Posts tagged 15th Street Bike Lane
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New ramps make it easier to bike by the White House
When people biking along the 15th Street protected bikeway reached the White House, they used to have to choose between the sidewalk and a tight squeeze at a security gate. As of this Monday, there’s a route just for bikes. Keep reading…
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DC will extend the 15th Street bikeway and add a pocket park, but crosswalks are still missing
DC’s 15th Street NW protected bikeway will soon extend a few blocks north, past a dangerous intersection. The area will also become safer for pedestrians. But one thing is missing: a few crosswalks. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: One year old
Happy birthday Silver Line; Talk in the tunnel (not yet); How much is too much; Approval needed; Livable, walkable Rosslyn; Room for improvement; More bike lane; Be polite. Keep reading…
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Ask GGW: How do you cross a street if you’re in a bikeway that runs against car traffic?
Some of DC’s bikeways run in two directions on a street while the cars can only travel in one. Reader MacKenzie wants to know the right way to turn toward a destination that’s on the opposite side of the bikeway. On 15th Street NW, the bikeway runs in north and south, but cars only go north. I usually ride south on 15th Street NW, and then need to turn left onto Q. There… Keep reading…
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DC’s most bike-friendly corner: 15th and L
Look at this beautiful photo. Two cycletracks meet at a street corner, bike boxes and green paint flow in every direction, and a bikeshare station sits in the background. It’s almost Dutch. Almost. Keep reading…
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15th Street cycletrack gets s*** on ... literally
Bicyclists can often feel like people treat their infrastructure like crap, such as parking in the lanes on a regular basis and construction closing them without offering an alternative route. But now, people are literally moving their bowels instead of their bicycles on part of the 15th Street cycletrack: Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Housing progress or failure?
Halfway to affordable housing goal; Luxury over affordability; Pot enforcement highest in SE; No LOS in California; Bike lanes free up sidewalks; Who commutes by bike?; Bored at BWI? Go bike!; How Singapore seniors cross the road; Chocobo-oriented development?; And…. Keep reading…
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Can a bike escalator help riders up 15th Street’s steep hill?
DC will soon extend the 15th Street cycletrack north, but riders will have to puff up a very steep hill. Could that become easier with a piece of technology from Trondheim, Norway? Keep reading…
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The 15th Street cycletrack will soon continue up the hill to Columbia Heights
When the 15th Street cycletrack opened in 2010 with great fanfare, bicycle planners talked about extending it farther north. But attention shifted to other important projects. Now, it’s coming back, and the cycletrack should lengthen from V Street to Euclid Street sometime in 2015. Keep reading…
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Every DC & Arlington cycletrack, in one map
With DC’s M Street and 1st Street cycletracks on the ground, the central city network of protected bike lanes is starting to actually look like a network. Keep reading…