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@ursus 192669 wrote:

They fixed that hole, but a new one appeared last week in the eastbound lane in the area near the UPS store.

And that new one has expanded with some others near it. has anyone noticed if they have been digging there?

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They fixed that hole, but a new one appeared last week in the eastbound lane in the area near the UPS store.

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@Tania 192520 wrote:

When did they put in the flashing pedestrian light at the turn for Whitehurst on Key Bridge?

It wasn’t there whenever I was there last, but that was probably at least a month ago.

Is the light just continuously flashing, or is it controlled with a beg button?

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@bentbike33 192489 wrote:

The Park Service has closed Ohio Dr. under the 14th Street Bridge complex and the railroad bridges. The barriers they put up are a bit more bike-tight than yesterday, and they were digging a hole this morning. Anyway, avoid looping around between Case Bridge and 14th Street Bridge.

I wonder if they are trying to fix whatever caused flooding last summer in that area on several occasions. I haven’t seen that problem this year, but I might not have been there when it happened,

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@bentbike33 192170 wrote:

I would put the Wharf area tourists in the same category as the MVT geese, although I suspect it may be easier to train the geese to the meaning of a bike bell.

When I was returning home yesterday, down the Custis, the MVT, 14th Street Bridge, and then the Wharf, I noted that all of the geese were on one side or another of the MVT. Not one was on the bike path. OTOH, the tourists were all over the Wharf path and oblivious to shouts or bell rings. That area is worse on the weekends than during the work week.

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I have many times stopped to read the rules that are on the various companies’ scooters. I assume that these are not laws but things that the companies are doing to keep from being sued. I think that I have only once seen a scooter rider wearing a helmet, and other rules like don’t ride on sidewalks are also violated frequently.

Anyway, while on foot and waiting for a light to change, I noticed that a Lyft scooter had something in braille written on the stem. Does anyone know what I says?

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@Tania 192442 wrote:

Meanwhile, I’m over here like “aw yeah, the root/frost heaves are coming back on the custis where they just repaired it!” (the westbound downhill section near Uhle St)

The bumps are also coming back on the W&OD going downhill heading west to go under the US15 bypass on the east side of Leesburg. They repaved this section last summer.

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@ursus 192282 wrote:

Trees down near Hamilton on the W&OD https://twitter.com/WODTrail/status/1153310844782075904.

https://twitter.com/WODTrail/status/1153716120047816704

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Trees down near Hamilton on the W&OD https://twitter.com/WODTrail/status/1153310844782075904.

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@lordofthemark 192161 wrote:

I use both the Wharf PBL AND the Case bridge route.

Even going slowly, the Wharf route is usually faster for me than Case. I get used to dealing with peds and cars coming out of the driveways. Glad they fixed the hole, but wish they would restore the bike marking in the lane, which might help a tad with clueless peds. The worst part is really the part west of the fishmarket, where cyclists, scooter riders, and very clueless peds all mix. When the wharf is worst (Thursday and Friday PMs, generally) I do the Case route, and have gotten much better at ascending the swithback. Will try out the police HQ short cut again. The worst part of the Case bridge route for me is the approach via Capital Square Place and 9th. The speed bumps on CS Place are nasty, and I do get nervous about cutting through the development. And making the right from 9th to Banneker can be challenging. OTOH I like the new protection on Banneker.

Although they can be regarded as pedestrians, I would put the clueless tourists getting on and off buses in a category of their own.

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@creadinger 192151 wrote:

On the plus side, of the 4 morons I had interactions with yesterday, the fish market one was the least surprising.

It’s more of a surprise when it does not happen.

On the plus side, they finally decided about a week ago that the only way to fix the hole near the northern end of the northbound PBL was to repave a section. Just throwing stuff into the hole was not working at all.

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They have essentially finished repaving between Ashburn Road and Cochran Mill Road. The center line probably won’t be added for several months as happened in the section directly west of this.

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@n18 190795 wrote:

Scroll down to “Latest updates” here. Quote:

Thanks greatly. I should have looked at that website.

IMHO, the detour to the horse trail was far from good. It was full of deep ruts, mud, and piles of horse poop. In other places, I have been able to use it.

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I rode on the W&OD trail today. They are repaving west of Ashburn. The horse path was so bad I gave up. Does anyone know how far it is being repaved (probably to the place they repaved a year or so ago) and when it will reopen?

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I was on the W&OD for the first time this year. I was surprised to see that this was apparently fixed. Does anyone know when it reopened?

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