Reply to APS - questions about Key / ASFS building swap

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "APS - questions about Key / ASFS building swap"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As far as walking to asfs, there are a lot of concerns with crossing kirkwood to widen its walk zone.  Currently only a handful of kids walk to school, mostly from the Clarendon area. Those parents who walk regularly have expressed deep concerns about people regularly crossing kirkwood— it’s objectuvely not a safe road to cross and little can be done short of adding a traffic light.  The county has to do a traffic study before doing something like that, so any traffic mitigation’s would be a few years off.  There’s a bunch of extra concerns like the back stairs would need to be widened and a handicap ramp added, which is difficult since the county does not own the land directly next to the stairs (it’s someone’s house on either side).  They likely will expand the walk zone to include part of Lyon village, but I really hope it doesn’t result in someone being hit by a car.
[/quote]
I agree Kirkwood is a tough street to cross.  However, a crossing guard at the crosswalk at the bottom of the stairs would adequately deal with this problem.  I don't see any reason why the stairs would have to be widened.  I can't see any practical way to add a handicap ramp to get up that hill.  Even if you did, it would be so steep as to be essentially unusable.   If that is a requirement, then the project wouldn't work.  I don't think that the ADA or common decency would require a ramp there.  In any event, there is already a sidewalk which runs up 14th St. which could be used if necessary.[/quote]
The side walk on 14th street doesn’t go all the way to kirkwood.  It ends about half a block before.  There isn’t a crosswalk at 13th, which has a contiguous sidewalk.  So unless you widen the stairs and add a ramp, no way you can force people to cross kirkwood to widen the walk zone.[/quote]

One side of that block on 14th doesn’t have a sidewalk but the other side does and I cross Kirkwood twice a day at that location no problem. Why does a ramp need to be added to the back entrance of ASFS as long as the front entrance is accessible? Does the law require it? I also don’t understand why you think the stairs need to be widened. I’ve walked up and down them more times than I can count and see no reason why they can’t handle an increase is use.  In fact, when my kids were at ASFS those stairs were used by the 4th and fifth graders as a way to exit the property for fire drills.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics