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It’s complete

https://twitter.com/bikeshare/status/1022156593553727489

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I rode the C&O between Great Falls and Seneca. The part where I had to walk last month has been fixed enough so one can ride. Due to it not being completely smooth, Tuesday’s rain caused some puddles to form. No big problems. It probably was worse yesterday.

I returned over WF, then the W&OD and the MV trail to the 14th St bridge. Big question — when did they turn the portajohns around at the north end of DCA? And why?

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@Steve O 179610 wrote:

If I am moving along, alone in the bike lane–that is, no adjoining traffic moving with me–and I suspect a vehicle is going to turn left in front of me, I move into the middle of the travel lane for this very reason. That’s where they are looking, not in the bike lane. If there is adjoining traffic, then they are protecting me from the left turner; no worries. I like having cars moving with me through intersections because of the protection from left turners that they provide.

That is assuming that the traffic moving with you doesn’t suddenly turn to the right.

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@bentbike33 179502 wrote:

The rebuild of the bridge over Four Mile Run at Van Buren St. in Falls Church looks to be all finished, but the roadblocks remain. Any idea when it will open up for traffic again?

It was open today, and I rode across it.

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@consularrider 179053 wrote:

Do you like Fachwerk villages? Babenhausen, Hessen on the R4 cycle route was pretty neat although in pretty boring flat farm fields topography.

I have enjoyed your videos and pictures from the Frankfurt area. Just curious, since you got to Babenhausen, have you crossed the Bavarian border to Aschaffenburg where my mother was born? I have been there several times but never by bike. My father was from Frankfurt.

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@mstone 179034 wrote:

You mean the passing lane?

The paving appears to be finished now https://twitter.com/WODTrail/status/1007726108576567297.

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I rode to Purcellville today and found out that sometime since the last time that I did it on 6/4/18, the W&OD has been being repaved from the western Leesburg bypass bridge eastward. It was a pleasure going under the eastern Leesburg bypass and not being jostled by the buckled trail. Also the area just east of the there where several years ago they had fixed the underpinnings of the trail is no longer rough. According to someone working there whom I asked, they are repaving as far east as Cochran Mill Road. They were within a mile of that today as it should be finished fairly soon. Hopefully the center line will also be repainted. They still haven’t done that for the short section just west of Vienna which was repaved a couple of years ago.

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@baiskeli 178903 wrote:

Welcome, Christy.

You can indeed ride on a path to the Mall. Starting in Old Town, ride east toward the Potomac River to Union Street and turn left, which will soon turn you left onto Pendleton Street. The connection to the Mt. Vernon Trail is just on your right, through a park and parallel to the train tracks you just crossed. See link below. After a short split in the trail (the right side is more scenic), it takes you along the river to the 14th Street Bridge. Go under it and turn left to cross the bridge and you’ll be next to the Jefferson Memorial.

Be attentive when crossing the tracks and cross them more or less perpendicularly. Otherwise a wheel might get caught in the groove. Been there, done that.

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@Slosurf 178880 wrote:

For those venturing up the C&O Canal towpath, I wanted to share that the trail between around milepost 16 and 20 is pretty badly damaged from the river spilling up and over the towpath from the rains earlier this week. I commute down this trail into DC and, unfortunately, it appears to me the trail will need big repairs to restore to pre-storm condition. I do not know the condition beyond mp 20. This is a bummer because my other option is busy River Road.

Now you tell me. :p There is also a tree on the path further in, but that will be easy to remove.

I rode today out as far as Seneca when I used roads intending to cross at WF which was closed. So I turned around and went through that mess again. Actually the section which is really a mess is shorter than 4 miles.

On the good and unexpected side, at least to me, there is now a bike lane under the Freeway on Water Street (K Street). They did put both directions on the same side which I don’t really like.

Edit: see https://twitter.com/Bilsko/status/1004845996180897794

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No wonder Hains Point was closed on Tuesday.

https://twitter.com/JacobFenston/status/1004081822546919426

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On Wednesday, I was doing loops on Hains Point and was on the short Buckeye Drive section. A car came the other way (heading southwest while I was going NE) and the driver shouted at me something to the effect that bikes should not be on the road there. :confused: There is no sign or road marking which states specifically that bikes are allowed, but there is none that says cars are allowed either.

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Has anyone who uses the PBL at about the same time daily been checking the Bikeometer to see if usage has been increasing?

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Bike repair stand next to the Wharf (west end).
https://twitter.com/TheSouthwester/status/1000042068721446917

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A suspect was apprehended by using Strava; http://loudounnow.com/2018/05/17/wod-trail-assault-suspect-napped-with-tracking-app/

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Does anyone know how long the one-lane bridge on Montevideo Road in Seneca, Maryland over Dry Seneca Creek will be out of service?

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