We live off of Seminary and the traffic and cut through traffic in our neighborhood is already a huge issue. This will only exacerbate the problem.
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LAMORA POGUE
7 years ago
I have to travel these streets daily as I access Alexandria Hospital for treatment. The rduced traffic speed has already encouraged e to find neighborhood streets to ease my commute. This is a very bad idea, one of several the transportation department has recommended.
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Sabrina Wear
7 years ago
Keep Seminary Road as is.
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Patricia lopez
7 years ago
Every roadway that feeds into the streets having bike lanes now have extremely long waits to pull onto roads,
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Gant Redmon
7 years ago
This has to do with common sense: Seminary Road should remain 4 vehicular lanes for any number of good reasons already articulated.
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KENNETH A COHEN
7 years ago
It is vexing that our local representatives seriously consider catering to the whims of a small narrowly-focused (bikers) minority to the detriment of so many tax-paying citizen constituents. It is even more galling inasmuch as this initiative is driven by seemingly unfounded safety concerns.
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E David Quidas
7 years ago
North Van Dorn street has already been unreasonably restricted with a biking lane that I have NEVER seen used by a bicyclist; not once.
Please don't do the same to Seminary Rd. It is already nearly impossible to make the left turn from N. Pickett St. onto west bound Seminary because already frustrated motorists "block the box" at that intersection. Adding biking lanes will only exacerbate the frustration and road rage.
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Julia Sutherland
7 years ago
As a Seminary Ridge resident and regular user of Seminary Road between Quaker and Howard, the existing congestion that we experience on a daily basis strongly suggests that the loss of two traffic lanes would very quickly create gridlock. Please do not reduce the number of vehicle lanes on Seminary Road.
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Evan L Tracey
7 years ago
stop the madness, no more bike lanes and rental scooters!
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Barbara Portis
7 years ago
The bike lanes are simply not used enough to keep the existing ones or creating new ones on major arteries like Van Dorn, Seminary, etc. The traffic is only going to get heavier, not less, with the current plans for the City.
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Anonymous
7 years ago
T&ES is destroying our streets.
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Janis Lenderman
7 years ago
If you had not let them build a multistoried office building, and chose a site with a metro stop,
My neighborhood would not have lost many trees and green space
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Dreyer Joan
7 years ago
I am absolutely for keeping Seminary Road as is with 4 lanes. In my 35 years of living in the West End, never experienced such a difficulty getting out of my driveway and entering 95. A one mile trip now takes almost 15 minutes during non-rush hours and with 4 lanes. So how would the Fire Trucks and Ambulances travel with only 2 lanes available? Why are we wasting taxpayers dollars by constructing useless projects? I watched the so called improvements at the intersection of Picket and Pegram. The protected right turn was eliminated and replaced with a cross-walk, divider and a Stop sign. Well the school buses couldn't make the turn so the sign was constantly knocked over and the brick edging destroyed by the weight of the school buses. So it was redesigned and constructed a second time. Why don't apply fund to projects that truly benefit the community; road paving upkeep and rethink the suicide traffic conditions at the 95, Seminary Rd, Kenmore Ave areas. Also agree with several of the commentators, increase the speed back to the original; 25 is far too slow for such a heavily traveled stretch of road.
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Elinor Coleman
7 years ago
Your suggested plan is not sound thinking. If you are truly concerned for the public safety you would cancel the scooter program and create sidewalks to public schools throughout the city.
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Robert Bossa
7 years ago
The safety issue does not exist between Quaker and Howard St. the safety issues exist between the hospital and 395. Please don’t give into the demands of alexandria’s Affluent residents. They bought along Seminary Road. They should not be able to increase their home values by changing Seminary road from 4 lanes to 2 lanes.
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Richard Crowley
7 years ago
I do not feel that major traffic routes should be used for bicycles. There are better alternatives.
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Margaret T Janowsky
7 years ago
As a resident on a high volume street (Braddock Road), I strongly urge opposition to pushing the car traffic onto the side streets. Keep cars on our main thoroughfares (we knew what we were getting into) and put the bike lanes on the side streets where they'd be safer for all involved. Keep our main arteries flowing safely!
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Anonymous
7 years ago
The explosion of unneeded bike lanes in the City of Alexandria is a waste of taxpayer resources! Rarely do I EVER see bikers using the bike lanes that already exist!
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Melanie Alvord
7 years ago
Any reduction of lanes on Seminary Road will not only negatively impact traffic for those traveling on it by car, but also exacerbate the problem by clogging on and exit ramps for I-395 impacting drivers whose destination or departure does not include Seminary Road. Any potential benefit is out weighed by the additional congestion this will create and given the complexity of sections of Seminary Road will not encourage new cyclists.
