As a daily driver on King Street, I am concerned about the safety of bicyclists on an already congested road.
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Cathleen Phelps
12 years ago
No way would I allow my kids to ride their bikes up King St. with or without these bike lanes. There's too much traffic and not enough space. Much safer through the neighborhood.
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Mollie Hemingway
12 years ago
I advocate transportation systems that work for drivers, bicyclists and pedestrians. We could dramatically improve bike routes in the area. But it's a disaster waiting to happen to put bike lanes on the narrow and congested King Street. In fact, the idea makes so little sense that I keep wondering if there's some Chris Christie-type scandal that explains how it's made it this far.
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LaMora Pogue
12 years ago
I travel that road daily because of my job and I know from personal experience that this would put everyone at risk. With such narrow pathways, if a bike for whatever reason picks up a nail or blows a tire and begins to wobble, especially heading down King Street, the biker would have NO other place to fall oter than into traffic or direct route of on on coming car. It happened to me in richmond Va and it seems too great of a risk to ask both motorists and bikers to take. That hill is not meant for the average biker. If some one is hurt or killed on stretch, the City would be completely and soley responsible, and I don't want to help foot the bill.
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Brian Barker
12 years ago
It is unfair to residents who bought their house with the King Street parking to remove the spaces.
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Ellen Epstein
12 years ago
This is way too dangerous. I drive this road daily and I can't imagine how turning off and onto King St. through bike lanes could be anything but trouble.
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Anonymous
12 years ago
Our home backs up to King Street. We do not support the bike lanes and loss of parking.
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Jennifer Dougherty
12 years ago
Road too narrow for cars and bikes!
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s. gallagher
12 years ago
Mixing bicycle traffic with automobile traffic in many of the narrow streets of Alexandria is not a smart idea and will potentially cause riders severe injury or death. Rework the plan. Much of the bicycle traffic in other areas of NOVA is handled on separated trails, suggest Alexandria do the same before we have a tragedy.
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Christine Traettino
12 years ago
We live at the corner of Gibbon and Union Street. It's a mess! Bike lanes are not the answer. Bike trails need to be established to link the north and south ends of Old Town. Waterfront plan has not adequately addressed this issue either.
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marine niewald
12 years ago
no no the street is too narrow as is residents pay high taxes and should have the right to their parking space
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Siddartha Beth Pierce
12 years ago
No to bike lanes.
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Harlene Clayton
12 years ago
That portion of King Street is way too narrow to add bike lanes.
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Chartley Ward
12 years ago
Ridiculous waste of money and dangerous.
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Anonymous
12 years ago
For exercise, I walk each day in the neighborhood. I already have to doge bicyclists who run stope signs, even when there's a pedestrian in the crosswalk, and red lights nd who go the wrong way on one-way streets. I also drive King Street on that stretch and dread what it would be like if the bad ones were encouraged to use it.
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Jeff Warner
12 years ago
Bicyclists already do not have to adhere to the same laws that pertain to motor vehicles...this alone will create more of a safety hazard on King Street.
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Gary Stradiotto
12 years ago
I travel [frequently] to the area and think the city’s plan is flawed
This is a bad idea
this is misguided; and a future hazard
Kin St is too narrow for bike lanes
As a daily driver on King Street, I am concerned about the safety of bicyclists on an already congested road.
No way would I allow my kids to ride their bikes up King St. with or without these bike lanes. There's too much traffic and not enough space. Much safer through the neighborhood.
I advocate transportation systems that work for drivers, bicyclists and pedestrians. We could dramatically improve bike routes in the area. But it's a disaster waiting to happen to put bike lanes on the narrow and congested King Street. In fact, the idea makes so little sense that I keep wondering if there's some Chris Christie-type scandal that explains how it's made it this far.
I travel that road daily because of my job and I know from personal experience that this would put everyone at risk. With such narrow pathways, if a bike for whatever reason picks up a nail or blows a tire and begins to wobble, especially heading down King Street, the biker would have NO other place to fall oter than into traffic or direct route of on on coming car. It happened to me in richmond Va and it seems too great of a risk to ask both motorists and bikers to take. That hill is not meant for the average biker. If some one is hurt or killed on stretch, the City would be completely and soley responsible, and I don't want to help foot the bill.
It is unfair to residents who bought their house with the King Street parking to remove the spaces.
This is way too dangerous. I drive this road daily and I can't imagine how turning off and onto King St. through bike lanes could be anything but trouble.
Our home backs up to King Street. We do not support the bike lanes and loss of parking.
Road too narrow for cars and bikes!
Mixing bicycle traffic with automobile traffic in many of the narrow streets of Alexandria is not a smart idea and will potentially cause riders severe injury or death. Rework the plan. Much of the bicycle traffic in other areas of NOVA is handled on separated trails, suggest Alexandria do the same before we have a tragedy.
We live at the corner of Gibbon and Union Street. It's a mess! Bike lanes are not the answer. Bike trails need to be established to link the north and south ends of Old Town. Waterfront plan has not adequately addressed this issue either.
no no the street is too narrow as is residents pay high taxes and should have the right to their parking space
No to bike lanes.
That portion of King Street is way too narrow to add bike lanes.
Ridiculous waste of money and dangerous.
For exercise, I walk each day in the neighborhood. I already have to doge bicyclists who run stope signs, even when there's a pedestrian in the crosswalk, and red lights nd who go the wrong way on one-way streets. I also drive King Street on that stretch and dread what it would be like if the bad ones were encouraged to use it.
Bicyclists already do not have to adhere to the same laws that pertain to motor vehicles...this alone will create more of a safety hazard on King Street.
I travel [frequently] to the area and think the city’s plan is flawed