Many of the City Paper's "Best of" categories had to do with biking this year. Here's a brief run down of them:
Best Bike Lane - L Street Cycletrack
Best Bike Trail - Anacostia Riverwalk Trail
Best Bike Shop - The Bike Rack (runner-up Bicycle Space and then Capitol Hill Bikes)
Best Bike Shop for Biking Newbies - District Hardware and the Bike Shop
Best Place to Get a Flat Tire Fixed - BicycleSpace
Best Place to Get your Bike Fixed - BicycleSpace (runner-up The Bike Rack and then Capitol Hill Bikes)
Best Late Night Bike Route - Madison and Jefferson Drives
Best Place to Get Hit While Riding a Bike - Connecticut Ave NW
Best Argument for the War on Cars - Wendy's and "Dave Thomas Circle" (so named in 2005 by DDOT in Appendix B.3 of the New York Avenue Corridor Study - see below) which won it's own Best Of award
So, Connecticut is the best place to get hit? Silly me for getting hit on 14th or Columbia.
Posted by: Slappy J | April 13, 2015 at 12:09 PM
Ridiculous. I ride Connecticut Ave. all the time. It's fine. And the bonus is flying Southbound over the Taft Bridge on a glorious morning. I do not exagerrate when I tell you this is one of the most amazing things you can do in all of DC.
Posted by: Crickey7 | April 13, 2015 at 12:23 PM
16th Street is ten times worse.
Posted by: Crickey7 | April 13, 2015 at 12:25 PM
No Best Bike Blog? Have they eliminated that category because of lack of competition?
Posted by: contrarian | April 13, 2015 at 12:38 PM
I think that would be Tales From the Sharrows.
Posted by: washcycle | April 13, 2015 at 12:44 PM
He consistently states that he is the xx-th most read bike blog in DC.
I guess most-read (and most commented on) aren't necessarily the same as "best."
Posted by: DE | April 13, 2015 at 01:50 PM
I've been riding Connecticut Ave. every weekday morning for the past couple of years and have yet to be able to "fly southbound" over the Taft Bridge. Beautiful view, I'll give you that, but traffic is always stop-and-go for me. Do you lane-split? My balance needs some work...
Posted by: EG | April 13, 2015 at 03:12 PM
I AM MOSES.
Posted by: Crickey7 | April 13, 2015 at 05:22 PM
I also know the width of my handlebars to the millimeter.
Posted by: Crickey7 | April 13, 2015 at 05:27 PM