spring soon?
3/22/2018 6:22 PM
The ride to work was a bit warmer than I expected (54°F/12.2°C at the garage door). Arlington's (main*) trails were plowed, and things (were plowed or) had melted off around Roosevelt Island, so that was mostly clear. There's a short bit of boardwalk that was not in great shape, and may be dicey tonight. (If you're continuing along the river instead of crossing over on the bridge, you're on that boardwalk a lot farther. There were also many spots along the trail in Arlington with draining melt that could freeze over tonight and be dangerous, if it's cold enough. Maybe there's de-icing chemicals still out there.
I hadn't thought about this earlier yesterday, but my paved route now has the first 3/4 mile on sidewalks, and they might not all have been shoveled. But they were clear - either from shoveling, enough general melting, or melting agents splashed off the adjacent road surface.
After Monday night's work (replacing the fraying cable), the bike's shifting is much better, and the chain is quieter.
People were very chatty in the office today - maybe because people had been out 2 days. I don't know how many people came in Tuesday, but I stayed home. And federal government offices were closed Wednesday, and opened 2 hours late today.
*I don't think they treat/plow all the trails. And a lot of the trails probably don't have much commuter traffic. They have counters to know how much and when the trails are used. The trail I take for my all-paved route is a major cycling artery continuing out through Fairfax county (Falls Church, Vienna, Reston, Ashburn, Leesburg, Purcellville).
Notorious ARL
http://www.bikearlington.com/event/notorious-arl/?instance_id=896 March 31, 2018 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Join us for an approximately three hour ride of Notorious Arlington sites. We have a 17-mile course mapped out with multiple points of interest, each dealing with darker subject matter including terrorism, crime, espionage, and bigotry.
Clearing Snow on Trails
https://emergency.arlingtonva.us/weather/snow-ice/clearing-snow-on-trails/The Department of Parks and Recreation will treat and clear up to 10 miles of high-volume, multi-use County trails this snow season. The goal is to give the most heavily used County trails the same priority and response time as primary arterial streets. The actual response time and trail conditions will vary as the ease of snow removal can greatly differ from one event to the next.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/arlington-to-plow-10-miles-of-bike-trails-after-snowstorms/2014/11/13/ec957f46-6b57-11e4-b053-65cea7903f2e_story.html?utm_term=.7ef707110aa9“It’s absolutely important,” said Greg Billing, advocacy coordinator with the Washington Area Bicycle Association. “Cold weather doesn’t deter people from riding to work. What stops people is snow on the trails. And every person who is not biking . . . is crowding a Metro train or bus, or driving.”
Thu Mar 22 22:00 EDT 2018
There was a lot of melting today. The only snow left tonight was either in piles or in heavy shade. It was still about 40°F/4.4°C when I came home, so there wasn't any melt-off refreezing on the trails or roads.
There was another cyclist behind me the last mile home, but he didn't come up alongside me at the red light we stopped for. (In my mirror) He had much more of his face covered (I had just a headband), so I guess he's either bothered by the cold more than I am, or he was going much farther. (Although I was going almost 10 miles (16km).) He continued on past my house, and after another block I'm not keen about biking on that road - unless it's very late, so there's no traffic.
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/967080.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]
The ride to work was a bit warmer than I expected (54°F/12.2°C at the garage door). Arlington's (main*) trails were plowed, and things (were plowed or) had melted off around Roosevelt Island, so that was mostly clear. There's a short bit of boardwalk that was not in great shape, and may be dicey tonight. (If you're continuing along the river instead of crossing over on the bridge, you're on that boardwalk a lot farther. There were also many spots along the trail in Arlington with draining melt that could freeze over tonight and be dangerous, if it's cold enough. Maybe there's de-icing chemicals still out there.
I hadn't thought about this earlier yesterday, but my paved route now has the first 3/4 mile on sidewalks, and they might not all have been shoveled. But they were clear - either from shoveling, enough general melting, or melting agents splashed off the adjacent road surface.
After Monday night's work (replacing the fraying cable), the bike's shifting is much better, and the chain is quieter.
People were very chatty in the office today - maybe because people had been out 2 days. I don't know how many people came in Tuesday, but I stayed home. And federal government offices were closed Wednesday, and opened 2 hours late today.
*I don't think they treat/plow all the trails. And a lot of the trails probably don't have much commuter traffic. They have counters to know how much and when the trails are used. The trail I take for my all-paved route is a major cycling artery continuing out through Fairfax county (Falls Church, Vienna, Reston, Ashburn, Leesburg, Purcellville).
Notorious ARL
http://www.bikearlington.com/event/notorious-arl/?instance_id=896 March 31, 2018 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Join us for an approximately three hour ride of Notorious Arlington sites. We have a 17-mile course mapped out with multiple points of interest, each dealing with darker subject matter including terrorism, crime, espionage, and bigotry.
Clearing Snow on Trails
https://emergency.arlingtonva.us/weather/snow-ice/clearing-snow-on-trails/The Department of Parks and Recreation will treat and clear up to 10 miles of high-volume, multi-use County trails this snow season. The goal is to give the most heavily used County trails the same priority and response time as primary arterial streets. The actual response time and trail conditions will vary as the ease of snow removal can greatly differ from one event to the next.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/arlington-to-plow-10-miles-of-bike-trails-after-snowstorms/2014/11/13/ec957f46-6b57-11e4-b053-65cea7903f2e_story.html?utm_term=.7ef707110aa9“It’s absolutely important,” said Greg Billing, advocacy coordinator with the Washington Area Bicycle Association. “Cold weather doesn’t deter people from riding to work. What stops people is snow on the trails. And every person who is not biking . . . is crowding a Metro train or bus, or driving.”
Thu Mar 22 22:00 EDT 2018
There was a lot of melting today. The only snow left tonight was either in piles or in heavy shade. It was still about 40°F/4.4°C when I came home, so there wasn't any melt-off refreezing on the trails or roads.
There was another cyclist behind me the last mile home, but he didn't come up alongside me at the red light we stopped for. (In my mirror) He had much more of his face covered (I had just a headband), so I guess he's either bothered by the cold more than I am, or he was going much farther. (Although I was going almost 10 miles (16km).) He continued on past my house, and after another block I'm not keen about biking on that road - unless it's very late, so there's no traffic.
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/967080.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]