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District Hardware and Bike which has been at the Wharf in DC the last two years will be closed permanently after today. https://wtop.com/dc/2019/11/after-48-years-in-dc-district-hardware-and-bike-to-close-permanently/

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It sounds like I am lucky that I am retired and don’t ride over the Douglass bridge going to and from work at NRL anymore.

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@Judd 194282 wrote:

Saw that guy feasting on a pigeon at Gravelly Point last Saturday.

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The guy on the left or the guy on the right?

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Assuming that it will be held, has the date for this been set yet for this year?

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Does anyone know if the Bikometer will be reinstalled near the IoD? (I have not been there since Sunday if it is now up.)

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Can someone mention at least one light with a cutoff pattern? I am unfamiliar with this.

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https://twitter.com/WODTrail/status/1179434490718031873

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This happened a couple of weeks ago. I was heading west on the W&OD approaching Reston. A group of 10 or 15 joggers were also going westward and covering the entire trail. They were talking to each other and didn’t do anything when I said “passing on left” repeatedly and rang my bell. Suddenly they all started to move to the right and I moved to the left thinking that they had finally heard me. Apparently that was not the case as what they were doing was turning around to head east. Thankfully I had not picked up much speed yet and was able to easily avoid them. My presence was not acknowledged.

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@dasgeh 193230 wrote:

In the not too distant future, Banneker Park will be closed as well, making 3 significant detours in a 3 ish mile stretch of the W&OD.

I believe the following route will get you around all three detours. The crossing of Lee is at a light, but the crossing of Roosevelt/Sycamore involves turning right onto the major street and then left off of it. So this isn’t a safe-and-comfortable route, but a route that could do for a confident commuter.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/6998-6900+N+Four+Mile+Run+Dr,+Falls+Church,+VA+22046/38.8801808,-77.1262668/@38.8828695,-77.1504219,16z/data=!4m34!4m33!1m30!1m1!1s0x89b7b4e8c7ddb835:0x4ca93b19bc13263d!2m2!1d-77.1665838!2d38.8886961!3m4!1m2!1d-77.1656033!2d38.8837728!3s0x89b7b4ebf9a51a39:0x3bddb47561d13f14!3m4!1m2!1d-77.15185!2d38.8806694!3s0x89b7b4f4f772074d:0x93713ee9802e3ab4!3m4!1m2!1d-77.1471466!2d38.8813388!3s0x89b7b45f685ce56b:0x10a1510914fe3dcf!3m4!1m2!1d-77.1385971!2d38.880944!3s0x89b7b45c943180ff:0x1fb788a98c2adfac!3m4!1m2!1d-77.1323771!2d38.8812596!3s0x89b7b444755df5b9:0x9a93f49bac5dfacf!1m0!3e1

Eek! I definitely think that they should close I-66 to cars and let us use it from Rosslyn to mile 6 of the W&OD

Thanks for all the info.

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@Tania 193224 wrote:

I took bentbike’s 11th/14th street detour (from when the W&OD was closed in Feb for erosion issues) and avoided all of it. That section of the trail is one big mental suck for me.

Where does that end up crossing I-66? Either that or can someone direct me to that thread? I do recall that thread but just gave up looking for it. I always have trouble with the organizational structure of this forum’s posts.

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@Sunyata 193219 wrote:

They were fixed-ish when I went through there yesterday afternoon.

I didn’t look on the way back from Purcellville since I took the Metro home from East Falls Church. Hopefully I will be back within a week.

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@DrP 193114 wrote:

Can we harness your powers to get things done?

I think that my powers only work in a negative way. This and the rain for last year’s Hains Point 100. http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?13915-2018-Hains-Point-100-December-16th!&p=183734#post183734
OTOH, when the end of the Custis trail is completed, it will eliminate the blind curve at the end which is good.

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Good to know that I was not the only one who messed up. At 0-dark-30 I headed westbound and didn’t notice a sign for the left at the bridge to cross I-66, so I passed it even though I knew it was there somewhere. I realized I missed it about 10 feet later. Then when I crossed the bridge, I knew I should make a right and it, but didn’t see a sign. It is probably there, but it wasn’t obvious.

OTOH, the new detour, east of the Citizens Bridge on the W&OD, has a lit sign. In addition, it might be least detourish of any detour I have seen.

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@DrP 193057 wrote:

Just received an e-mail from VDOT that this will begin on Monday, September 16, 2019 and continue through fall 2020.

I did it again. Nothing was done since May. Then a day after I ask what’s going in, they decide to start the next week.

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@bentbike33 191423 wrote:

The other detour, actually of the Custis under I-66, looks like it is about ready to begin (a month late, it seems). I like how the detour signs (still bagged up) are about as tall as basketball backboards. I guess it’s so all the penny-farthing riders I see on the Custis every day can see them well.

Does anyone have any update as to when this detour will start? It is now about four months since the May supposed start, and besides for the bagged detour signs, nothing has happened. Not that I am complaining.

I want to thank whoever suggested using Columbia St. rather than the official detour for the bridge project. Besides for some rough pavement on Columbia, the detour is great. A matter of fact, had I known about it all these years, I might have used it when a detour was not needed because the crossing of N. Washington St. (Lee Highway) is much simpler than where the bridge is bring built. I am surprised that Columbia St. traffic seems to get as much time at the light as N. Washington does.

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