Thursday Afternoon Commute - Red Face

Good afternoon

• "The Metropolitan Branch Trail is now open for public use through the SS Transit Center"
• It's getting warm out there, which means a different kind of bike commuting, and the Capital Weather Gang wants to know your thoughts about it. 
• "If you like to bike and you like birds, it’s hard to beat a ride through Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge on Maryland’s Eastern Shore."
• Another - more realistic - improvement to street smart literature below, by Rick Servoss
• Bike proposals that could change cities.
• This might be a sign that the accustions are taking a financial toll on Armstrong. 

Comments

[Michael H.]

The famous Eagleman Triathlon course runs through the Blackwater Wildlife Refuge. Very little shade but a nice place to ride. As long as it isn't 90F and you're out there for 3 hours or more, with insufficient sunscreen.

[7]

...with insufficient sunscreen or no bug juice. Perish the thought of a flat tire out there as you will fast become a meal for voracious bugs. Happened to me during a Church Creek Time Trial - which also goes by that area. On the bright side: it was the fastest flat tire repair I ever did!

[oboe]

re: the "take the lane graphic"

Very cool! Now, if you just make that auto an Yukon XL with Maryland "ag" plates, and a little speech bubble saying "Get the Hell out of the road, beeyotch!" it perfectly captures the DC metro cycling experience.

:)

[highvizguy]

@oboe-If you see a Lincoln Navigator SUV w/ DC Plates "G Music" you should probably just get out of the road entirely. That guy will go out of his way to come as close to you as possible.