Don't take away lanes from Norfolk's Hampton Blvd.

The traffic in the am is awful. People going to ODU and the base area a large majority of it. When they monitored the roads, were classes in session?

This would be a huge mistake! Much of the speeding problems and accidents are exacerbated by aggressive drivers. Reduction of traffic lanes and the acknowledged increase i congestion that it would cause would only increase the motivation for aggressive responses by drivers, and therefore actually decrease safety. In addition, before any one seriously considers additional bike lanes in Norfolk, traffic engineers should stop emotional discussions about advantages of bikes and use the same justifications and decision making process used when deciding about traffic lanes. In other words, show us the usage data for bikes in current bicycle paths, and then the cost of a). conversion to bike lanes and b). annual upkeep. Don't confuse the issue by talking about Federal vs City money either. Good stewardship of tax dollars is good stewardship! (and poor stewardship as well).

Your stupid if you think Hampton Blvd will function with 1 lane

It is so hard to navigate Hampton Blvd now. I can not imagine the gridlock with reduced lanes. Colley Ave is parallel and if the lanes were reduced Colley would also be gridlocked. Whenever there is an incident on Hampton traffic is diverted to Colley. It had taken me 30 minutes to go from 52nd St to 21 st during these times. I would not like this to be a daily occurrence.

Hampton Blvd needs all the lanes it can get, due to all the traffic.

The crowded traffic results from semis and hourly rise during work beginning and ending hours. College students fill the sidewalks of Hampton Blvd waiting to cross the streets. Fewer lanes for cars and trucks will worsen the situation.

I feel the proposed project will make a bad situation on Hampton Blvd. worse.

Today was very busy on Hampton Blvd. I tried to emagine the street with only two lanes. The only thing that came to mind was “nightmare”. Please reconsider this plan.

This is an extremely bad idea. Congestion. Cars and trucks will still speed. How about enforcing speeding laws instead of social engineering? And if you add bike lanes, you might as well prepare to write someone's obituary.

Save our lanes!!!

What a mess

Bad idea on Hampton. Last time I checked, riding a bike in the regular vehicle lane is permissible. I actually prefer it because Norfolk does not sweep/clean the current bike lanes enough in my opinion leading to flats.

Reducing lanes on Hampton and other streets to create bike lanes that are seldom used is bad city planning. The city needs all lanes currently on Hampton to help relieve the congestion caused by bike lanes on Colley. Also, making lanes unusable to auto traffic reduces flexibility if the area is in need of evacuation due to a hurricane. Do our city (and state) planners know that riding bicycles results in more head injuries than any other sport (not counting college and professional sports). We need helmet laws in place before considering further bike lanes.

I have never heard such a dumb idea. Hampton blvd is far too busy to have lanes taken away. Let alone the semi trucks that need to stay in the center lane so that they don’t kill anybody

Stupid idea

The City Council of Norfolk and the planned advisory committee that are considering taking away driving lanes and turning them into bike lanes on Hampton Blvd. obviously don’t have to travel in rush hour traffic. I dare say, no one has given any more thought to this “plan” than when they converted some of the driving lanes in the Ghent area of the city into bike lanes. I’d like to enlighten these people of the problems resulting from that decision. From what I see, there’s very little return on investment, as the bike lanes are extremely underutilized. I believe the bike lanes were considered progress, but the most damning thing was that almost immediately after being implemented traffic began clogging up to allow for the half dozen people who use these lanes on a regular basis. City planners should be ashamed of their actions. I have never seen more than three bikers at any one time using these lanes, but the traffic jams and travel times that have resulted from them have had huge impacts. Bear in mind, in the Norfolk area you are dealing with traffic headed toward the Naval Base (the largest in the world), US Fleet Forces Command, the International Terminal, Norfolk Naval Shipyard and JEB Little Creek. You have ODU, EVMS, Norfolk State University, the Scope, Chrysler Hall, the Harrison Opera House, Ted Constant Convention Center, the Norfolk courts and business traffic, all within a ten-mile radius. My commute to and from work is now 40/45 minutes as opposed to the 20 minute drive prior to the bike lanes. I only travel 4 miles. The traffic is only a part of the issue. What with these “toilet plunger” lane dividers, the plethora of directional metal “bike lane” signs on the sidewalks, the paintings on the streets in bright green and yellow and the bike icons painted in bright white, a charming little area has been ruined. I live here and I get confused about which lane I can or cannot use. Take a stroll down 35th street. These “plungers” are as far as

the reduction from 3 to 2 lains ,will cause traffic to bunch , rather than leave openings ,as ther is now, tus causing problrms ,accidents crossing when crossing hampton boulevard.

Bike lanes are the greatest misuse of steady over crowed streets I have seen. Streets are paid for by gasoline taxes and bicycles haven't contributed one cent for our roads. Stop spending money on bike lanes are fix out bad potholes and cracks.

This is a terrible idea and will make traffic move even slower, further congesting traffic during peak times. I do not support this even in the slightest.

Don’t close any lanes on Hampton Blvd.