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There are situations where it is not even possible to produce a vocal warning audible at 100 feet. Consider a loud environment (like the 14th Street Bridge) on a day with a strong headwind.

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@Steve O 201800 wrote:

Coming from Roosevelt Island direction makes for a long backtrack.

Needs signage all the way back at IOD. TR Bridge is the only legal trail access point between there and Mem Bridge. A diversion across the TR Bridge would lengthen the necessary detour, even if measured starting from Trollheim.

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Gallows is the obvious alternative to replace most trips currently using Cedar. But if your origin and/or destination are already a bit west of the Cedar bridge (e.g. riding from Villa Lee Park to Whole Foods), you might choose the western route. If so, consider crossing at Vaden. It’s not much further, and it avoids the worst aspects of the Nutley crossing (freeway ramps and poor sidewalk).

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Many summaries of this story are omitting the fact that the long distances being reported from the simulation specifically apply to following directly in someone else’s slipstream (i.e. where you’re constantly interacting with the same air mass that another person is vacating a few seconds previous).

Consider the difference of the experience of walking twenty feet behind someone who is smoking, vs. passing them off the side at twenty feet. What does that tell you about atmospheric dynamics in general? Regardless of the validity of the report, there is certainly a large directional factor at play.

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“The primary cause of death appears to be the bullets not staying in Mr. Behler’s gun, police say”.

Suspect? Let’s not jump to conclusions! FTFY.

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@Relwal Noj 198955 wrote:

I was really disappointed with the Bike Angel system. A few months ago, I had an issue where there are two stations located 425′ apart in Courthouse. The one had no bikes and the other was full. So I took a bike from the full station to the station without any bikes and got like 2 or 3 points. Then, I walked back to the station with bikes and tried to do it again, but it wouldn’t let me take a bike out. I got really stressed out because I thought may be I had incorrectly docked the bike at the empty station and so I sprinted back to that station, but found that the bike was correctly docked. I concluded that you basically aren’t allowed to take consecutive bikes out of the same station unless you wait a certain period of time.

I have executed this same exact maneuver on multiple occasions and have never had a problem. After you have moved a few bikes to partially rebalance the system, the angel points do get reduced for subsequent laps, but this has never resulted in a service denial.

However, I have experienced temporary service denials with CaBi that are unrelated to Bike Angels. Occasionally a station goes offline and fails to report a docked bike to the system while incommunicado. If so, you will get blocked from taking another bike. When this has occurred, I have always been able to call CaBi customer service, explain the situation, and they immediately unfreeze my account to allow another bike checkout on the spot. Perhaps this situation is what happened to you?

Rebalancing laps can be a fun way to earn a few angel points when you happen to have some extra time and want to get some multimodal exercise. I’ve found Courthouse to be a great spot for it because bikes will often accumulate at some stations just a few blocks from other empty stations. Unsurprisingly, the full stations are always at lower elevations than the empty ones, so you will be jogging downhill and riding uphill. Typical example: empty docks at the county courthouse building, with full docks at 15th and Scott.

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@n18 198553 wrote:

Some people with older phones may have trouble with some sites, so they can’t click on links, so a summary is helpful.

Solution: If you are away from your computer, you should be riding your bike rather than attempting to browse an internet forum.

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@josh 197973 wrote:

Yes, I hate it when people salmon in protected bike lanes.

I encounter this very often, especially late evenings. The two most frequent problem areas in my experience have been eastbound bikes and scooters in the PBLs on M St (West End) and Wilson Blvd (downhill from Courthouse to Rhodes).

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Reducing westbound vehicle capacity at the Glebe/Glebe intersection would be a tough sell, since auto traffic often stacks over that bridge. But only one vehicle at a time can ever legally enter the bridge eastbound. So it should be possible to remove the extra lane up until Valley and repurpose the space for bike lanes.

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@arlcxrider 196778 wrote:

Going down from P St, the ramp can be a little bit of a white-knuckle experience if you’re on it during the evening rush contraflow period. Essentially you’re playing chicken with oncoming northbound traffic coming off the Parkway. Drivers aren’t expecting cyclists.

Great point.

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Sightlines of the crosswalk aren’t great for drivers entering that ramp from the north. Nor for drivers coming down the hill trying to catch RCP southbound. And those downhill drivers sometimes block the crosswalk.

But the ramp itself is fine. I’ve ridden it many times to connect between the RCP trail and the neighborhood.

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This could create an opportunity for data collection regarding the impact of a potential road diet or bus lane on Columbia Pike. Since the closures will be in place for many months, we can observe what choices travelers are making to adapt.

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/04/what-happened-to-atlantas-carmageddon/521805/

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This one is from Ballston on Saturday afternoon:

Me: preparing to turn right from westbound 5th Rd N onto northbound Quincy
You: two pedestrians half a block north, walking in the Quincy St bike lane towards me
Me: seeing you, and no traffic, I choose to turn into the general lane rather than the bike lane
One of you: now on the edge of the general lane, as both of you prepare to enter your parked SUV
You: “there’s a bike lane over there” (while I’m passing)
Me: imaginary facepalm, saying nothing

For the record, I have no complaints with peds using the bike lane there, especially with construction eliminating the sidewalk. And as usual, there were two vehicles blocking the bike lane on the block north of Wilson anyway.

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@huskerdont 195200 wrote:

And don’t let’s get overconfident. People still routinely ignore the no-turn-on-red signs, both here and at Ft. Myer. Oak is arguably worse though because of the lack of a sightline and the increased speed potential from the downhill.

Right-turning drivers have a tendency to assume that they too can go whenever they see a green light to go straight. I’ve seen a lot of drivers run reds under similar circumstances at 22nd & M, Duke & W Taylor Run, Calvert & Connecticut, etc.

From a legal perspective the new design is great, since it removes all doubt about right-of-way. But I certainly wouldn’t advise lowering one’s guard; I’d expect poor compliance from drivers here too.

(Counter-argument: There is reason to believe that drivers might obey this one better than the other examples. Since the location off Oak Street is both residential and doesn’t attract cut-through traffic, likely a larger fraction of the drivers turning here will be regulars who will have become familiar with this intersection dynamic.)

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@mstone 195074 wrote:

I’m amazed at how much more honking I hear when I’m riding with my wife, on the same roads riding the same way. People suck.

In case I was at all unclear, I have no doubt that drivers may in fact behave more hostile and dangerous around female cyclists. My objection was only with journalists’ assertion that the study I referenced constituted supporting evidence for said disparity.

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