{"id":1437,"date":"2008-10-13T10:51:58","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T14:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2008-10-13T13:31:22","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T17:31:22","slug":"riding-the-gw-parkway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/10\/13\/riding-the-gw-parkway\/","title":{"rendered":"Riding the GW Parkway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washcycle has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewashcycle.com\/2008\/10\/biking-on-the-1.html\">interesting review of whether or not one can legally ride on the George Washington Memorial Parkway<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It appears that it <em>is not legal<\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">legal, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped Park Police from claiming otherwise<\/span> (and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankmail.com\/Fred\/Rt2Road.html#Forester\">occasionally citing people for it<\/a>).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 In the past year or so, I&#8217;ve taken to riding on the Parkway between Mt. Vernon and southern Alexandria, and have never been bothered by passing Park Police.\u00c2\u00a0 I have, however, garnered multiple fingers and honking horns from angry little men.\u00c2\u00a0 The road is very wide down there, and there&#8217;s plenty of room and easy sight-lines for everyone.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 I wouldn&#8217;t say the same for the portion of the Parkway north of Arlington (that section and Rock Creek Parkway are probably the only roads in DC I&#8217;d never ride on).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update: <\/strong>Allen Muchnick&#8217;s comment at the linked Washcycle post brings to light a recently updated set of regulations which appear to ban bikes from all parkways in the capital area.\u00c2\u00a0 How in the world a cyclist is expected to know about an unposted rule which is contrary to the law in the rest of the state is beyond me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washcycle has an interesting review of whether or not one can legally ride on the George Washington Memorial Parkway.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It appears that it is not legal legal, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped Park Police from claiming otherwise (and occasionally citing people for it).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 In the past year or so, I&#8217;ve taken to riding on the Parkway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-dc","category-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Washcycle has an interesting review of whether or not one can legally ride on the George Washington Memorial Parkway.\u00c2 \u00c2 It appears that it is not legal legal, but that hasn&#039;t stopped Park Police from claiming otherwise (and occasionally citing people for it).\u00c2 \u00c2 In the past year or so, I&#039;ve taken to riding on the Parkway\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"MB\"\/>\n\t<meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"cycling,dc,virginia\" \/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/10\/13\/riding-the-gw-parkway\/\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 5.0.1\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Blacknell.net | Politics, open government, and safe streets.  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