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As usual this is smack dab in the middle of TRB. I will be there, probably in a suit and tie, arriving by metro.

Thanks to the organizers – I know its hard meeting everyone’s parameters.

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The segments have been selected.

EB segment is called “The Battle of Alexandria” It goes from Howard to Fort Williams (I might have preferred all the way to Quaker, but those who don’t like the gap at Fort Williams, or just want to ride down Fort Williams, can get credit for your rides.) (Thanks to Casey for pointing this segment out)

WB segment is called “If I die here, name the bike lanes for me” It goes from Quaker (so you pretty much have to start on Janney’s) to just past Chapel Hill. It was obviously created before the reconfiguration was implemented. Some creative, passionate, and slightly morbid person must have created it.

I did not see another WB segment that covered the whole stretch better (there is one that goes all the way up Howard to Braddock, but that’s too far) I don’t care to set up new segments. If anyone has suggestions for a different one to use, WB or EB, that I somehow missed, let me know.

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@drevil 195219 wrote:

I saw this. Is it the officially oh-fish-all list?
https://freezingsaddles.org/people/

I don’t seem to be on that, and I thought I did all the steps to register? (btw, I’m IN)

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@secstate 195040 wrote:

Just to continue with my annoyance with this sort of journalism, if we assume this is based on four full years of data, that’s 1460 days. So, about 8 trips a day, split over three roads.

How many individual women riders are we talking about in this dataset? If it’s a small number, then a shift in behavior for any reason by even a few riders will translate into big effects over time in the dataset. It’s really hard to attribute that to infrastructure change as opposed to some idiosyncratic factor affecting those individual riders’ habits. If it’s a larger number, then we just have to hope that women Strava users in Queens are somehow representative of the overall behavior of women cyclists.

Sorry to harp on this, but these sorts of issues of basic transparency are really common in data journalism.

I would not assume that the typical Strava user actually rides 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. So I think its probably more riders than are implied above.

As for typicality, yeah we don’t know, but I would be surprised if Strava users are MORE inclined to be drawn to PBLs than non-Strava users.

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@accordioneur 195033 wrote:

I do not understand this statement when the map you included in the very same post shows the route to take Columbia St. around Banneker Park.

I am guessing he means Roosevelt to Columbia vs Van Buren to Columbia.

#PresidentsfromNewYork

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@josh 194962 wrote:

Hey everyone! I did BAFS for the first team two years ago in 2018 and it was awesome. I ride my bike(s) a lot more now, and I’ve met a bunch of people.

If you’re new to the forums, you can get your required first post here, so you don’t need to open up a new thread. If you’re not new, still feel free to let people know a bit about you (if you’d like).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM7XBWbi9AA

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@Steve O 194936 wrote:

Yes. Or carry.

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Or portage one way or another.
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https://www.strava.com/activities/476746067

If you take your bike on metro that does NOT count, though there was a pointless prize for that last year.

A pointless prize for ferry rides would be amusing if anyone wants to do that.

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@SarahBee 194935 wrote:

What’s the wrong side?

Are you going upstream or downstream?

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I always ride on the correct side of the river. East side when riding upstream, and west side when riding downstream. I wouldn’t want to salmon on the Potomac.

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It was my favorite place at the Wharf. I took my bike in for substantial repairs after it was damaged in my (keneinehara) only collision. I went a couple of times for coffee, but several times for happy hour or for an afternoon snack. I guess DC is not at a point where an (essentially) non driveable hardware store can make a go of it and a lot of their space was the hardware store. I wonder if they would have done better in NoVa (where Crystal City/Pentagon city lacks a bike shop, and I think a hardware store, and there are not too many cozy hangouts either) but they tried to stay DISTRICT hardware, I guess. I will miss it for sure.

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@Riley Casey 194524 wrote:

As much as I liked the Jump bikes ( before Uber bought them ) I suspect that the viability of rental E bikes is limited. The bikes require too much hands on care in charging and maintenance to be sustainable. Even worse in the long run is that someone will sooner or later realize that the external plastic battery packs are worth about $500 and vandalism / theft will likely go much higher than the kids hot-wiring a couple of scooters phenomena. This grousing is more about seeing CaBi put more resources in to filling in the blanks in their current dock locations. Large parts of the city and close in burbs are underserved by CaBi as it is.

The locations are determined and the stations installed by the jurisdictions. There have been delays in NoVa as the locales wrestle with VDOT (funding pass through) interpretation of fed mandated procurement regs.

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I ride on Eye Street to Navy Yard area. A few months ago when construction on a new building made EB Eye Steet SE impassable, I tried going Maine to the trail to the Titanic Memorial, to P Street to PBL on 2nd to PBL on R to Potomac Avenue. Saw people going to and from Douglass (I have ridden that on weekends, but not lately) After a few weeks Eye reopened and I have gone back to that route.

I really liked the PBLs, hope they are restored to good maintenance.

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So. trails.

In my City we got a trail, it’s called the Holmes Run Trail. Multiple “temporary” detours. Some with no plans or funding in place to fix. IF we had huge numbers of ebikers relying on it, maybe the City would not let this languish?

Maybe the bike lanes on Seminary would be so full of riders even the most blinkered NIMBY couldn’t say “but I don’t see anyone riding there”.

At some point, screw the Mount Vernon Trail (sorry Judd, et al, you know what I mean) and the Custis . Everything else in the region is just as, if not more, important. Bring on the Ebikes! MORE. NOW.

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@scoot 194173 wrote:

I don’t have the data at hand, but the urban cyclist fatalities surely do not contain the same fraction of “motorist overtaking bicyclist, non-intersection” as the rural ones do.

I don’t have that data either, which is why I merely pointed out that most of the fatalities are urban, in response to a question on that.

Since overtaking fatalities are 25% of all bike fatalities, and rural fatalities are 30% of all bike fatalities it is POSSIBLE that there are no overtaking fatalities in urban areas. I personally doubt that.

But what I am sure of is that if that is the case, or just that overtaking fatalities are much more common in rural areas, its not because arterials in urban areas (which note, in terms of NTSB data, includes suburban areas) are always 25MPH.

I also note that one prominent local cyclist stopped riding to school with his kid on R Street in Shaw after being buzzed repeatedly and aggressively by trucks. That’s a 25MPH zone, quite urban, where bike advocates have called for changing the door zone bike lane to a PBL.

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I still think though that whatever the NHTSA data on urban vs rural fatalities, its useful for people who support safer biking in our region to be aware of the actual existence of numerous arterials in non rural parts of the region with speed limits over 25MPH. Its useful background to any kind of bike advocacy.

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