Talk:Capital Crescent Trail

External link - savethetrail.org

I don't think that link is appropriately added to this article at this time and have removed it for the second time. For better or for worse the current Purple Line controversy is not mentioned at all here - it is instead (pretty extensively) discussed at Purple Line (Maryland). That article, it should be noted, has plenty of advocacy links, on both sides of the issue, but there they serve to round out a discussion, in the article, that lays out both sides of the issue. Here the link is a non sequitur. Until there is something here to give the link context, it just looks like POV pushing to me. (If I find time I will try to add something here about the Purple Line (certainly it is pertinent to the CCT's future) but it may be a while and I'm not sure I really know enough about the whole thing to do a creditable job.) Please do not reintroduce the link without discussing it here. JohnInDC (talk) 01:51, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

For better or worse I had nothing to do with the posting of that link in question, and I won't get involved in the revision war by reposting it, but I must say it sounds at least semi-relevant and therefore the link should not have been removed. People who aren't interested in the link simply won't follow it, and I see no probablem with having an expansive list of links at some section at the end. In comparison, the academic literature is often full of tangential links, and rightfully so because it makes the literature easier to navigate using the citation index, including searching the citation index by reverse-links. (IE you find new results by looking for all papers citing an older paper you know about.) The google index makes use of the link-structure of the web, so search engines do this in spades.

173.66.241.122 (talk) 15:19, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

Photo out of date

The top photo of the trail in Bethesda is now out of date. The section of the trail shown, and the vantage spot from which it was taken, now skirt a construction site in a slightly realigned corridor enclosed within plywood hoardings. When the construction has finished - in around 2 years - the trail will run directly alongside a large mixed use retail / condominium development. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.83.136.23 (talk) 04:20, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Could someone include more detailed remarks about smoothness of the pavement

The article has a one-word mention of rollerblading, which isn't sufficiently helpful in my case.

Often people who have never roller-bladed before claim that trails are available for rollerblading, but when you actually go out to try it you find they aren't: For a trail to be truly usable for rollerblading it needs to be extremely smooth, or else the vibrations make your knees hurt in 10 minutes are less. For example, cement with lots of small rocks in it is unacceptable for rollerblading, although bikers won't even notice. If there are lots of twigs and dirt around then things can become dangerous as well, as if it is crowded with biker who often pass into the oncoming lane without realizing the difficulty that rollerbladers may have avoiding them safely. Brick pavement is completely unrollerbladeable, because rollerblade brakes don't work on bricks. (That isn't because of lack of friction, but rather that you can't actually hold the brake down when the small brick cracks keep making the skate rotate forward.)

Could someone who has actually tried rollerblading on the trail please comment about the pavement conditions and such? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.66.241.122 (talk) 15:28, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

Although some folks might find the information useful, it's not really in line with the purpose of Wikipedia, which is as an encyclopedia and not as a product or service review site. Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not is a little preachy but gives a good sense of this. Consistent with this mission, Wikipedia is also intended to include material that can be tied back to a reliable third party source. If, then, a rollerblading publication had assessed the trail for that purpose and had written an article about it or included it in a ranking, then maybe that reference could find its way here - but failing that, any discussion here of the suitability of the CCT for rollerblading would be the editor's personal opinion, based on his / her own experience, and as such not be suitable for inclusion. I hope this is helpful! JohnInDC (talk) 14:24, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

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