Alexandria Mayor Race

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Anonymous wrote:The Potomac Yard metro station is going to have its southern bridge. Paid for by the Commonwealth, as part of the Amazon deal.

The folks who hounded CM Smedberg out of office should be ashamed of themselves.

Because they were unaware Amazon would pay for it?

Nah.

They WERE aware that postponing the bridge for now, because of real budget limits, did not mean it was excluded forever, which was pointed out repeatedly. And of course they hounded him when he was only doing (by withholding info) what he thought he was legally required to do. They assumed bad faith on his part, despite his years of honorable service.

And now City Council will have at least three bona fide clinical morons, and will be deprived of Smedberg. This is going to be an interesting three years.

The Hammond light issue shows the continued dysfunction of the Alexandria government.

The press reports show that was inconsistency in the plans for where the light posts would be installed. Even though it appears the final version of the packet before the city council showed that the light poles would be installed on lane one of the track, it appears that the inconsistencies in the planning documents did not allow for public input on the true trade offs on installing the lights at Hammond.

Rather than acknowledging flaws in the process, Mayor Wilson claims that the press reports on the planning documents are false. Wilson also claims that the installing the light posts on the track does not affect (even marginally) the usability of the track even though it causes lane one from being partially unusable (because of a fence) to be completely unusable.

In the end, the decision on the lights still may be the right one but it is unconscionable that Wilson won’t acknowledge the flaws in the process and that installing the lifts did involve a trade off.

Huh?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Potomac Yard metro station is going to have its southern bridge. Paid for by the Commonwealth, as part of the Amazon deal.

The folks who hounded CM Smedberg out of office should be ashamed of themselves.

Because they were unaware Amazon would pay for it?

Nah.

They WERE aware that postponing the bridge for now, because of real budget limits, did not mean it was excluded forever, which was pointed out repeatedly. And of course they hounded him when he was only doing (by withholding info) what he thought he was legally required to do. They assumed bad faith on his part, despite his years of honorable service.

And now City Council will have at least three bona fide clinical morons, and will be deprived of Smedberg. This is going to be an interesting three years.

The Hammond light issue shows the continued dysfunction of the Alexandria government.

The press reports show that was inconsistency in the plans for where the light posts would be installed. Even though it appears the final version of the packet before the city council showed that the light poles would be installed on lane one of the track, it appears that the inconsistencies in the planning documents did not allow for public input on the true trade offs on installing the lights at Hammond.

Rather than acknowledging flaws in the process, Mayor Wilson claims that the press reports on the planning documents are false. Wilson also claims that the installing the light posts on the track does not affect (even marginally) the usability of the track even though it causes lane one from being partially unusable (because of a fence) to be completely unusable.

In the end, the decision on the lights still may be the right one but it is unconscionable that Wilson won’t acknowledge the flaws in the process and that installing the lifts did involve a trade off.

Huh?

https://alexandrialivingmagazine.com/news/newly-installed-light-poles-at-hammond-affect-track-use/

https://alextimes.com/2023/08/not-on-track/

https://alextimes.com/2023/08/who-runs-the-city/

[Anonymous]

Surely Lightpostgate will be a winning issue for whoever the BIBA crowd puts forward next year to challenge Wilson

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Surely Lightpostgate will be a winning issue for whoever the BIBA crowd puts forward next year to challenge Wilson

I am sure it won’t. But to the extent the concern about Wilson is more about his integrity compared with positions on the issue, I do think “Lightpostgate” is telling.

Wilson, when legitimate concerns arise about an issue, regularly either claims he does not understand the concern or lies about the course of events. Wilson is doing both here. The problem is a credible candidate (if such a person exists) cannot run against him because it could lead to (an even worse) BIBA preferred candidate to win (ie the Euille, Donnelly, Silberberg primary a while back)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Potomac Yard metro station is going to have its southern bridge. Paid for by the Commonwealth, as part of the Amazon deal.

The folks who hounded CM Smedberg out of office should be ashamed of themselves.

Because they were unaware Amazon would pay for it?

Nah.

They WERE aware that postponing the bridge for now, because of real budget limits, did not mean it was excluded forever, which was pointed out repeatedly. And of course they hounded him when he was only doing (by withholding info) what he thought he was legally required to do. They assumed bad faith on his part, despite his years of honorable service.

And now City Council will have at least three bona fide clinical morons, and will be deprived of Smedberg. This is going to be an interesting three years.

The Hammond light issue shows the continued dysfunction of the Alexandria government.

The press reports show that was inconsistency in the plans for where the light posts would be installed. Even though it appears the final version of the packet before the city council showed that the light poles would be installed on lane one of the track, it appears that the inconsistencies in the planning documents did not allow for public input on the true trade offs on installing the lights at Hammond.

Rather than acknowledging flaws in the process, Mayor Wilson claims that the press reports on the planning documents are false. Wilson also claims that the installing the light posts on the track does not affect (even marginally) the usability of the track even though it causes lane one from being partially unusable (because of a fence) to be completely unusable.

In the end, the decision on the lights still may be the right one but it is unconscionable that Wilson won’t acknowledge the flaws in the process and that installing the lifts did involve a trade off.

Wilson lined parts of Seminary Road and King Street with unused bike lanes and claims they are an important reason people want to live in Alexandria. He will come up with some equally cockamamie
reason for the light post gate being beneificial to the diversity of the city. He can't even claw back on rabbit-gate at the Halal abattoir. Justin Thyme insisted only poultry would be killed there; now there are rabbits being killed and sheep will be next. Oh and let's not forget his cockup on Duke St. and re-zoning single family neighborhoods so that the bike lane losers can ride their twee bikes to their non profit jobs and get their wife to stop harping about their crappy kitchens in Parkfairfax. Justin Case will dump everything he can in the West End to make the DelRay crowd happy.