Arlington County is replacing the bike lane on Clarendon Blvd between the Courthouse Wendy's and Il Radichio at the corner of Rhodes with a sharrowed lane. This is a really good idea. This section is downhill and when I ride it - as I often do - I'm usually going as fast or faster than other traffic, so riding in the door zone is not something I'm interested in.
I'll second the commenter who suggests extending the sharrows all the way to Lynn. I almost never use this section of bike lanes, and I like bike lanes.
Anyone have a photo? Add it to the washcycle flickr group.
I concur, DC ought to use a paired climbing lane/sharrow descent configuration more often. It seems like in past years, the solution to bike infrastructure when it hit a hill was to just give up (14th st bike lanes end at U, then start again at Columbia). The pair allows for slower ascents, while managing descent road sharing appropriately.
Posted by: will | December 08, 2010 at 04:54 PM
The bike lane on 14th Street ends at U because of a hill? I didn't know that - I just assumed it was because they just didn't draw a lane down there yet. (Not that it matters to me, since most of the time I'm riding outside the lane anyhow, given all the potholes, parked cars, and door-zone issues with those lanes.)
Posted by: Chris | December 08, 2010 at 05:08 PM
what would be really interesting is open 17th st to Freedom bike into Rosslyn as a bike option. Bypass the Rhodes-Lynn part of Clarendon Blvd.
Posted by: charlie | December 09, 2010 at 08:51 AM