I’ve flown through DCA probably 100 times. Maybe a couple bad experiences mostly involving cancelled flights. I usually do my front door (NW DC) to gate in under 30 minutes.

I have nightmares about IAD though.

Yeah I just mentioned them since half this ride went through Ward 3. Is there a Montgomery county group for completeness?

not everyone lives in NW :)

These are the SE ones.

Sign up for the w3ba and waba listservs (there is also a moco one, but I'm not on it)

w3ba: https://ward3bikes.org/

waba: https://waba.org/lists/

Are sidewalks part of the road? A few folks eating dinner on a sidewalk patio were run over. I guess they were asking for it.

Uh the biker that died and this memorial was for was in a bike lane. It wasn’t a shared road.

Just like crime is a shared responsibility between those killed and their murderers?

yeah, barcelona and paris are two good examples.

If restaurants aren't using it, it should just be made into more pedestrian space. The sidewalks in Georgetown and Adams Morgan have so many more people using them than a parking spot.

Honestly M St in Georgetown and most of Adams Morgan should be shut down to all non-resident cars period.

They were made without a car in mind and should remain that way.

BTW, M and 18th have never not been a shitshow...

Some recent deaths of bikers and pedestrians in the DC area:

• Fatima Del Carmen Alvarez Romero (2021)
• Micheal Hawkins Randall (2022)
• William Villavicencio (2022)
• Rhonda Whitaker (2021)
• Waldon Adams (2021)
• Charles Jackson (2022)
• Viviana Oxlaj Perez (2022)
• Migual Angel Rivera (2022)
• Zhen Xiu Chen (2022)
• Micheal Gordon (2022)
• Zy'aire Joshua (2021)
• Kaidyn Green (2022)
• Enzo Marcel Alvarenga (2022)

And FU to all those in the thread saying that 'this is a rich white person issue'.

uh, in ward 3 and Bethesda (where 90% of this bike ride was), car crashes are 5 times more likely to kill residents than homicides. i'm confused, there is pretty much nothing else that is dangerous in that part of town. cars are the only danger to pedestrians or residents.

as for infrastructure, a bit of paint and plastic bollards are nothing for a city that wastes millions or corruption.

these are transportation advocates, and yes they did organize events and vigils for those of color that were killed by bad drivers.

next you'll ask for people who run food banks to spend their time ending gun violence.

this may be a bit far, but washgal's is pretty good. but that is probably too far NW for you.

closer in, stachowski has good meat too. not sure if they'll have it in stock or will need to order it though.

yeah, let us be ok with a mother of two being killed on her way home after they were evacuated from kiev.

it is worse than that. she was biking home from her kids' school. she was wearing a helmet and was in a bike lane.

They are fighting upper middle class car driving enthusiasts from Bethesda, Chevy Chase and Upper NW.

The difference is one side is killing the other and getting away with it.

I dont think the show has anything to do with DC; this is just trying to connect your 'dreams' with the show.

Anywho it isn't perfect, but I get where they are going. I mean, very few apartments in Georgetown have parking, you can't get to the cathedral on metro, you can't buy a Wesley Heights home for under $3M, etc.

Yup. This is why every road in DC should have a protected and separate bike lane. Otherwise car traffic should be stopped and the road ripped up.

Where do you cross RCP? Tilden/Blagden? 94 do you go south?

Electricity bikes in tenleytown. The took over the old VW dealership there. They have bikes if you want to test ride them now.

We just switched. We just have one kid, but recommend the Tern GSD for the city and maneuverability. We thought about the Yuba and the Xtracycle RFA, but like the low center of gravity.

We looked at the Urban Arrow/ R&M Load, but decided it was just too unwieldy for most of the city. It is fine for tooling around Brookland or Tenelytown, but hard to navigate otherwise. Though if we buy a second bike, it'll be the front bucket style.

Note, we have garage/shed parking. Makes a massive difference in day to day comfort and ease of use. Also considering we bought the bike instead of a second car, we really weren't phased by the cost. Between fuel, insurance, and car payments; the bike paid off in what 4 months of a decent RAV4 would have cost.

lol, yup.

bit of a chicken-egg thing, huh?

Density along mcarthur is 1/5 of that of wisconsin south of tenly circle. We do know how many school age children live in the Foxhall-ish area. IRS, as well as 2020 Census data know exactly. DC also has access to this.

I'm counting 399 using block group data as the average of the last 5-years between 5 and 10 years old. But since I'm lazy, I'm including a good chunk of the Wesley/Mann catchment and going pretty much all the way to Key ES and who can't really walk to it. This includes kids who go to privates, which are quite popular in the area. I'm betting you can't really get more than 250 students who can walk to it; even accounting for diversion from privates)

DC was planning a 500 student school there. Mechanically they cannot get enough students for that within walking range. I don't think the fixed cost of a 250 or even 300 student school is worth it for DC. If they build it, it will be to mostly bus/drive in students. I'm ok with that, but let us not kid ourselves into thinking there are tons and tons of elementary school kids there now.

Really, unless they completely upzone the area, you aren't going to get many more people and that includes kids.

if DCPS MPD is allowed to pull over cars with violations and impound on the spot; this problem solves itself.