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I second the Tulane Drive option. Used it myself during the Wilson Bridge project. If you use this option, please don’t park directly opposite the driveways. (I was asked this by a homeowner.) There is plenty of room to avoid doing so.

Belle Haven Park has signs explicitly banning commuter parking. How they know you are a commuter is beyond me.

Hains Point was also an option I used. Drive to the point and back. Park on the river side. There were no meters there during the Hains Point 100.

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Back when I was a long distance runner, I had to have a physical for grad school. My dad did it. He was an MD. Took my pulse once. Shook his head. Took it again. Shook his head. I said “It’s okay. 48 is normal for runners.”

It rose after I stopped running but it’s back in the 40s again. When I had my colonoscopy, they gave me a shot to raise my heart rate to give the anesthesiologist some margin for error.

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No I am not but feel free to post.

Keep in mind that the injured party was from out of town. He came upon an island and two yellow boxes. He had no way of knowing there was a metal bar rising from the pavement. Those of us familiar with this device at least know a metal bar is somehow involved in the design.

Also, I think the original intent was to use the underside of the bridge for city employee parking. That never happened. The design suggests there would be a two way traffic flow. It only needs to be one lane wide given its current use.

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Just distortion from the photo. When it is the up position, it’s clearly visible. But if you don’t know it’s there and it’s in the down position, you could end up running into it if it starts to come up. It’s not a very good design. And based on the amount of maintenance it requires, it’s costly too. And why does the entrance to the underside of the bridge need to be two-lanes.

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Okay for Idaho you got the BoDeans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dXpqRhBg2I
Or B52s Private Idaho: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtTVyb0qU90
For Maryland you could go with Mary Prankster’s Blue Skies over Dundalk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgl08LZQ3EA

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Or you could make it easy on yourself with “I’ve Been Everywhere” Tom T Hall or Johnny Cash

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I knew you’d ride. Resistance is futile. Be prepared for a long day. Stop signs and traffic lights slow everyone down. A lot.

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I think if you buy a season pass (or a lifetime pass) you can get four people in on one admission. If you go often, this is a pretty good work around.

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You are so diligent Ted. I have never ridden 50 States with an official marshal. Did it one year following Eric Guilliland (sp?). Didn’t have to look at my cue sheet for 20 miles. (Then I lost track of him.) Michael B. of Friday Coffee Club was awesome in 2014. Also, not official. Knows the city cold.

One bit of advice. If you’re going to be a marshal, don’t cluster with the other marshals. (Unless they need some help.) Defeats the purpose.

Also if you see an old guy on a Cross Check with a massive saddle bag, fumbling with and cursing at the cue sheet leave him alone to his misery. He (i.e., I) has done this a few times. He deserves no help or pity.

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The ONLY way to see the city. Just do it. It takes all day. It’s hard. It’s worth the effort. Plus you get to go the pizza and beer party at the finish with a couple hundred other bicycling nuts who did the ride (or parts of it, then quit and rode to the party like a bunch of pathetic losers)

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This has been going on for the last couple of months. Bobco85 is right. The glass is nearly always on one of the trail bridges or underpasses where glass can be smashed against a wall. I don’t know if someone is throwing the bottles out of a car. Hitting the bridges on the fly would be hard to do. I don’t know if it’s a coincidence but I saw two bicyclists fixing flats this morning.

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Morningside is another wonderful Virginia suburban road with a ditch for a shoulder. You have to take the lane.

The honking thing is pretty common down in Mount Vernon. I attribute this to the fact that Mount Vernon has more elderly people than any other part of the DC area. They freak out seeing bicycles (or anything other than a car in the street) and lay on their horns. Eldery drivers have slower reaction times, and often have compromised vision. I’m 61 and have had 7 eye operations. I speak from personal experience. (Also, I am a former Boston cabbie. GET OUT OF MY WAY.) I get honled at on Collingwood Road a lot for no reason other than the driver has competence issues.

Cars these days are cocoons of quiet. Drivers often cannot tell how loud their horns are. I really wish they’d make a law that made horns sound inside the car. This would cut down on a lot of this nonsense.

My wife was run over on Sherwood Hall Lane. At noon. On a clear day. By an SUV driver who ran a stop sign around a stopped car. He was in a hurry to pick up his daughter at a game of some sort.

Long story short: despite living next to one of the most heavily used trails in the country, the drivers of Mount Vernon still don’t get bicycles as transportation. Be careful out there.

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I ride through tunnels whenever it feels safe. It’s probably safer than going around a traffic circle.

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This is not an argument. This is abuse.

Oh,…, you want the MVT for an argument.

Very well.

Silly bunt.

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Now that I think about it, the next cyclist who passes me and calls me “Sir” is askin’ for it. (Except I couldn’t catch them if my life depended on it.)

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