting (I did 15th to W to 11th to Kansas to 3rd) Managed to get to a couple of Our Streets reports in, including the jackpot, a car parked in the 15th street cycle track. Getting from 3rd and Blair to DTSS is always “interesting”. DTSS itself has been transformed in terms of bike infra since I was last there – I rode the Cedar/Spring and Second Avenue PBLs, and got to experience the protected intersection – in fact I couldn’t resist riding around it a couple of times.
Silver Branch was fine. Service was more “eager” than I’m used to at microbreweries. Sadly for a place with such an excellent bike infra location (across the street from the second avenue PBL) there was no bike parking I could find so I locked to a fence.
Sacred Table, a Belgian Single
Clear dark straw, nice white head. Belgian yeast. clove, lightly fruity, maybe a hint of banana or plantain. Taste is soft, a bit of tang after the spice, some malt. Smooth and very pleasant
Chronicle. A stout (they call it a tropical stout)
Pours nearly black, medium brown head. Aroma is light mocha, leaning to espresso, touch of plum? Cocoa much stronger on the taste. Fairly one note, but pleasant enough. Very smooth creamy mouthfeel.
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lordofthemarkParticipantFebruary 5, 2020 at 8:48 pm in reply to: Freezing Saddles Side Game – What day is it?? (#nationalday) #1104256lordofthemarkParticipant@Steve O 197988 wrote:
Upcoming national days
February 5 (today)
National Girls and Women in Sports Day
National Shower with a Friend Day
National Weatherperson’s DayThursday, February 6
National Frozen Yogurt Day
National Lame Duck DayFriday, February 7
Bubble Gum Day
National Fettuccine Alfredo Day
National Periodic Table Day
National Send a Card to a Friend Day
National Wear Red DaySat., February 8
National Boy Scouts Day
National Kite Flying Day
National Iowa DaySunday, February 9
National Cut the Cord Day
National Bagel and Lox Day
National Pizza Day
National Toothache DayI definitely look foward to national frozen duck day, and national cut the bagel day (though I may want to keep QOTM away from that) National FrozenBagelDay could segue nicely into National Toothache Day, which could also match well with NationalIowaResults day.
lordofthemarkParticipantBeerneuring #7 Ornery Beer company
Just across Old Town Fairfax. This was a fancy brewpub. Still no bike parking though.
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Austrian Dreams Vienna LagerNice clear coppery amber off white head. Quite malty, bit of caramel, bit of hops..Fairly light, crisp. Not quite as good as big craft amber lagers. But ok.
Flanders Folly Saison
Clear gold shading to orange. White head. Peppery grassy aroma, not much funk. More barnyard on the taste, tart. Light mouthfeel. Somehow doesn’t come together right for me.
Pacific Waves IPA
Beautiful clear dark orange, gold. Pretty beer. Aroma is sharp pine, then citrus. Pretty similar taste. with malt apparent. Pretty decent classic west coast IPA, with lots of C hops.
Lord Vader’s Imperial Stout
Nearly black. Aroma is a little odd, more dark fruit than cocoa. Some dark chocolate. Think a dark chocolate bar with a fruit filling. Taste is more chocolate, a bit of coffee. Definitely sweet. Alcohol hidden behind the sweet chocolate flavor.
lordofthemarkParticipant@reji 197834 wrote:
Feb 1 at Granite City. Got the Wicked, an unfiltered IPA. Not a fan. Too hoppy and a weird tangy finish. Not gonna finish this one.
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lordofthemarkParticipantBeerneuring #6, Chubby Squirrel
Sigh. I took the scenic route. Lake Barcroft to FFX cty Holmes Run Trail. I’ve kvetched before about wayfinding on FFX Cty trails. Interesting to see a few short stretches of trail beautifully paved. Of course gravel fans and some runners won’t like that, I guess. The Gallows crossing at Holmes Run Drive continues to be terrible. I forgot about it and followed the Google directions to it. Next time I’ll figure out a better crossing. The new underpass at Pickett in City of Fairfax made me happy.
Oh yeah, the brewery. Just another suburban shopping center storefront. No bike parking.
Chubby Squirrel Hefeweizen
slightly hazy yellow, thin white head. Aroma has strong banana kick. Taste does have some lemon, then smooth, clove banana typical hefe notes. A bit heavier creamier mouthfeel than I usually expect in a hefe. Not bad.
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lordofthemarkParticipant@SpaceJockey 197783 wrote:
Considering drivers knock down lamp-posts on the sidewalks all the time I doubt that lamp-posts built in the middle of the road will have any chance at survival.
