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All around town in the Flickr pool
Here are our favorite new images from the Greater and Lesser Washington Flickr pool, showcasing the best and worst of the Washington region.
Poplar Street. Photo by Joe in DC.
Yoga in Dupont Circle. Photo by ekelly80.
Euclid Street, Adams Morgan. Photo by afagen.
Metro. Photo by Joe in DC.
Roosevelt Island Barrier. Photo by Rootchopper.
Got a picture that depicts the best or worst of Washington? Great photos of things like people enjoying walkable places, lack of people in unwalkable places, transit, pedestrians, bicycles, cars, parking lots, parks, historic buildings, modern buildings, stores, urban decay, new development, and other similar elements in DC, Maryland, and Virginia will get you featured in this weekly highlight. Make sure to join our Flickr pool and submit your own photos!
 | Aimee Custis is the Communications Manager at the Coalition for Smarter Growth. A policy wonk by training and a public transportation advocate by profession, she moved to DC in 2008 to learn everything she could about walkable communities, transit, and public policy. She's also a photography nerd and contributor at YPT Voice.    |
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by James on Jul 13, 2012 3:31 pm • link • report
by aaa on Jul 13, 2012 3:50 pm • link • report
More likely it was to keep clueless tourists from wandering into the way of trail users. [/snark]
I haven't been able to find a good explanation anywhere for the barriers, but that particular spot is one where there's a lot of possibilities for collisions. The trail crossings in that parking lot make little to no sense, with two 90 degree turns on either side of crossing the parking lot, which is why many cyclists would take the ramp that's to the left of the picture above (out of frame) and ride through the lot to rejoin the trail at the end of the parking lot. Parking lot users would also walk on the trail, seemingly with no concept that it *was* a throughway being used by other people, making use of the marked trail there more difficult than simply going through the lot.
According to the WashCycle the barriers had come down sometime before the 8th of July, but were back up as of the 11th, and are now even tighter than they had been before.
by Moose on Jul 13, 2012 4:56 pm • link • report
by Joe Flood on Jul 15, 2012 10:11 am • link • report
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