New Alexandria Bicycle Maps

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Originally Posted by Emm

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I just think it'd be really fun to ride on EVERY SINGLE ROAD the city calls bike friendly, and then decide if we agreed with them or not :).

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ZOMG WSGFAB and do this.

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Originally Posted by Judd

ZOMG WSGFAB and do this.

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We can spend days riding on every street in the City where there is any bike policy relevant question capable of being checked out by riding around, and we STILL won't have checked out as many as Casey Kane has. :)

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Originally Posted by Emm

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I just think it'd be really fun to ride on EVERY SINGLE ROAD the city calls bike friendly, and then decide if we agreed with them or not :).

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Damnit, where is my ELITE button? We should definitely do this.

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Originally Posted by lordofthemark

We can spend days riding on every street in the City where there is any bike policy relevant question capable of being checked out by riding around, and we STILL won't have checked out as many as Casey Kane has. :)

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Thanks LOTM, I have definitely ridden every street in the City with a hill that either has bike infrastructure or has been designated an on-street bike route. Sadly, the City has done a better job marking designated bike routes on maps, than they have on the actual streets.

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Originally Posted by peterw_diy

It seems crazy to me as I review old versions that, for instance, Kennedy/Landover aren't marked as steep.

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There are lots of steep hills not marked. The bike map was only marking hills that either have bike infrastructure or were on designated bike routes. Currently, Kennedy and Landover don’t meet the criteria.

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Originally Posted by Emm

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I just think it'd be really fun to ride on EVERY SINGLE ROAD the city calls bike friendly, and then decide if we agreed with them or not :).

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Since we don’t have buttons to click on, I will use my own scoring <TRIPLE LIKE>

I am sure the City will appreciate this kind of feed back. I will confirm how they would want hills to be rated and whether they would want to limit the rating to hills that have infrastructure or are currently rated as a designated bike route.

I am in for the ride.

I do not understand why hills would not be shown anyplace they exist. I have not seen the map, but I suspect it shows where there is bike infrastructure and where there is not. What would be the point of NOT showing a hill, regardless of whether the city has gotten around to making that particular street part of the bike infrastructure network?

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Originally Posted by Steve O

I do not understand why hills would not be shown anyplace they exist. I have not seen the map, but I suspect it shows where there is bike infrastructure and where there is not. What would be the point of NOT showing a hill, regardless of whether the city has gotten around to making that particular street part of the bike infrastructure network?

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Don’t know. I checked the Arlington map, the DC map, and the Fairfax map. Only Alexandria and Arlington flag hills on their maps and they only include hills that are on designated bike routes or that have some type of bike infrastructure. Fairfax and Washington have opted not to include hill details.

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Originally Posted by CaseyKane50

Don’t know. I checked the Arlington map, the DC map, and the Fairfax map. Only Alexandria and Arlington flag hills on their maps and they only include hills that are on designated bike routes or that have some type of bike infrastructure. Fairfax and Washington have opted not to include hill details.

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These maps look busy enough as-is, I'm imagining a topo map overlaid (underlaid?) and it seems it would be nearly unintelligible. I haven't seen the Alexandria map, but I'd think that if the bike infrastructure is distributed well enough (big if) one could get a sense of the general topography even if only the bike route hills and such are marked.

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Originally Posted by josh

These maps look busy enough as-is, I'm imagining a topo map overlaid (underlaid?) and it seems it would be nearly unintelligible.

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The older versions laid simple V shapes pointing uphill. Here's how an older version indicated the steep drops on Braddock to Valley & Timber Branch:
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