Alexandria Citizens Petition

Absolutely opposed to reducing lanes on Seminary Road.

Please DO NOT narrow the lanes! The result will be complete gridlock! Listen to the majority of Alexandria citizens and DO NOT take away lanes on Seminary Road!

Common sense above progressive ideology

Leave Seminary Road alone!

Do NOT change Seminary Road. Leave it alone. We need a few roads where the traffic flows nicely too!

Please listen to the residents who live in the neighborhood and don’t reduce the lanes on Seminary. Plans and measurements look good on paper, but I highly encourage the city council members, traffic & parking board, and transportation & environmental services department members to hop on their bikes and ride on the current bike lanes to get a feel for how well traffic moves in rush hour especially on King & Janney’s where the road diet has been implemented. It’s not SAFE which is inconsistent with vision zero.

I am a senior who cannot sanction making major roads smaller. I have places to go in this city and the gridlock now is extremely frustrating. Children should not be on bikes next to cars!

Alexandria resident

I oppose changing Seminary Road to a 2 lane/bike land avenue. Both sides of Seminary should have adequate sidewalks. Bikers are already allowed to use those that are there but they should be complete. If it means a slight narrowing of Seminaries 4 lanes to add one foot to a sidewalk then so be it. People drive more carefully (usually on a narrower lane) but to take away the 4 lanes that lead to a major medical facility in our city and is a major artery between our east and west end where thousands travel, is ludicrous. I daily see cars that never before cut through my neighborhood on Park Road and since the bike lanes went into effect there ... and watch the cars build up for the light from Diagonal Road to Janneys in both directions each morning and evening. What in the world are you city officials thinking????

Anyone having to travel seminary road daily for work has already been impacted by the 25mph zone which is absurd in and of itself. Alexandria is not a town. Its a City and while bike paths should be created reducing lanes on roads does not make anyone safer.

Seminary Road approaching I395 is not the place to reduce vehicular traffic lanes. The statistics don’t support it and the most frequent users don’t support it.

Please leave Seminary Road a 4 lane road.

This vaguely utopian scheme to reduce lanes on a major city artery represents an apparent disregard for reality in favor of ideological predisposition. The plan deserves the fate it intends for car traffic - to be slowed down and stopped.

I am 69 years old and I don’t foresee me riding a bicycle anytime soon. Reducing Seminary Rd, a major thoroughfare for many Alexandria citizens to get to the hospital, is dangerous and thoughtless.

Fully supporting this. Time for a change

Keep Seminary four lanes!

Please do not take away any of the traffic lanes.

Please do not change the configuration of Seminary Road.

Fix the sidewalks on Seminary. Stop messing up the City with these “traffic diets” and stoopid bike lanes.

I strongly oppose a reduction of lanes on Seminary road. It is a misuse of taxpayer dollars when much greater road safety issues exist elsewhere in the city. Residents of the city need all four lanes to get from their homes to businesses, schools and recreation in the city and to access I-395. Reducing lanes on Seminary between Howard and Quaker will deter the flow of traffic through a wealthy neighborhood to the benefit of the few; that traffic will be diverted onto roads that are not designed to handle increased traffic to the detriment of the many. Seminary is not a ‘cut-through’; it is a much needed and necessary artery in the city that serves to facilitate moving people to businesses and recreation in the city.