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Cycling’s Challenge: The Windshield Perspective
Arlington County temporarily shuts down a major walking/cycling commuter route with no detour.
No doubt many regular readers of this column will be expecting me to tee off on last week’s inexplicable and unannounced closure of a very busy part of the Custis Trail — with no detour. It sent cyclists and pedestrians onto Lee Highway against traffic. The drivers themselves had no warning that the lane in front of them would be filled with cyclists and pedestrians simply trying to get to their own destinations. It was more than half a day before the county, in response to complaints, put a detour in place. Some, quite understandably, see this as a failing of Arlington County to follow through on its promise to be a cycling- and walking-friendly community. And, I suppose, in a way it is a failure. But it’s not a failure of intent. I’m …
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Mark Blacknell
7:16 pm on Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Good ideas, Rob. Might run out of paper making a list of authorities from whom cooperation would be required, though . . . Yoeun - I'm tired of inconsiderate cyclists, too. What I'm trying to do here is actually reduce conflict/injury, instead of just ineffectively wagging my finger at those who blow the intersection. Geof, cyclists on Lee Highway have the ROW, of course. But even if you were … more ›