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Richard W Burris
7 years ago
Seminary road is a major traffic route and a decrease of auto lanes will clog our neighborhood. A similar thing was done on a section of Van Dorn and I have never seen a bicycle use the bike lane.
We live off of Seminary and the traffic and cut through traffic in our neighborhood is already a huge issue. This will only exacerbate the problem.
I have to travel these streets daily as I access Alexandria Hospital for treatment. The rduced traffic speed has already encouraged e to find neighborhood streets to ease my commute. This is a very bad idea, one of several the transportation department has recommended.
Keep Seminary Road as is.
Every roadway that feeds into the streets having bike lanes now have extremely long waits to pull onto roads,
This has to do with common sense: Seminary Road should remain 4 vehicular lanes for any number of good reasons already articulated.
It is vexing that our local representatives seriously consider catering to the whims of a small narrowly-focused (bikers) minority to the detriment of so many tax-paying citizen constituents. It is even more galling inasmuch as this initiative is driven by seemingly unfounded safety concerns.
North Van Dorn street has already been unreasonably restricted with a biking lane that I have NEVER seen used by a bicyclist; not once. Please don't do the same to Seminary Rd. It is already nearly impossible to make the left turn from N. Pickett St. onto west bound Seminary because already frustrated motorists "block the box" at that intersection. Adding biking lanes will only exacerbate the frustration and road rage.
As a Seminary Ridge resident and regular user of Seminary Road between Quaker and Howard, the existing congestion that we experience on a daily basis strongly suggests that the loss of two traffic lanes would very quickly create gridlock. Please do not reduce the number of vehicle lanes on Seminary Road.
stop the madness, no more bike lanes and rental scooters!
The bike lanes are simply not used enough to keep the existing ones or creating new ones on major arteries like Van Dorn, Seminary, etc. The traffic is only going to get heavier, not less, with the current plans for the City.
T&ES is destroying our streets.
If you had not let them build a multistoried office building, and chose a site with a metro stop, My neighborhood would not have lost many trees and green space
I am absolutely for keeping Seminary Road as is with 4 lanes. In my 35 years of living in the West End, never experienced such a difficulty getting out of my driveway and entering 95. A one mile trip now takes almost 15 minutes during non-rush hours and with 4 lanes. So how would the Fire Trucks and Ambulances travel with only 2 lanes available? Why are we wasting taxpayers dollars by constructing useless projects? I watched the so called improvements at the intersection of Picket and Pegram. The protected right turn was eliminated and replaced with a cross-walk, divider and a Stop sign. Well the school buses couldn't make the turn so the sign was constantly knocked over and the brick edging destroyed by the weight of the school buses. So it was redesigned and constructed a second time. Why don't apply fund to projects that truly benefit the community; road paving upkeep and rethink the suicide traffic conditions at the 95, Seminary Rd, Kenmore Ave areas. Also agree with several of the commentators, increase the speed back to the original; 25 is far too slow for such a heavily traveled stretch of road.
Your suggested plan is not sound thinking. If you are truly concerned for the public safety you would cancel the scooter program and create sidewalks to public schools throughout the city.
The safety issue does not exist between Quaker and Howard St. the safety issues exist between the hospital and 395. Please don’t give into the demands of alexandria’s Affluent residents. They bought along Seminary Road. They should not be able to increase their home values by changing Seminary road from 4 lanes to 2 lanes.
I do not feel that major traffic routes should be used for bicycles. There are better alternatives.
As a resident on a high volume street (Braddock Road), I strongly urge opposition to pushing the car traffic onto the side streets. Keep cars on our main thoroughfares (we knew what we were getting into) and put the bike lanes on the side streets where they'd be safer for all involved. Keep our main arteries flowing safely!
The explosion of unneeded bike lanes in the City of Alexandria is a waste of taxpayer resources! Rarely do I EVER see bikers using the bike lanes that already exist!
Any reduction of lanes on Seminary Road will not only negatively impact traffic for those traveling on it by car, but also exacerbate the problem by clogging on and exit ramps for I-395 impacting drivers whose destination or departure does not include Seminary Road. Any potential benefit is out weighed by the additional congestion this will create and given the complexity of sections of Seminary Road will not encourage new cyclists.
Seminary road is a major traffic route and a decrease of auto lanes will clog our neighborhood. A similar thing was done on a section of Van Dorn and I have never seen a bicycle use the bike lane.