Year: 2012 Page 5 of 11
M83 + Men At Work = City Down Under:
This week my Clarendon Cycles column touched on a topic that, over the past year, has moved from mildly annoying to outright ridiculous: the proliferation of useless bollards on area trails. Â If Arlington County had merely been slow in removing what are obviously pretty useless obstacles, I can’t say I’d be terribly moved by the issue. Â But someone in Arlington County recently decided that the problem is that we don’t have enough bollards. Â If I didn’t know better, I’d say the new installation at the East Falls Church bridge was an effort at satire, but I don’t think it came out of Arlington County’s art budget.
(Recent bollard ridiculousness isn’t limited to Arlington – the new ones in the middle of the Mount Vernon Trail at the base of the Wilson Bridge? Â Are apparently there to keep Teh Terrorists away. Â That’s right, we’re worried that terrorists just might drive over the Wilson Bridge. Â Christ.)
So it turns out there was no official photographer for the 2012 Air Force Cycling Classic Crystal Ride this year. I wasn’t out shooting it, but I did end up with hundreds of photos as I was out there looking at locations for shooting the pro races later in the day. So, in case you know anyone who was looking for photos, here’s more than a few. Simple copies from the site?  Free.  Something that requires more work from me?  Not free (but not expensive).
(I got a great interview with the fellow pictured above. Â It’ll run as one on my Clarendon Cycles columns, soon.)
