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Anonymous wrote:Mixed use trails are just that - mixed use! That means avid cyclers, walkers, runners, kids learning how to ride their bike. As someone who lives off the custis trail, I definitely see a bike commute culture between the hours of 7-9am and again 4-6pm. I LOVE that people ride to work. I tend to avoid the trails at those times. However, they don't own the trails. As a parent who taught her kids to ride their bikes on the bike trails, I avoided high peak use times.

They do not own the trails. They have the obligation to pass properly, on the left, and to call their passes. They are not obligated to treat the trail like a city sidewalk, and slow to walking speed when they pass. You need to let you kids know that the MUT does not function like a city sidewalk, or a walking path in a park.

Isn't a "multi use trail" and a "walking path in a park" the same exact thing?

A paved walking path in a park is theoretically open to bike riders as well - but the realities of the mix of uses is different.

Anonymous wrote:Every single pp on this post needs to get laid.

Just be sure to use birth control so we don't have to worry about more young kids riding on the sidewalk.

BIKE RIDERS.

They are awful. They don't follow the rules, they think no rules should apply to them because they are somehow more special than walkers or drivers.


Multi-use trails are for everyone and everyone- including bikers- needs to be cautious against injuring others and SHARING the path.

Don't ride next to each other like it's your trail.

There is a "hierarchy" of right of way on the trails, it's posted on the signs. On our part of of the W&OD trail it goes from highest to lowest- horseback riders, walkers, bikers.

You yield, which entails slowing down. You don't put another in danger by whizzing by a crazy speeds and clipping them and saying "well I said on your left".

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My biggest peeve is this, which has happened to me a couple of times on Wisconsin Avenue: traffic is backed up behind a slow biker, I patiently wait for a break in the left lane and pass the biker, and then when the cars stop at a light, the biker rides between the stopped cars and runs the red light to get back in front of us and then block the lane again.

There is nothing illegal about this. If it upsets you then you need to rethink your driving habit.

It's not illegal to run a red light while on a bike?

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Anonymous wrote:We're a family of runners and cyclists (DH commutes via bike and kids have biked to school and summer jobs), so we're on the Crescent Trail a lot. I don't hate anyone, but I do find it very annoying and rude when cyclists expect that saying "on your left" will immediately result in the runner,cyclist or walker they're trying to pass moving to the far right or even off the trail. On a multimodal trail, you need to accept that you'll have to slow down sometimes.

I can only speak for myself and not other cyclists, but when I say "on your left" it's not because I expect anyone to move off the trail. I say it because a lot of pedestrians or other cyclists will get into "their own little world" and will suddenly swerve to the left with no notice. By saying "on your left" I'm just warning them that I am coming and to not suddenly move directly in front of me. If the pedestrian/other cyclist maintains how they were going, it's all good

Exactly!

PP I take my DC's to ride on the cap crescent trail on the weekends with every other family out there and I am no pro and neither are they. They are little kids enjoying the ride and while I try to steer them in the right direction and teach them the "rules" about staying over to the right etc each time we are out there someone like you, probably meaning well, starts yelling at my kids "on your left, ON YOUR LEFT" to bring them out of "their own little world" where they are concentrating on the "rules" of the trail. Each time they have crashed into the brush while some pro bike riding asshat in full tour de france gear speeds off.

This is your problem, not the bicyclist's problem. If you kids can't ride well enough to negotiate traffic, you should take them to a park or let them ride on your sidewalk or something.

they ride just fine, why don't you take your $3000 racing bike and all your gear out into traffic and leave us alone or something

I ride a $600 dollar hybrid. I call on your left when passing a child rider, because I assume their parents want them to learn proper trail etiquette (or why would they be on the trail) and for the sake of safety. I do not yell "like a lunatic". I have never seen a kid go off the side when I do that. I will often call a word of encouragement as I pass "good job"

Well excuse me, perhaps it wasn't *you* on the trail. proper trail etiquette does not work when someone is screaming on your left when there is no time to react. That is, the rider is already on top of you and whizzing past. No one wants your encouragement. what they want is for you to slow down and recognize that you are on a shared, mixed-use trail. Otherwise take your gold plated huffy out on Connecticut Avenue where you become the hunted. These are the same pricks that hang out at starbucks and the bagel place all day in between "races" in their spandex.

Aren't you a little bundle of sunshine? If you can't follow trail etiquette, you don't belong on the trail. Pick a different activity for your snowflakes. It will be a shock to them when they find out that they have to share the world with other people. What are they going to do when they realize that the world doesn't revolve around them?

No.

A multi-use trail is like the paved path in Rock Creek or the WO&D. A walking path in the park is the gravel or dirt trail that goes through the woods.

