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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lurking here but , practically, the bike lanes are not for bikes but to appease 16 wealthy homeowners on Seminary Road, the Episcopalian Diocese, the Jewish synagogue, and Inova Alexandria hospital.    The road is now narrowed so that traffic backs up rather than flows on the road.  [/quote]

So, they're for the people who live there, vs. the people who want to drive through there fast on the way to somewhere else?[/quote]

Incorrect.  A large number who lived on the connecting roads were against the road diet.  Most (not all) homeowners on Seminary, who predominately live in mansions set back from Seminary, were in favor of it. [/quote]

And many who lived on connecting roads were in favor.

Its also interesting that people on Seminary are seen as less important because they live in "mansions" while others in the City  are less important because they live in condos or apts.   We are all your neighbors, people. Please try to treat us all and all our lives with respect.  [/quote]

No one thinks those who live in condos are less important. Most of those againt the road diet told the city to spend the funds on the west end of Seminary where people have died. That’s where the apartments are. The SHA did not have apartment dwellers on the board because the apartment HOAs refused to allow them to join. You do know that rumor was started by a former SHA board member on BPAC who (1) had no problem with that until Seminary Road arose and (2) started the rumor even though he knew the board was working to fix the problem. The mansion owners have huge plots of land with driveways that turnaround and appeasing them gives the perception, once again, that those father west in Alexandria do not matter.

VHS voted for Alternative 4, developed by the SHA board.  It had 4 lanes. They did an about face before the city council hearing. Also their residents are mostly temporary students - they predominantly reside on campus.  The impact of Seminary on those residents is not long term. [/quote]

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