Tuesday Morning Commute - NHB

I noticed that this building along the Met Branch Trail between V and W was recently razed. Does anyone know what's going in it's place?

• There's going to be a ribbon cutting for the Nannie Helen Burroughs Avenue Great Streets Project today at 1pm. DDOT doesn't have any new photos of it on Flickr, and I haven't been out there, but the project includes bike lanes and improvements to the Marvin Gaye Park Trail.
• Tonight, July 24, 2012 from 6:30-8:30pm GWMP will host an Open House informational meeting at Washington-Lee High School on the Arlington County and Vicinity Non-Motorized Boathouse Facility EIS process. A short group presentation will begin at 7:00pm, the remainder of the time be in an "Open House" format with staff available at presentation boards. This meeting is being held so that interested people can learn more about the EIS process, have an opportunity to view preliminary alternatives and submit written comments about these alternatives. All are welcome to attend.
• There will alsol be a pre-construction meeting to discuss upcoming construction work and construction hours for the Charles Barrett Safe Routes to School project on Tonight at 7pm at Charles Barrett Library located at 1115 Martha Custis Drive in Alexandria. The proposal includes "adding bicycle "sharrow" markings to mark on-road bikeways".
• There was an attempted robbery/assault on the Georgetown Branch Trail earlier this month. "Two male suspects assaulted the victim and unsuccessfully attempted to remove property from the victim. "

Comments

[SJE]

Assault/Robbery:
From the map, this appears to be where the Bethesda tunnel meets the GBT.

[CyclingFool]

Meant to post this here instead of in the more topic-specific war on cars post for this morning. Sorry for the double post.

From the Alexandria BPAC list:

"Around 7:45 a female cyclist was hit crossing the GW parkway just south of Memorial Bridge. She appeared to be in critical condition. This continues to be a dangerous crossing."

How many victims will it take before they do more than paint a couple rumble strips?

[T]

As someone pointed out on BikeArlington in the battle over funding it unfortunately is cars vs mass transit vs mups because all three rely on gas tax dollars. Less cars=less tax dollars=less money to go around. The more cars off the road, the less money. The more riders, costs more money.

[washcycle]

T, I think you're at the wrong post. But...yes, there is only limited funding. But if people only walked and biked everywhere, we wouldn't need gas taxes - the whole transportation system could be covered by the current subsidy. So moving people from car to bike frees up more money than it costs - which means more money for cars.