Barcelona. Photo by John Norquist via Richard Layman.

Save the trail, prevent other trails: Creators of the Capital Crescent Trail always intended it to run along with transit. A bike trail was a good immediate use of a temporarily unused transit ROW. Now that Montgomery residents opposed to transit are opposing the Purple Line because of the trail, one original trail planner regrets creating it in the first place. And, WashCycle explains, now transit advocates are opposing a new trail outside Seattle because of fears that once built, neighbors will use the trail to fight the already-planned transit line.

Cyclist sexually assaulted: Reader M.W. writes, “I was just riding my bike home from work and at 11th and W st NW someone rode by me on their bike and actually stuck their hand between my legs and groped me. All while I was on my bike — all I could manage to do was yell, I was so shocked. Has this happened to any other ladies nearby? That was seriously violating.” People like that make me hope there really is a hell.

Sule not a reformer after all? In November, Theresa Sule unseated old guard Barbara Curtis for one of the four seats on Shaw, Mount Vernon Square, and the Penn Quarter’s ANC 2C. The ANC had been deadlocked 2-2 for two years over the leadership of Chair Doris Brooks, who rarely distributed meeting agendas, abruptly canceled meetings, and more. Yesterday, Sule supported Brooks anyway, once again deadlocking ANC 2C. Life in Mount Vernon Square feels betrayed.

Two curb cuts for Social Safeway? Safeway is renovating their Georgetown store to front Wisconsin Avenue instead of sitting behind a large parking lot. They do want to keep their two curb cuts onto Wisconsin. Georgetown Metropolitan looks at whether this is wise.

Science fight in Gaithersburg: Johns Hopkins owns a large, sprawling farm in Gaithersburg, and wants to build a large, auto-dependent, sprawling campus. Environmental and citizens groups have asked the Planning Board to limit the development to a more compact area near a future Corridor Cities transitway stop, away from homes, and to limit building heights. How about keeping the heights but also limiting the sprawling form, and making sure we build the transit before the development?

DC GOP dumb on parking: The DC Republican Party responded to the meter rate hike with a knee-jerk response “saying the new rates will hurt businesses that depend on customers who drive to their stores.” Apparently the DC GOP hasn’t ever tried to find a downtown spot either.