Originally Posted by
Rob22315
On my regular commute, there's a big hill where traffic can get bad. I ride up on the sidewalk and down on the street.
I did this when I took the Mass Ave route to work.
Originally Posted by
Ghost Ryder
If you can't make it up a hill, take the walk of shame.
By all means,come to DC and ride up the hill on upper Mass Ave. I'll send flowers to your funeral. The street is marked 35,but no-one does this;many folks gun it up the hill. It's a very steep hill,so keeping with traffic isn't an option unless you're a CAT I racer. In all the years I did this route,I encountered a ped 2,maybe 3 times.
Wisc Ave between Bethesda and Friendship Heights is pretty flat,but on the rare occasions I take this road,I do the sidewalk. It's three lanes in each direction,but despite being marked 35 it's a main route into/out of the city,so it's essentially become an expressway where people do highway speeds. The couple times I rode in the street,I got buzzed close,even though I was taking the lane and there were 2 other empty lanes. That's just how it is here.
Please don't try to shame people into doing things that they don't feel comfortable with,or that are actually dangerous. You don't live here,so you don't know what our traffic conditions are like. DC was the area that originally coined the term 'aggressive driving'.