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10TH ANNIVERSARY
DC JAZZFESTIVAL JUNE 24 –29, 2014 DC Jazz Festival and Events DC Present: Jazz at the Capitol Riverfront
Rebirth Brass Band
Gregory Porter
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Bicyclists, pedestrians and motorists intersect at North Lynn Street, where the Custis Trail and Lee Highway meet in Rosslyn.
Yasiin Bey (AKA Mos Def) and Special Guest
Irma Thomas
Tia Fuller Quintet 6/27 THE LOT AT UNION KITCHEN*
6/27 & 28 6/25 SIXTH & I BOHEMIAN CAVERNS HISTORIC SYNAGOGUE
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Arlington May is National Bike Month, but the celebration is off to an inauspicious start in Arlington, where a resident says she was ticketed in her hospital room after being hit by a car. The incident has revived anger in Rosslyn, Va., over what cyclists call “the intersection of doom” — the point where Lee Highway meets North Lynn Street, and bicyclists coming off the Custis Trail face off against two lanes of cars turning right off Interstate 66 onto the Key Bridge. Lindsey Kelley says she was biking through the crosswalk at the intersection when she was hit by a gold sedan. A U.S. Park Police officer asked whether she was hurt and needed an ambulance; she said yes. She saw the officer again later, when he came to the hospital and gave her a $70 ticket for “disregarding traffic signs or road markings.” “He said, ‘Don’t get your blood pressure raised; here’s your ID and here’s your ticket,’ ” Kelley recalled. He said a witness had told him that she was not in the crosswalk when she was hit. She protested, and he told her he didn’t see the crash. Kelley suffered a sprained wrist and a mild concussion. She said she had three flashing lights on her bike
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Block Party at the D.C. Jazz Lot
Jazz@Wesley UPTOWN**
Helen Sung Quintet
‘Intersection of Doom’
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6/27 & 28 WESLEY UMC
6/26 AT HAMILTON LIVE
THE WASHINGTON POST
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NIKKI KAHN (THE WASHINGTON POST)
JUNE 27 – 29
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Sharing the Road According to Arlington County, about 1,700 cyclists bike the Custis Trail on a typical weekday. At the height of the morning rush, approximately 600 cars an hour turn right to access the Key Bridge, and about 250 bicyclists cross Lynn Street in that period. The county has discussed extending the street curbs and adding traffic and trail signals to improve visibility and flow. (T WP)
when she was hit. She had taken a bike safety class with the Washington Area Bicyclist Association. She took a picture after the crash, before the ambulance arrived, of her bike lying in the crosswalk. It i s not t he f i r s t t i me a biker has been hit at that spot. ArlNow.com, which first reported Kelley’s accident, has recorded several such incidents — including three in one week in 2011. The problem, cyclists say, is that they have the green light to continue from the Custis Trail to the Mount Vernon Trail or the Key Bridge by
crosswalk at the same time that cars are able to turn right. “Everyone I know who has gone through there regularly has had very close calls,” said Gillian Burgess, a member of the Arlington Bicycle Advisory Committee. “It’s a frustrating situation for motorists. The problem is, when they get frustrated, they put other people’s lives in danger.” Arlington police are aware of the problem and conduct safety education campaigns in the area as well as issuing tickets, spokesman Dustin Sternbeck said. R ACHEL WEINER (THE WASHINGTON POST )