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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The schools have been overcapacity for years [b]the roads are impossible to travel on now in the city[/b]. City officials have seriously lost their minds. When city council was asked about class sizes and overcapacity issues years ago and asked what their plans are with all the 10 newish affordable housing buildings the literally sat there and blinked. You can't make this incompetence up.[/quote]

[i]Impossible[/i], you say? So everyone is just sitting at home? Or, if you mean impossible to travel on by car, how come there are so many cars on the roads?[/quote]

Hey go back to posting hour bike lobby crap on AlxNow.     You know the roads are crowded.[/quote]
My daughter ended up with a daily drop off occupational therapy appointment every day Mon-Fri this summer at a location where I needed to go up duke st, then over and up seminary road. I did the round trip drive twice daily all summer and not once did I see a single bike in the bike lanes. Honest to god, not a single bike even though the times I was driving varied and often included am or pm rush hour. What an absolute waste and cause of more vehicle congestion.  [/quote]

I bike on Seminary all the time. I fly right past the cars sitting in traffic. Probably why you didn't see me is because you weren't paying attention, which drivers never do.[/quote]

I call BS on this one. I live off Seminary, there are rarely cars sitting in traffic and if they are, they're trying to turn left on to St. Stephen's. There are also small backups going north/west on Seminary right before the Howard intersection. [/quote]

Double BS.  Sounds like  the geezer who got the bike lanes built on Seminary Rd. because he worried about his grandkids riding their bikes  a few blocks to his house.  The kids moved so he is looking for reasons to keep the bike lanes.   His original argument was based on blind people not being able to safely cross Seminary Rd. in the "heavy traffic."    [/quote]

Durham's daughter and grandkids moved closer to him. They are no further away from Seminary than they used to be. [/quote]

NP here. They live closer, and are still off of Seminary. Durham is the ultimate mansplainer who thinks his legacy and his calling from God are to get bike lanes everywhere possible. He’s here to save us. He cannot understand how his visions or options are not the best choice, ever. He had his blind friends from the charity he works with (biking with the blind) call and write in support of that seminary bike lane and to get the crosswalk in front of his house claiming they’re too scared and it’s too dangerous for them to cross the street there; despite the fact they’re never crossing the street there because they don’t live at the seminary or EHS or even in Alexandria. It’s special interest to the core. It’s such BS. His daughters told me he had them do that.  They can’t keep their mouths shut. [/quote]

More than two years later, city officials say they made the right decision. A report shows that:

Speeds decreased slightly but did not display a noticeable difference.  
    Traffic did not appear to divert to neighborhood streets, with one exception: Vehicle volumes on Ft. Williams Parkway saw an increase in both directions of 12 to 33 percent. 
    Peak period travel times on Seminary Road decreased by 35 to 60 seconds. Reductions eastbound were marginally greater than trips traveling west. 
    Bicycle ridership on the road increased. Pedestrian usage decreased.
    The percentage of drivers traveling more than 35 mph on the roadway has decreased significantly.

A few high-profile, high-speed crashes on the roadway have damaged pedestrian infrastructure, and the city is working to get new equipment, again, to replace that damaged by cars.

The one thing the city wanted — a sidewalk on the north side of the road outside the Virginia Theological Seminary — has proved cost-prohibitive. The Virginia Dept. of Transportation denied funding for the sidewalk, and the city has not come up with the $1 million it would cost to install it.[/quote]

They were fixing those little curbs on the edge of the bike lanes this morning.   Dave at the Exxon Station on Duke St. said that people routinely come to him because they have hit one of those bumpers and damaged a tire.    The white pylons are frequently hit.  I saw a runner trip on one about a week ago and he stopped himself before falling into the car lane.   of course the speed limit has been reduced.  You have to maneuver around all the bike infrastructure not to damage your car.  [/quote]

Sounds like it was effective, then. That's good.[/quote]

Sounds like it was effective at costing money that could have been used for needed high school programs [/quote]

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