I don’t think the alternative is to put it in the middle of the road, but rather at the edge of the sidewalk, adjacent to the road. Where I live (and in many other places) the pole is in the middle of the sidewalk – rendering it inconvenient for walkers (and in some places where there is no decent in road alt, for riders) and useless for anyone in a wheelchair.
No ADA compliance for YOU!
But at least we have an ADA compliant curb cut – leading to the non compliant sidewalk, and the bus stops that someone in a wheelchair can’t get to!
We also refrain from putting up jersey walls (even plastic) to protect sidewalks in certain locations, because of the possibility a driver would hit the end of the end of the jersey wall.
lordofthemarkParticipant@Hancockbs 197775 wrote:
Okay, you guys convinced me and you win. The nexus between a hidden landmine (or bear trap) that is designed to kill by kinetically exploding and a clearly visible static bollard is very obvious.
I’ll continue to take as much responsibility as possible for my own safety by paying attention, slowing when needed, and having an escape plan when things go wrong. You can do whatever it is you want to do and blame the bollard after you hit it.
Best wishes for a safe ride for all of us.
Have you ever ridden with me? I absolutely do as much as I can to stay safe, including being alert and slowing when needed (and stopping for signals and stop signs many riders ignore).
I ALSO want safer bike infrastructure, including removal of unneeded bollards, because I don’t think death should be the punishment for a rider’s mistake, even if they are less careful than I am. And yes, I apply that to walkers and drivers as well.
This is why I reacted so forcefully to the earlier comment. I strongly believe that making excuses for poor infrastructure, and blaming walkers and riders for errors when perfectly reasonable infra would have saved them, is despicable and way too much part of our discourse on safety.
lordofthemarkParticipant@Hancockbs 197735 wrote:
Against my better judgement, I’ll continue the conversation. To say that the bollard caused your death in that case would be inaccurate IMO. The bollard contributed to your death, certainly, but I would say the cause was closer to you not stopping to put away the ID and cord, thereby causing the hazard that resulted in your death by hitting the bollard. Perhaps that is semantics, but I prefer to “blame” the action rather than the inanimate and non-moving object.
Except that what actually happened was that despite my error, I did not die, because no one insanely placed a bollard there.
The point is that humans make mistakes. Setting things up so that a mistake is fatal is killing them.
lordofthemarkParticipant@Hancockbs 197738 wrote:
“something similar” is a specific conclusion? The bollard in and of itself, nor its placement alone could possibly cause a death. Unless the bollard was somehow launched at the rider, he had to be moving toward it, fall on it, or something similar to result in a death. Lack of the person hitting the bollard or the bollard hitting the person, with some velocity, there is no possible outcome of death.
A bike trail without bike riders moving on it is sort of a useless bike trail, IMO.
lordofthemarkParticipant@Hancockbs 197737 wrote:
Now you’ve gone to completely different issues. I could argue the gun did not kill the person in your scenario, as a gun can’t do anything by itself (much like a bollard), but that’s a totally different argument. I will say that in all of these stated cases, you are providing an action by another party that caused a death. I’m fine with contributing the death to an action and/or the person generating the action, be that the party who died or the party that caused their death. I’m not okay with contributing the death to a non-moving inanimate object. If someone crashed and hit their head on the ground, you might contend the ground caused their death. I would not.
The headline says the bollard PLACEMENT caused the death. IE a human action. To place a non moving inanimate object in a dangerous spot. Instead of guns, would you prefer land mines? If many people walked through a minefield and survived, and one person was killed, would you say they were not killed by the mine? Would you quibble over minefield placement? Or would you deny that it was the minefield at all, because so many survived it?
lordofthemarkParticipant@Hancockbs 197614 wrote:
We are obviously at odds over the statement and interpretation of events here, so I’ll make this my last attempt to get my pure point across. One last time, ALL I am advocating for is stating known facts in cases such as this. If you really believe that the placement of the bollard killed the cyclist, then we have nothing to discuss. I believe you’re wrong and we’ll just have to go our separate ways. If the placement of the bollard killed the cyclist, then how come tens or hundreds of more cyclist aren’t dead from the same bollard?
Someone shoots a gun, firing 30 bullets towards a crowd at some distance. Only two people are hit, one is killed. IMO its correct to say that the gun killed the person, even though most were not killed. Some might have been smart enough to duck, some might have just been lucky.
Heck, we’ve all seen instances where a driver made an improper turn, failed to signal, or sped through a red light. And we avoided a collision by sheer good luck, by hypervigilance, or some combination. Would that mean that when someone IS killed by scofflaw driver, we do not say the scofflaw driver killed them?
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