Yesterday was the first day the Woodrow Wilson Bridge was open to bike
and pedestrian traffic. Despite the cold I'm recovering from, I decided
I wanted to be part of this history. So I met up with a bunch of other
bicyclists on the Maryland side. (For those of you from out of town,
the Wilson Bridge is the part of the Beltway that goes across the
Potomac at a relatively wide point.) Going with a group definitely gave
me the confidence to do this, but now that I know the way, I realize
that the only difficult part is going uphill to reach the bridge.
(Contributing factors may have been my cold, and the fact that I was
nervous about shifting the front gear to first based on some recent
problems.) I shot the video below from my handlebars.

The organized ride included 4 more miles around Alexandria (or a longer
trek to Mount Vernon). Once I realized, though, that I could just turn
around and go home, I opted to turn back. Anyway, it's a neat new place
to ride...you can look off the bridge at the Capitol and Washington
Monument, for example. Hopefully in coming years, Maryland will connect
it to more of its trail network.

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Posted By Jon to Android's Dungeon at 6/07/2009 08:28:00 PM