#JustinsTrafficJam

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This wasn't about Jim Durham's grand-daughter folks! It was about reducing four active lanes on Seminary Road which had minimal traffic history of incidences and instead adding in bike lines. Get a life!

It was about the same thing done on a portion of King St. Taking out two lanes of traffic and causing delays from traffic back ups.
The grandkid became the anecdotal evidence that the bike lanes on Seminary Rd meant that his daughter no longer had to pick up his grandchild from school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This wasn't about Jim Durham's grand-daughter folks! It was about reducing four active lanes on Seminary Road which had minimal traffic history of incidences and instead adding in bike lines. Get a life!

No, it was about what Durham personally wanted. Get a clue.

You're lying! It was about Alexandria Traffic staff wanted!

Then it wasn’t about what people in the affected areas wanted. It was what some bureaucrats wanted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of comments on “Justin’s” traffic jam. And the road diet plainly is not working, and the bike lanes were nothing but another Justin present to 3% of the City’s people, and it all belongs to him. But you could still debate some of the specifics. What you can’t debate is that I’m almost every issue, he has become a dictator, and he has not had the consistent support of his council members and he is aiding battles and not productivity.

You know what will really reduce traffic? When we break out the motorist death squads.

[Anonymous]

Bike lanes are a total waste of money in a City where the use is almost non existent and there are so many other serious infrastructure improvements and poor schools.

Another mayor and council will not fix the poor decision making because they too will be of the same ilk as the current mayor and council

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bike lanes are a total waste of money in a City where the use is almost non existent and there are so many other serious infrastructure improvements and poor schools.

Another mayor and council will not fix the poor decision making because they too will be of the same ilk as the current mayor and council

Next comes legislation on cars, forcing people into having to use the bike lanes. Whenever government makes bad decisions, they use more regulation to cover their mistakes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bike lanes are a total waste of money in a City where the use is almost non existent and there are so many other serious infrastructure improvements and poor schools.

Another mayor and council will not fix the poor decision making because they too will be of the same ilk as the current mayor and council

Next comes legislation on cars, forcing people into having to use the bike lanes. Whenever government makes bad decisions, they use more regulation to cover their mistakes.

Nobody is going to force you to ride a bike. More's the pity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bike lanes are a total waste of money in a City where the use is almost non existent and there are so many other serious infrastructure improvements and poor schools.

Another mayor and council will not fix the poor decision making because they too will be of the same ilk as the current mayor and council

It's odd how few people ride bikes in an environment built to make bicycle travel dangerous and inconvenient. I wonder what the explanation could be for that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Justin won bc people treated the race like a popularity contest. As such, he will now do what a popular kid would do and reward his friends and follow his whims.

Because popular kids ride bikes...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bike lanes are a total waste of money in a City where the use is almost non existent and there are so many other serious infrastructure improvements and poor schools.

Another mayor and council will not fix the poor decision making because they too will be of the same ilk as the current mayor and council

Heads in the sand over schools. I am an Arlington real estate agent and at least half the buyers I work with move from Alexandria to Arlington to escape the poor schools. Fix schools first

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bike lanes are a total waste of money in a City where the use is almost non existent and there are so many other serious infrastructure improvements and poor schools.

Another mayor and council will not fix the poor decision making because they too will be of the same ilk as the current mayor and council

1. The road was being repaved anyway, the added costs for the bikes lanes was small

2. Most of the cost of the reconfiguration was for the pedestrian refuge islands. Which are for pedestrians.

3. I am not convinced that the main issue with Alexandria schools is money. Anyway, the Council under the Mayor's leadership (and against opposition from some of the same people who opposed the road reconfiguration, I believe) has increased funding for the schools

4. The Council under the Mayors leadership is addressing a wide range of infra issues. Finally dealing with the combined sewer outflows. Tripling the repaving budget. Finally addressing our aging City Hall.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bike lanes are a total waste of money in a City where the use is almost non existent and there are so many other serious infrastructure improvements and poor schools.

Another mayor and council will not fix the poor decision making because they too will be of the same ilk as the current mayor and council

Next comes legislation on cars, forcing people into having to use the bike lanes. Whenever government makes bad decisions, they use more regulation to cover their mistakes.

Nobody is going to force you to ride a bike. More's the pity.

