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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I believe the percentage I read on one of the articles was that at least 40% of traffic driving through Alexandria were people passing through, people who's trip neither commenced nor would end in Alexandria, point A and point B were both somewhere else.  Waze is kicking these drivers off 495/395/ GW Parkway/ Route 1 into the streets of Alexandria for their commutes or wherever it is they want to go.  You are not going to efficiently reduce a "driving majority" by adding bike lanes and bigger sidewalks in Alexandria when almost 1/2 of the drivers in Alexandria aren't leaving or going to Alexandria.  They are using the streets of Alexandria as a short cut.  Stop with the nonsense, it is what it is.

This is a heavily populated area with people dispersed in large geographic areas.  You cannot convert these people to bike the 15-20 miles in one direction. Enough already.

I live and work in Alexandria near one of the locations a road diet was used a few years ago. The traffic is obscene now.  I hate it.[/quote]

Why should the priority in Alexandria road design be the people who drive through Alexandria from somewhere else to somewhere else, over people who live in Alexandria? Drivers will use the streets of Alexandria as a short cut if that works for them. So Alexandria should stop making it work for them.[/quote]

Whatever, always missing the point. Move to Holland if the only answer is bikes everywhere.  [/quote]

Holland didn't used to have bikes everywhere. They used to have cars everywhere. Holland got to having bikes everywhere by adding bike infrastructure; then more people rode; then they added bike infrastructure; then more people rode...

Two more things that Holland has that we don't have:

1. a much lower rate of traffic deaths (Holland is 3.8 deaths per 100,000 people and 4.7 deaths per billion vehicle km traveled; US is 12.4 deaths per 100,000 people and 7.3 deaths per billion vehicle km traveled)
2. much lower CO2 emissions per capita (Holland is 9.9 metric tons of CO2 per capita, US is 16.5)[/quote]

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