Please sign our petition to request a sidewalk for Rosemary Lane. A recent traffic study conducted by Fairfax County showed that roughly 1200 cars per day travel on Rosemary Lane and speeds were recorded higher than 43mph 15% of the time. A sidewalk would increase safety for kids and pedestrians and increase the neighborhood walkability.
Updates
December 2, 2019
I have submitted a formal request for a meeting with the Department of Transportation to review the traffic data we cited. They have acknowledged receipt of the petition and I am waiting for them to provide an available time on their calendar.
December 2, 2019
The volume of support for the Rosemary Lane sidewalk project has now reached a level that warrants a formal request for a meeting with the Department of Transportation. I am currently finalizing the presentation that utilizes the traffic study data to advocate for our objective.
29 Comments
People think Rosemary Lane is Graham Rd and speed up and down. It is very dangerous at times as they do not slow down when they see you walking a dog or just walking. I have to jump our in front of them to make them slow down and sometimes that doesn't work as they just go around me.
I regularly walk on Rosemary Lane. As there is no sidewalk and no traffic calming, I often see drivers not paying attention and driving above the speed limit. I fully support Traffic Calming and sidewalks on Rosemary Lane to improve the walkability of children and residents to walk from Jefferson Village and Greenway Downs to get to Graham Road School, the shopping center and safely to transit points.
I live on Rosemary Lane and have two small children. We often walk on the road and have come close to being hit on numerous occasions.
My children live on the same block as Graham Road Elementary School and we have to make 7 crossings over 6 streets to stay on the sidewalk if we walk them to school. (Terry LN, Graham RD, Tyler AVE, Rice ST, Quincy AVE, Oakland AVE, & Graham RD again) It's ridiculous. With a sidewalk on Rosemary LN, we could walk them to school with 0 road crossings. Rosemary Lane needs a sidewalk.
Almost all of this street has infrequent lighting and no marking for the swales on both sides. This is dangerous to both vehicles and pedestrians, and also makes it hellish for the snowplows. A sidewalk on at least one side of the street is imperative.
This has always been a nice street to walk down, but it has become dangerous as traffic has increased. A sidewalk would be a welcome addition.
There should be sidewalks installed, but not speed humps. Slowing down certain roads with speed humps will continue to cause drivers to speed on other roads (Marshall St is next), or simply speed between humps and stop signs (as on Summerfield Rd) - putting the true speed for a law abiding driver at 15-18mph vs 35mph for anyone in a hurry (a lot of people). The 85th percentile speed appears to be 40mph on Rosemary, so in accordance with the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, the speed limit shouldn’t be less than 35mph. It could be fine to justify slowing these residential streets lined with houses down to 25mph (such as this one) - if they hadn’t already slowed the parallel, adjacent, *non-residential* Graham Rd down to that speed! Other solutions are preferable to the perennial, fruitless effort of “traffic calming” every street in the area with speed humps - as if drivers didn’t just displace where they could speed (or just sped in between the humps and obvious points of measurement / VADOT / police). Example solutions are sidewalks protected with bollards and fencing, elevated skywalks, and the like for pedestrians (and school zones) as permanent solutions. You don’t give a classroom of rowdy children (the cars) opiates to calm them (speed humps) so they don’t run into the toddlers (pedestrians) - you naturally separate them at their points of potential friction. Speeding up Graham Rd to its proper 85th (or 80th!) percentile limit (by using bollards / fences / skywalks for the school zone), and installing sidewalks on residential streets, will permanently mitigate these issues instead of temporarily displacing them.
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Please sign our petition to request a sidewalk for Rosemary Lane. A recent traffic study conducted by Fairfax County showed that roughly 1200 cars per day travel on Rosemary Lane and speeds were recorded higher than 43mph 15% of the time. A sidewalk would increase safety for kids and pedestrians and increase the neighborhood walkability.
Updates
December 2, 2019
I have submitted a formal request for a meeting with the Department of Transportation to review the traffic data we cited. They have acknowledged receipt of the petition and I am waiting for them to provide an available time on their calendar.
December 2, 2019
The volume of support for the Rosemary Lane sidewalk project has now reached a level that warrants a formal request for a meeting with the Department of Transportation. I am currently finalizing the presentation that utilizes the traffic study data to advocate for our objective.
29 Comments
I've been a Rosemary Lane resident for more than 20 years. Since the popularity of GPS, it has become a frequent pass-through for traffic traveling well above the speed limit and creating a danger for children and those walking. With no sidewalks and decaying edges of the street, some type of protection is imperative.
People think Rosemary Lane is Graham Rd and speed up and down. It is very dangerous at times as they do not slow down when they see you walking a dog or just walking. I have to jump our in front of them to make them slow down and sometimes that doesn't work as they just go around me.
I regularly walk on Rosemary Lane. As there is no sidewalk and no traffic calming, I often see drivers not paying attention and driving above the speed limit. I fully support Traffic Calming and sidewalks on Rosemary Lane to improve the walkability of children and residents to walk from Jefferson Village and Greenway Downs to get to Graham Road School, the shopping center and safely to transit points.
I live on Rosemary Lane and have two small children. We often walk on the road and have come close to being hit on numerous occasions.
My children live on the same block as Graham Road Elementary School and we have to make 7 crossings over 6 streets to stay on the sidewalk if we walk them to school. (Terry LN, Graham RD, Tyler AVE, Rice ST, Quincy AVE, Oakland AVE, & Graham RD again) It's ridiculous. With a sidewalk on Rosemary LN, we could walk them to school with 0 road crossings. Rosemary Lane needs a sidewalk.
Almost all of this street has infrequent lighting and no marking for the swales on both sides. This is dangerous to both vehicles and pedestrians, and also makes it hellish for the snowplows. A sidewalk on at least one side of the street is imperative.
This has always been a nice street to walk down, but it has become dangerous as traffic has increased. A sidewalk would be a welcome addition.
There should be sidewalks installed, but not speed humps. Slowing down certain roads with speed humps will continue to cause drivers to speed on other roads (Marshall St is next), or simply speed between humps and stop signs (as on Summerfield Rd) - putting the true speed for a law abiding driver at 15-18mph vs 35mph for anyone in a hurry (a lot of people). The 85th percentile speed appears to be 40mph on Rosemary, so in accordance with the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, the speed limit shouldn’t be less than 35mph. It could be fine to justify slowing these residential streets lined with houses down to 25mph (such as this one) - if they hadn’t already slowed the parallel, adjacent, *non-residential* Graham Rd down to that speed! Other solutions are preferable to the perennial, fruitless effort of “traffic calming” every street in the area with speed humps - as if drivers didn’t just displace where they could speed (or just sped in between the humps and obvious points of measurement / VADOT / police). Example solutions are sidewalks protected with bollards and fencing, elevated skywalks, and the like for pedestrians (and school zones) as permanent solutions. You don’t give a classroom of rowdy children (the cars) opiates to calm them (speed humps) so they don’t run into the toddlers (pedestrians) - you naturally separate them at their points of potential friction. Speeding up Graham Rd to its proper 85th (or 80th!) percentile limit (by using bollards / fences / skywalks for the school zone), and installing sidewalks on residential streets, will permanently mitigate these issues instead of temporarily displacing them.
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I've been a Rosemary Lane resident for more than 20 years. Since the popularity of GPS, it has become a frequent pass-through for traffic traveling well above the speed limit and creating a danger for children and those walking. With no sidewalks and decaying edges of the street, some type of protection is imperative.