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I went across it 6 times today, 3 in each direction. I kept hoping all of the marathoners would be gone and I could ride around HP. I suspect that there is still work to be done although it certainly is an improvement upon the former path. Those bollrads [sic] are going to lead to crashes. Besides for being in the way, cyclists and pedestrians should probably go around them on the right, but undoubtedly not every one will, and as of now there is no indication of traffic flow.

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When I stopped at the water fountain at the intersection of the Custis and W&OD early this morning, I noticed that the manhole cover next to it was not where it should be (namely closing the hole). Watch out if you walk there. It had a crack in it for sometime.

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@lordofthemark 181698 wrote:

I will be away this Friday, but I am interested.

Hopefully there are others who are also interested. As to when, I should probably leave it to others because I am retired. Of course the date and time which is picked will probably conflict with something that I am doing.

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There is a sign at the southern tip of the Hains Point loop.

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This isn’t the correct thread to post this, but I figured this post would reach the appropriate people here. It can, of course, be posted elsewhere also.

A little less than a year ago, we wanted to have a morning coffee gathering at the District Hardware and Bike store at the current southern end of the DC Wharf. It turned out that it wasn’t really open yet.

Now that it has been in business for sometime, is anyone interested in trying to do this again? The selling window opens at 7 AM and the store itself at 8 AM. If we decide to meet before 8 AM, the tables they set up outside may or may not be available yet, but in any case there are some tables in the small park south of the store.

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Having read about the problems at Trollheim, it looks like construction workers have it in for bicyclists today. One working on the Key Bridge severely rutted the C&O towpath below it.

https://twitter.com/WHands80/status/1047222854285189120

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reopened
https://twitter.com/NPSJennyAS/status/1047216921094103040

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@Nadine 181646 wrote:

I got lost right at the beginning. Which side is the downstream side? South or north?

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Downstream is southbound.

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@huskerdont 181636 wrote:

VDOt SOP.

So, funny story. You can’t do a post with all caps. I tried every combination and had to have at least one letter lower cased or it converted every letter to lower case. No shouting!

TYPE ONE RANDOM LETTER IN LOWER CASE AND COLOR IT WHITE, LIKE THIS a.

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So today, I was returning home going southbound on the protected bike line. There was a mother with a baby carriage who had let her baby (toddler is probably a better description) out of the carriage, and (s)he was sitting calmly in the bike line and playing with something.

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@Emm 181513 wrote:

Just because you (wisely) think that’s what it means, doesn’t mean the pedestrians walking around interpret it that way too

True. I don’t expect the pedestrians who can’t decipher the pictures with arrows showing where pedestrians should be and where bikes should be, to be able to read.

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@huskerdont 181508 wrote:

To avoid the Maine Avenue “cycletrack,” which really in an area like this is just another place for pedestrians to wander through obliviously, we’ve started taking 9th to G to 4th (going to Audi Field). On the way home, we’ve been taking the lane on Maine. I really don’t understand the thought behind a cycletrack in an area like this. Too many businesses, people, and cars cutting across to be anything like safe or expedient. I feel like it was just put there to get bikes out of cars’ way on the road, but it ends at a sidewalk (southbound) anyway so you still have to ride on Maine.

I assume that the when Phase 2 is built the cycle track will continue southbound and merge with the existing path south of M and then east at the Titanic Memorial and onto P Street.

4th Street, which you mentioned, south of M is currently a mess due to FIOS installation.

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@Emm 181507 wrote:

Those signs have been there awhile. It’s a little confusing to have a cycle track with yield to pedestrian signs. It really just reinforces that it’s a giant sidewalk.

They also finally added crosswalk signals across the sidewalk/cycle track at one of the intersections with lights near the fish market. For awhile there were cars who had a green light flying across the cycle track/sidewalk, and unless you knew to look over and across the street for their light, no indication that this was an actual intersection and not just another driveway situation. Only issue is the signals are not where you’d expect them to be, so I still see bikes and peds walking directly in front of cars there without realizing there’s a crosswalk signal to look out for.

I thought that the signs refer to pedestrians crossing the cycle track, not on the cycle track.

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@ursus 180943 wrote:

There are indeed bollards now.

It seems like everyday, there are more bollards.

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@Judd 181026 wrote:

What I can glean from Twitter is that the official detour is to walk up or down the stairs next to the bridge. It’s being closed to widen the path, so I’m trying to not get aggro about it unless the closing of Memorial Bridge which was supposed to happen this weekend and was delayed gets pushed back to coincide with this closure.

It will certainly be nice to have a wider path. Hopefully, they can do this rapidly.

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