[MCL1981]

Which I haven’t done. In this thread or any other one. I can not help that you choose to take bits and pieces of what I say and whine about them out of context, ignoring everything else I said on the matter. Then you blame me for somehow disturbing the forum when I have to defend what I said against your made up crap. Like this.

[MCL1981]

Use the Little Falls Trail as a detour. It parallels the closed section. Runs from Mass Ave to just north of the tunnel. The rest of the trail, including the detour, is passable and open.

[MCL1981]

Well expecting people to not be idiots, and have some responsibility for themselves is all I’m doing. And that’s all you ever disagree with me about. So why don’t you try to better contain your bitterness from some other unrelated thread rather than being foolish in this one too.

[MCL1981]

The CCT between Mass Ave and just north of the tunnel remains closed. However, you can bypass it using the parallel Little Falls Trail. It runs from Mass Ave to the southern end of the closure. So you can now ride end to end. Just don’t go through the barricades and watch out for drunken idiots in cars apparently.

[MCL1981]

I’m planning to bottle this cold air for next time. I move to Germantown the end of July. I’m buying a generator big enough to black start the entire grid. I’ve had it with this crap.

[MCL1981]

Thanks. Now the CCT just needs to get back in shape.

[MCL1981]

@mstone 24308 wrote:

Well, I hope you don’t go looking for any sympathy if you have an accident. I won’t belabor all the ways that bollards can pose a risk to people due to factors other than “zoned out”. But it is good to see that you’re remaining true to form.

By “true to form”, you mean expecting people to take responsibility for themselves and not be idiots, yes.

[MCL1981]

I suppose numbnuts could also have entered at Fletcher’s Cove. There is a vehicle access there with no bollards. You would have to drive across the canal bridge, turn left onto the C&O canal, then make a u-turn at the vehicle ramp to the CCT. It would be absolutely impossible to “accidentally” think you were just on a small road.

If you ride your bike into a bollard, that is not the bollard’s fault. I have no sympathy at all. If you are so zoned out that you don’t notice the big yellow bollard, then I’m glad you hit the bollard and not me.

[MCL1981]

Here in the Montgomerty County blast zone, I just got power back. Been living in my truck or in a refugee camp for 4 nights. I was struck by one of my own flying patio chairs when the storm hit. Which is better than being struck by one of the many trees that took flight.

[MCL1981]

Oh. My. God. This moron drove on at water street, up the path, over the canal bridge that says NO MOTOR VEHICLES, over the aqueduct bridge, AND THROUGH THE DAMN TUNNEL!!!

This why we need to not complain about bollards.

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@brendan 24240 wrote:

Better yet, a calmed version of the circle, which would encourage automobiles to take other routes, would be nice.

Actually the current version of the circle does a fine job of encouraging me to take a different route as it is.

[MCL1981]

They started wising up about the traffic control situation in the Montgomery Blast Radius. Cones and tape down the middle where the main road has a median. This makes it so that intersecting traffic (the smaller road) can only turn right. This significantly sped things up since nobody could actually cross all the lanes. Most people are getting the hang of it too. The main roads, people slow and stop as needed to accommodate someone waiting to cross/turn. And where the view is clear, people just roll through in groups rather than stopping one at a time unnecessarily. Friday night and Saturday were an absolute nightmare. But by Sunday, people were figuring it out.

What really gets me is once night falls. Sometimes you don’t know you’re blasting through a controlled intersection until you see the light in the top of the windshield. I went through many dark intersection without even realizing I was in them

@Rootchopper 24213 wrote:

This whole 4-way stop thread has me thinking that many of these intersections would be better served with roundabouts.

You apparently have never driven through Dupont, have you?

[MCL1981]

Shit, that’s my route. I’m at a friend’s place in Germantown (the refugee camp) until Grosvenor gets power back, so I won’t be biking in anyway. But that sucks.

[MCL1981]

The wind is most commonly out of the southish. Meaning it will be at your back in the morning and in your face on the way home. Second most common appears to be the opposite, out of the northish. It will vary out of the westish when it is shifting between north and south. Out of the eastish is least common.

This is a scatter plot from the DCA ASOS for the year 2011. It may take a bit to load. It is a LOT of data. You can see that in the winter, it is kinda all over the place, mostly south-west-north. In the spring through fall, it tends to favor out of the south.
http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KDCA/2011/1/1/CustomHistory.html?dayend=31&monthend=12&yearend=2011&req_city=NA&req_state=NA&req_statename=NA
[IMG]http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/histGraphAll?day=1&year=2011&month=1&dayend=31&yearend=2011&monthend=12&ID=KDCA&type=6&width=614[/IMG][IMG]http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KDCA/2011/1/1/CustomHistory.html?dayend=31&monthend=12&yearend=2011&req_city=NA&req_state=NA&req_statename=NA[/IMG]

[MCL1981]

@Jason 23500 wrote:

The bells seems to confuse tourists. No $hit I have seen some look straight up in the air as if tinkerbell is talking to them. I find a combination of yelling, and mad bell ringing works about 50% of the time.

These are the same ones that look at the sign that says “INSERT CARD HERE” on a metro faregate and scratch their heads. Some are beyond help.

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