One of the most contentious battles in the war on cars comes to its final conclusion this Saturday when, in a resounding victory for the all-powerful bike lobby, the Klingle Valley Trail opens. There will be a ribbon cutting on Saturday morning between 10 and 11am followed by the lamentations of the drivers.
A ribbon cutting for the trail is scheduled for this Saturday, June 24th between 10am and 11am near the west trailhead. Join us to officially open the Klingle Valley Trail and welcome in a new chapter to the history of the Klingle Valley.
This project has been amazingly well managed. I love the regular updates on the website and, of course, that it was completed on time. I took a preview ride on Sunday (good thing because I'll be biking in Germany on Saturday) and the trail is AMAZING. It really is a trail in the middle of a park/nature preserve. It's steep - which may lead to some dangerous speeds by downhill cyclists, but the trail is wide, with nice green space and water treatment features all along it. And it's lit. It's enough to make me want to move.
The West Trail head
The Trail past the Connecticut Ave Bridge
Just inside the West Trail head
Connection to Klingle from the Rock Creek Park Trail
The trail approaching the Connecticut Ave Bridge
A little out of my way, but I'll check it out in the next couple of weeks.
Posted by: Crickey | June 20, 2017 at 06:51 PM
Ditto
Posted by: Ben | June 20, 2017 at 09:28 PM
Sorry, I don't see this as part of the "war on cars," but instead a triumph for rich folks west of RCP to keep poor folks from the other side from driving through their neighborhood (of course now, East of RCP poor folks are just folks after 15 years). Their cause had the added benefit of being environmentally friendly. If environmental issues were so paramount regarding preserving the pristine green space that is RCP, let's close all of Beach Drive to traffic, permanently.
I will enjoy the trail as a non-driver now, but this was a class issue, IMO.
Posted by: fongfong | June 21, 2017 at 08:45 AM
If Beach Drive were washed out, and if keeping it from happening again was prohibitively expensive there would likely be strong advocacy for closing it permanently. But as I recall, this was promoted as a War on Cars situation.
Posted by: washcycle | June 21, 2017 at 10:25 AM
Pretty sure the impoverished masses of Adams Morgan are still invading the land of the swells via Porter Street and Tilden.
Posted by: Crickey | June 21, 2017 at 12:13 PM
True those hordes are invading. But they definitely are not invading the world of the Maret School and the other $3 million homes that now will have a semi-private nature walk for their Bichon-Frisse.
BTW: Check out the wait times for crossing the park at Porter with the closing of Beach Drive. Epic.
Posted by: fongfong | June 21, 2017 at 01:13 PM
I was there for the opening yesterday. Really a great trail....job well done for everyone involved.
Posted by: Brett Young | June 25, 2017 at 11:20 PM