06 April 2009

Almost-Whitecaps on the Tidal Basin

OK - I thought that this was going to be more dramatic - but maybe you can tell - it was really windy on Saturday. Windy enough to almost turn my run down to to the cherry blossoms and parade and back into a very grouchy walk. But I did manage to make it both ways - and even passed a guy on a bike who was taking up a whole lot of sidewalk space on the 16th Street hill. Which leads me to a question - why is there no bike lane on 16th Street? . . . or 14th or 18th? Hills are a good place for bike lanes, since bikes on hills are so out of whack with the flow of both pedestrian and car traffic, right? As much as I like the confidence boost that running past a bike gives me, even that was shortlived, since he sped past me at the top of the hill. And really, what other benefits are there to this awkward space-sharing?

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