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Anonymous wrote:Mixed use trails are just that - mixed use! That means avid cyclers, walkers, runners, kids learning how to ride their bike. As someone who lives off the custis trail, I definitely see a bike commute culture between the hours of 7-9am and again 4-6pm. I LOVE that people ride to work. I tend to avoid the trails at those times. However, they don't own the trails. As a parent who taught her kids to ride their bikes on the bike trails, I avoided high peak use times.

They do not own the trails. They have the obligation to pass properly, on the left, and to call their passes. They are not obligated to treat the trail like a city sidewalk, and slow to walking speed when they pass. You need to let you kids know that the MUT does not function like a city sidewalk, or a walking path in a park.

Isn't a "multi use trail" and a "walking path in a park" the same exact thing?

Every single pp on this post needs to get laid.

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My biggest peeve is this, which has happened to me a couple of times on Wisconsin Avenue: traffic is backed up behind a slow biker, I patiently wait for a break in the left lane and pass the biker, and then when the cars stop at a light, the biker rides between the stopped cars and runs the red light to get back in front of us and then block the lane again.

There is nothing illegal about this. If it upsets you then you need to rethink your driving habit.

I get annoyed at anyone who isn't me, on my preferred mode of transportation at that moment.

- Signed, everyone on this thread.

Anonymous wrote:People who run with dogs on their left. Your dog should be on your right, and likely on the grass, so you allow enough space for people to safely pass and not worry about your animal.

Dogs heel to the left. That's proper training.

That said, I never walk my dog on bike trails because even though he heels well, it seems like it would be a fairly joyless experience for him. On walks around our neighborhood, he has opportunities when no one's around and he can mosey on the verge, not heeling, and sniffing away.

Women who give me dirty looks when I ogle them in their sports bras and yoga pants

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Anonymous wrote:People who let their kids ride their bikes on the sidewalk and then get mad when you are in their way while walking. If you are old enough to ride in the street, do it. If not, go to a park with your kids to ride. Bikes don't belong on the sidewalk, regardless of the age of the rider.

I can't stand adults who do this. I've stopped moving out of their way

Not with you on this one.

We live close-in and to get to done of the trails we would have to be on extremely busy, fast roads with zero shoulders. I'm not putting an 8-year old on those--that's stupid. We are very respectful,, go extremely slow and dismount and push the bikes if the sidewalks are crowded.

Not to mention the super fast cars speeding thru our neighborhood looking for parking. My kid and his power ranger bike with training wheels is on the sidewalks--and sometimes that is the retail/pedestrian section. He's less offensive than the giant fat asses two abreast that leave zero space for people coming the opposite direction.

Agreed. A bike ride in the park isn't real exercise. We bike on the trail, but have some roads to cross on the way there that are't bike friendly. I'm not putting my kid in harms' way, but I am teaching him to be respectful on the sidewalk.

Anonymous wrote:I spend a lot of time outside and definitely have some pet peeves working out outdoors. Any others?

1) 75% of the bikers on the Capitol Crescent Trail are THE WORST! Especially the weekend-warriors. They are rude and horrible with their stupid and unappealing bike shorts and bike shirts, literally screaming at everyone that they're coming through. they speed through not caring who they nearly kill. and then they have the nerve to scream at pedestrians on the trail to SHARE THE TRAIL!

2) anyone talking on their cellphone, not hands-free...while walking their dog. They drift all over the trail and don't pay attention to their surroundings

3) dog SHIT on the trail

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Anonymous wrote:People who let their kids ride their bikes on the sidewalk and then get mad when you are in their way while walking. If you are old enough to ride in the street, do it. If not, go to a park with your kids to ride. Bikes don't belong on the sidewalk, regardless of the age of the rider.

I can't stand adults who do this. I've stopped moving out of their way

Not with you on this one.

We live close-in and to get to done of the trails we would have to be on extremely busy, fast roads with zero shoulders. I'm not putting an 8-year old on those--that's stupid. We are very respectful,, go extremely slow and dismount and push the bikes if the sidewalks are crowded.

Not to mention the super fast cars speeding thru our neighborhood looking for parking. My kid and his power ranger bike with training wheels is on the sidewalks--and sometimes that is the retail/pedestrian section. He's less offensive than the giant fat asses two abreast that leave zero space for people coming the opposite direction.

They speed while they're looking for parking? Usually people looking for parking drive slowly.
Did the traffic-inducing retail come into the neighborhood after you already moved in?
Do you really think it's ok for your child to block the sidewalk because he is young?
Do you think obese people have less of a right to walk down the street than you do?