At the panel on Southeast Federal Center, I asked Pat Daniels of GSA and Ramsey Meiser of Forest City about the bike design for the park, which appears to cram bikers, rollerbladers, runners and others into a narrow sharply-anged pathway at the edge of the park. Meiser and Daniels were confident that the park was going to be bike-friendly, though they couldn’t respond specifically to my question. When I drew a map of the weird twists and turns of the bike path, they seemed sure that wasn’t how it was. Perhaps the designs have changed, or perhaps they are wrong. Meiser said that the landscape architect who designed the park is himself a bike rider, so he wouldn’t design a park that didn’t work for bicycling. I hope the future drawings will bear that out.

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David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.