DCist: Cyclists Rejoice: Re-Paving Season Has Started

Xtena

Sat, 03 May 2008 16:14:24 -0500

LOVE the artwork

ibc

Fri, 02 May 2008 13:47:14 -0500

It is my opinion that unless every single person I ever see on a bicycle follows every single traffic rule to the letter, at all times, I should be have free rein to run them down with my pearlescent Yukon XL. That is all.

Mike Licht

Fri, 02 May 2008 12:39:21 -0500

Bicyclist and sidewalk should never be mentioned in the same sentence I agree. but despite the title and accomplished illustration, this post refers to $41 million in road, sidewalk, and alley repairs and links to the DC press release DDOT Announces FY08 and FY09 Local Street, Alley and Sidewalk Schedules (Revised). While bike riders on sidewalks are a source of pedestrian injuries, "stump-and-fall" and "slip-and-fall" injuries caused by brick sidewalks support a growing population of personal injury lawyers and orthopedic surgeons.

bob_g

Fri, 02 May 2008 12:24:53 -0500

Ward 1 FY2008 Repaving Map

tcl022077

Fri, 02 May 2008 12:16:31 -0500

Tell you what, Warshington, as soon as DC makes sure that every street in the city is safe at every time of day for bike traffic, I'll stay off of every sidewalk. Until then, certain roads require acts of Knievel-esque stupidity to ride on them (roads that have no curb lane at rush hour and have drivers flying along at 10-20 mph over the speed limit in their hurry to get the hell home, for instance). So I'll keep to the sidewalk in those cases, where I can keep from getting squished like grape. I respect the fact that walkers can't go as fast as I do, and make sure that my trip on the sidewalk doesn't impact them at all. If I'm stuck behind them, that's my problem, not theirs. (That said, I'm not referring to busy downtown sidewalks at all; those are off limits by law. And if there's a bike lane, or a curb lane with parked cars, you're right, there's no excuse for a bike to be on a crowded sidewalk in those cases)

IMGoph

Fri, 02 May 2008 12:12:19 -0500

yeah, i was noticing that myself, cminus. what happened to the ability of the commentariat to add our own tags?

Lionel M Hutz

Fri, 02 May 2008 12:05:06 -0500

"Bicyclist and sidewalk should never be mentioned in the same sentence as they should have nothing to do with each other ever." Seeing as riding a bike on the sidewalk is legal pretty much everywhere in the District I don't see why they are not related.

Politburo

Fri, 02 May 2008 11:59:21 -0500

Won't someone please think of Gallagher?

cminus

Fri, 02 May 2008 11:59:08 -0500

All in favor of adding a "Davy DCist" tag, look for the "add a tag" feature, not find it, search the website for "add tags," realize that the functionality must have been removed without you noticing in a fit of anti-Web 2.0 realism, come back here, and post your support. And then make me a pie.

OldPosterKnownAsCranky

Fri, 02 May 2008 11:35:34 -0500

That's some clutch artwork.

monkeyrotica

Fri, 02 May 2008 11:26:51 -0500

It's called a sideWALK, not a sideRIDE. And yet we still park in a driveway, and drive on a parkway. Won't someone please think of the children?

Warshington

Fri, 02 May 2008 11:18:35 -0500

Bicyclist and sidewalk should never be mentioned in the same sentence as they should have nothing to do with each other ever.

Mike Licht

Fri, 02 May 2008 11:05:57 -0500

Sidewalk repair in DC often consists of ripping up perfectly good concrete and installing anachronistic and dangerous red brick -- with federal funds.

flapjack

Fri, 02 May 2008 11:04:21 -0500

Wow, the comment thread on that DIY post is harsh.

yonas

Fri, 02 May 2008 10:57:26 -0500

hallelujah!!!

G Lover Park

Fri, 02 May 2008 10:53:13 -0500

Since a da Pope-a come-a to town-a, I have been SOOOOOOO TEMPTED to venture out on Mass Ave at the wee hours of 5 AM on a weekend on my longboard. Pure sexual asphalt. Arghlghlghlhlghlhglhlgh!!!!! I wonder what the guards at Dick's Crib would think about that?

monkeyrotica

Fri, 02 May 2008 10:50:59 -0500

Shouldn't someone throw a mattress in that pothole?

IMGoph

Fri, 02 May 2008 10:47:43 -0500

thanks, martin. you just put a damn big smile on my face. i just hope that's not davy dcist drowning at the bottom of lake t street there. (please tell me they're repaving t street from 16th over to 13th)

MSto

Fri, 02 May 2008 10:45:43 -0500

i'm loving the art work, who can i purchase that from?

monkeyrotica

Fri, 02 May 2008 10:41:16 -0500

The funny part is that, although the holes were rather small, DDOT had to count them all. Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.