You are pushing your personal wish for bike lanes on hundreds of others who ride bikes but also need their cars. If you continue to discourage motor traffic in Alexandria, you will fly in the face of past administrations who tried their best to get businesses to Alexandria to improve the tax base. If you get rid of tax paying businesses, you will pay even higher property taxes for a growing high need population. But then you probably pay little on taxes either for your condo or in your rent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bike lanes are a total waste of money in a City where the use is almost non existent and there are so many other serious infrastructure improvements and poor schools.

Another mayor and council will not fix the poor decision making because they too will be of the same ilk as the current mayor and council

Next comes legislation on cars, forcing people into having to use the bike lanes. Whenever government makes bad decisions, they use more regulation to cover their mistakes.

Nobody is going to force you to ride a bike. More's the pity.

You are pushing your personal wish for bike lanes on hundreds of others who ride bikes but also need their cars. If you continue to discourage motor traffic in Alexandria, you will fly in the face of past administrations who tried their best to get businesses to Alexandria to improve the tax base. If you get rid of tax paying businesses, you will pay even higher property taxes for a growing high need population. But then you probably pay little on taxes either for your condo or in your rent.

I'm pushing my personal wish for people to have non-driving options for transportation that are as safe and convenient as the driving options.

If you are a driver who dislikes sharing the road with lots of other drivers, that is something you should support.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bike lanes are a total waste of money in a City where the use is almost non existent and there are so many other serious infrastructure improvements and poor schools.

Another mayor and council will not fix the poor decision making because they too will be of the same ilk as the current mayor and council

1. The road was being repaved anyway, the added costs for the bikes lanes was small

2. Most of the cost of the reconfiguration was for the pedestrian refuge islands. Which are for pedestrians.

3. I am not convinced that the main issue with Alexandria schools is money. Anyway, the Council under the Mayor's leadership (and against opposition from some of the same people who opposed the road reconfiguration, I believe) has increased funding for the schools

4. The Council under the Mayors leadership is addressing a wide range of infra issues. Finally dealing with the combined sewer outflows. Tripling the repaving budget. Finally addressing our aging City Hall.

Of course the problem with the schools is not money. Alexandria has a high per pupil cost as it is. The problem is leadership. Alexandria has not been able to hire a decent superintendent in 20 years because the city leaders do not have the integrity to hire someone who can get children educated rather than pander to those whose agenda is to keep a part of the population in ignorance and poverty. Many if the teachers are also abysmal and have little interest in the children. I have been a tutor at 5 schools, and it is sad that these bright children are ignored. And SN children are even worse off. Their IEPs are on paper only.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bike lanes are a total waste of money in a City where the use is almost non existent and there are so many other serious infrastructure improvements and poor schools.

Another mayor and council will not fix the poor decision making because they too will be of the same ilk as the current mayor and council

Next comes legislation on cars, forcing people into having to use the bike lanes. Whenever government makes bad decisions, they use more regulation to cover their mistakes.

Nobody is going to force you to ride a bike. More's the pity.

You are pushing your personal wish for bike lanes on hundreds of others who ride bikes but also need their cars. If you continue to discourage motor traffic in Alexandria, you will fly in the face of past administrations who tried their best to get businesses to Alexandria to improve the tax base. If you get rid of tax paying businesses, you will pay even higher property taxes for a growing high need population. But then you probably pay little on taxes either for your condo or in your rent.

I'm pushing my personal wish for people to have non-driving options for transportation that are as safe and convenient as the driving options.

If you are a driver who dislikes sharing the road with lots of other drivers, that is something you should support.

I am a driver and a biker and I am happy to share the road with other drivers. I am also rational and know that commuters from Manassas, Burke, Centreville, and Woodbridge cannot bike to their jobs at the Army Headquarters if Seminary Road. Nor can residents from Kenwood Nursing Home, Goodwin House, Washington House, and Claridge House ride bikes to INOVA Alexandria Hospital.

If hundreds of bikers were waiting for these bike lanes, why are they so heavily unused. Or did you use the tired meme “if you build it, they will come” on the reliably gullible Del and Justin?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This wasn't about Jim Durham's grand-daughter folks! It was about reducing four active lanes on Seminary Road which had minimal traffic history of incidences and instead adding in bike lines. Get a life!

It was about the same thing done on a portion of King St. Taking out two lanes of traffic and causing delays from traffic back ups.
The grandkid became the anecdotal evidence that the bike lanes on Seminary Rd meant that his daughter no longer had to pick up his grandchild from school.

Who do you think was behind the King Street changes....it was Durham.