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Someone asked for help moving a bookcase that will not fit in a minivan/SUV/car. I offered to help with the bike.

Then she called back: her husband says I won’t be able to move it.

Which is how I ended up biking a large bookcase through the middle of Clarendon on a most perfect June day ��

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@kwarkentien 202111 wrote:

I’ve never felt unsafe on the Route 50 trail in that location. Maybe it’s just me.

Maybe the original description was incorrect, but the *south* side 50 trail is just lovely.

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@Starduster 202110 wrote:

Now can I ask for the same barriers for the Route 50 trail, south side from Pershing down past Ft. Myer?

I would prioritize barriers, tall enough to block oncoming headlights, on the 110 Trail.

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@Henry 201821 wrote:

Per the sticky at the top of this Forum Topic:

Here’s a quick contact info reference for the National Park Service if you have any questions concerning the Mount Vernon Trail/G.W. Parkway:

Phone: 703-419-6400 (Division of Maintenance) 703-289-2500 (Visitor Information line)

Web: http://www.nps.gov/gwmp/index.htm

Email: GWMP_Superintendent@nps.gov

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NPSGWMP

Twitter: http://twitter.com/NPSGWMP

Emailing the superintendent is the best way. That’s how last year’s tunnel was cleared (sorry husker)

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That’s not just scope creep, the W&OD Trail is not Arlington’s. It belong to NOVA Parks. The good news is NOVA Parks has a nice budget for trail maintenance, so I’d shoot them a line about root heaves and other pavement issue on the trail.

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@arlcxrider 201712 wrote:

My understanding is that only “beg buttons” in areas of high pedestrian activity had been changed, on a case-by-case basis. There was no county-wide re-programming of beg buttons or new policy mandating same.

Yes and no. It was supposed to be all beg buttons in certain corridors were changed, but not elsewhere. IIRC the corridors were: Crystal City/Rte 1, Columbia Pike, Wilson/Clarendon/Fairfax, Lee, Glebe. Not County-wide, but all buttons within the designated areas, not case-by-case.

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@LhasaCM 200212 wrote:

Not from my memory, but from Google (in case this helps pinpoint the timeline or jog someone’s memory): https://www.nps.gov/gwmp/learn/management/upload/No-Bikes-on-Road_Compliant.pdf

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That is from 2011. Bikes were banned years before.

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@DrP 199889 wrote:

IOD area update 1:
[…] Not sure if the construction crew didn’t understand or if the monolith could only take four inputs.

I happened to have ridden by (on essential travel to my office, weeks ago) when they were installing everything. The County’s bike/ped planner, who’s in charge of the data program was there. I’m fairly certain it’s installed correctly.

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@mstone 199887 wrote:

It’s a ridiculous ask to have DOT people out putting up cones so people can play outside right now. I’m sorry, I don’t believe that the sidewalks anywhere in the region (that is, not desirable destinations that people are flocking to and causing the closures) are so crowded that they are life-threatening.

Advocacy is great, but at some point it’s counterproductive. Making “needs more bike space” the answer to every problem just makes that solution less credible when it actually is appropriate.

Glad to see you’re habit of misstating my positions has not changed during these difficult times.

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When you live in a house or even a townhome that has its own separate outdoor space, it’s easy to say “just stick to *your* space if there are no safe options”. But lots of people in this area live in high rises. They don’t have their own outdoor space. To get fresh air and exercise (both important for health), they have to go out. The point a lot of us are making is this: we don’t need to dedicate so much space to cars right now. Cars aren’t using it. We can instead dedicate that space to giving people an option to walk, run, bike, BE outside, in fresh air, but separate from others.

I’m not concerned with closing a lane on (e.g.) Military Road, which runs through neighborhoods of mostly SFHs, and is flanked by neighborhood streets. But Lynn and Fort Myer, Four Mile Run Drive, Joyce and Hayes, etc — those streets that run through areas with lots of multifamily housing — We should use the space that we don’t need for cars right now and use it like trails – open to people walking, running, scooting, and biking, where people later on that list have to yield to people earlier on that list.

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Bike Arlington has a comfort map which should come in handy about now: http://www.bikearlington.com/maps-and-routes/

We’ve found that neighborhood streets, especially the ones that don’t go anywhere, are great for biking with kids. The bigger challenge is finding routes that are flat enough for your purposes (if that’s what you’re in to). A few weeks ago, I went through the Kidical Mass Arlington archive and labeled routes that I would not recommend at this time — all other routes are recommended for family rides – safe, flat(ish), short, but able to be repeated or strung together. http://kidicalmassarl.blogspot.com/

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This is planned work that is scheduled to last ~ 4 weeks.

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@Nadine 199449 wrote:

I wonder if the cycling clubs that are canceling rides ride in pelotons. Babes on bikes doesn’t ride that close – we’ve just been sitting/standing much further apart on breaks.

My husband’s bike team is not training together, and I believe other teams are doing the same. Cancelling group activities helps flatten the curve!

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@cvcalhoun 199426 wrote:

I don’t worry so much about myself. Even though I’m theoretically in a high risk group, I’m not in a very high risk group, and being female is protective. However, I don’t want to contribute to disseminating this thing so fast that hospitals run out of ventilators and the like.

Thanks for modeling safe behavior!

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This virus is different in that the incubation period is 5-14 days — i.e. a person could have no symptoms for 5-14 days after exposure and could be spreading the virus during some or all of that time. Our testing has been virtually non-existent. So I don’t think we can rely on the ol’ “don’t come if you have symptoms” to stop the spread of this thing.

Also, when you’re working out, you’re sweating, your nose starts running, you may spit… Bodily fluids are prevalent.

Personally, I think solo bike rides are fine at this point. I think having a small set of “your people” that you are in contact with (as long as it’s a closed set – you are all only in contact with each other) is fine. But I think anything beyond that is putting people in danger.

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