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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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[/quote]

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.[/quote]

Nobody is going to force you to ride a bike. More's the pity.[/quote]

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. [/quote]

The road diet on Seminary was to improve safety for walkers, for drivers, and adding a long planned link to the bike network was only one aspect of it.

As for businesses, Amazon moved to NoVa spefically citing the transportation options, including transit, walking and biking.  VTech is moving in to Potomac Yard, and will likely be followed by businesses that want to be nearby.  There are employers moving into Potomac Yard now.

As a side note, property taxes are the same rate on condos and rental properties as on SFHs.  [/quote]

The city is invested in property taxes going up, as revenue from property taxes has been pledged to fund the subsidies for Amazon and VT to come (not unique to Alexandria, Arlington has done the same). Basically it’s a TIF.  I work in public finance and I read all those smooth PR phrased documents the city released on the topic.  When future increases in property taxes are pledged to pay for public projects, the incentive is to make sure that future revenue is received.  It’s different than a TIF based on increase in sales taxes.

Amazon and VT cited the very generous subsidies as an incentive (and was a huge reason New Yorkers objected to it coming there).  It didn’t have to do with bike lanes on 0.9 miles of Seminary.  Give it a rest.  [/quote]

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