No Riding on Sidewalks

 For two mornings, a bike was parked on the sidewalk of the bridge that carries 16th St. NW over Piney Branch Parkway. The second morning, I half wheeled, half dragged it south thirty yards or so to where I could leave it on some grass. The injunction "no riding on sidewalks"

particularly annoyed me.

I understand the attraction of bicycles and scooters to be rented for short rides. I do not like to have to pick my way past them where the last rider has chosen to leave them. Quite often this is in the middle of of a sidewalk, often enough it is in an inconvenient place on the sidewalk.

In most of Washington, DC, it is within the regulations to ride a bicycle on the sidewalk. Of course that may not be so for powered bicycles such as this one.