The City Council has officially rejected the proposed bike lane plan for King Street. This outcome represents a significant victory for our neighborhood and affirms the importance of the initial board decision. We will continue to monitor future infrastructure planning to ensure that safety remains the primary focus.
May 21, 2014
Final supporters
By signing this petition, I ask the Alexandria City Council to uphold the February 24th decision of the Alexandria Transportation and Parking Board which rejected for safety reasons the City of Alexandria's plan (http://alexandriava.gov/localmotion/info/default.aspx?id=74320) to install dedicated bike lanes and remove parking on King Street between Cedar and Highland Place.
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
March 11, 2014
March 11, 2014
The feedback from neighborhood residents continues to highlight significant safety concerns regarding the proposed bike lane configuration. These accounts are currently being compiled to ensure that the City Council fully understands the potential impact on our local infrastructure.
Reached 100 supporters
March 10, 2014
March 9, 2014
Our petition is approaching two hundred and fifty signatures as residents continue to voice their legitimate concerns regarding the safety of the proposed King Street plan. Please circulate this appeal among your neighbors to ensure the City Council understands the scale of public opposition to this project.
March 8, 2014
The number of signatures is nearing one hundred. Please circulate this petition among your neighbors to ensure the City Council understands the urgency of our safety concerns.
182 Comments
This area of King Street is awfully narrow and already hard to drive on. Adding bike lanes would, in my opinion, make it more dangerous both for bikers and drivers. Since the Masonic Temple has offered to place a bike path on their property I do not see a need for bike lanes on King Street.
Whatever benefits there are from bike lanes are offset by the reality that our roads were not designed to safely accommodate them. I saw a school bus have to swerve onto oncoming traffic on Janneys just this morning because of inadequate width.
I regularly park on King Street and walk through the neighborhood with my dogs. Not only is parking actually used on King Street, but I rarely see bicyclists. The hill is too steep.taking it away is nonsense.
Subjecting an average of 13,000 rush hour motorists to the safety risks, congestion, delays, and overall deterioration of our quality of life to accomodate the 7 bikers who use King Street during rush hour makes absolutely NO sense. Please reconsider this ill-conceived idea.
The people who live there do not want this. I am a bicycle commuter and think bike paths should be placed where useful, functional (as bike paths) and not dangerous. Narrowing the lanes of King Street just does not make sense at all. This is "wrong in so many ways."
If it isn't too late I would like to add my name. To make that section of King St even narrower and suggest that it would increase the safety of the bicyclists is absurd.
The lanes are hazardous. Also, it's uphill or downhill, and that is dangerous; in fact, I usually dismount and walk the bike up the sidewalk anyways.
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The City Council has officially rejected the proposed bike lane plan for King Street. This outcome represents a significant victory for our neighborhood and affirms the importance of the initial board decision. We will continue to monitor future infrastructure planning to ensure that safety remains the primary focus.
May 21, 2014
Final supporters
By signing this petition, I ask the Alexandria City Council to uphold the February 24th decision of the Alexandria Transportation and Parking Board which rejected for safety reasons the City of Alexandria's plan (http://alexandriava.gov/localmotion/info/default.aspx?id=74320) to install dedicated bike lanes and remove parking on King Street between Cedar and Highland Place.
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
March 11, 2014
March 11, 2014
The feedback from neighborhood residents continues to highlight significant safety concerns regarding the proposed bike lane configuration. These accounts are currently being compiled to ensure that the City Council fully understands the potential impact on our local infrastructure.
Reached 100 supporters
March 10, 2014
March 9, 2014
Our petition is approaching two hundred and fifty signatures as residents continue to voice their legitimate concerns regarding the safety of the proposed King Street plan. Please circulate this appeal among your neighbors to ensure the City Council understands the scale of public opposition to this project.
March 8, 2014
The number of signatures is nearing one hundred. Please circulate this petition among your neighbors to ensure the City Council understands the urgency of our safety concerns.
182 Comments
Our vehicular egress is onto King Street. Option 2 would be hazardous to our safety as well as to cyclists. Please note that my wife and I support bike lanes when properly planned; this plan is a bad one.
This area of King Street is awfully narrow and already hard to drive on. Adding bike lanes would, in my opinion, make it more dangerous both for bikers and drivers. Since the Masonic Temple has offered to place a bike path on their property I do not see a need for bike lanes on King Street.
Whatever benefits there are from bike lanes are offset by the reality that our roads were not designed to safely accommodate them. I saw a school bus have to swerve onto oncoming traffic on Janneys just this morning because of inadequate width.
I regularly park on King Street and walk through the neighborhood with my dogs. Not only is parking actually used on King Street, but I rarely see bicyclists. The hill is too steep.taking it away is nonsense.
Subjecting an average of 13,000 rush hour motorists to the safety risks, congestion, delays, and overall deterioration of our quality of life to accomodate the 7 bikers who use King Street during rush hour makes absolutely NO sense. Please reconsider this ill-conceived idea.
The people who live there do not want this. I am a bicycle commuter and think bike paths should be placed where useful, functional (as bike paths) and not dangerous. Narrowing the lanes of King Street just does not make sense at all. This is "wrong in so many ways."
If it isn't too late I would like to add my name. To make that section of King St even narrower and suggest that it would increase the safety of the bicyclists is absurd.
The lanes are hazardous. Also, it's uphill or downhill, and that is dangerous; in fact, I usually dismount and walk the bike up the sidewalk anyways.
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Our vehicular egress is onto King Street. Option 2 would be hazardous to our safety as well as to cyclists. Please note that my wife and I support bike lanes when properly planned; this plan is a bad one.