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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope I don't have to vote for either of them.  He has the vision of an ant in a tunnel, and she is completely daft and is entirely too dependent on that sycophant who hangs around her.

This city is definitely going in the wrong direction if these two are the best we can get to run.

Our family priorities are solutions to the horrible traffic problems.  I would like to be able to get from one side of the city to another in 20 minutes or less.  That is completely impossible these days.[/quote]

I think Justin definitely has a vision for the City.

I can get from NW Alexandria to Old Town in about 30 minutes on my bike. You are going in one of the most crowded corridors at peak?  Welcome to living in a city.  The solutions are going to be better transit - west Alex BRT on the way, for example - nothing will make driving easier.  [/quote]

You know, I would bet that I've been living in the City a heck of a lot longer than you AND that we have a lot more financially invested in it than you.  The traffic has only gotten really bad in the last 2 years.  There hasn't been some horrible thing that happened except purposeful incompetence in City Hall both on the part of our elected officials and paid staff.  Last night at 5 pm, as I was heading from West & Braddock to our home off of Russell, the line of cars heading east was backed up from West all the way to West Luray Street.  That is appalling.

I understand you want to ride your bike.  Good for you.  But it is not for everyone and isn't a good match for a lot of people who need to get back and forth easily and without looking like a doofus in the weird clothes.  So ,no, not everything can be solved with a bike.  It is hard to carpool 5-6 kids from the neighborhood on a bike.

And Wilson's vision doesn't exceed his foot size.  It is hard to respect him he is such a bumbling fool.  And I definitely don't want someone so incompetent to be in charge of things like public safety.  Sheesh. [/quote]

NP here, OMG I love you!

I have to use Waze often to get from Rosemont to OT to check how traffic is, it’s just ridiculous.  Forget me trying to go west of 395 for anything. The Bike lobby is strong in Alexandria, for some godforesaken reason, at the expense of pedestrians and cars.  The traffic has exploded in the change of administration and I also believe due to the popularity of using traffic apps like Waze, now commuters are zipping through Alexandria to avoid 395/495/295 etc.  Tons of Maryland drivers going up and down my street which used to be super quiet.  Police don’t enforce speed limits, the city won’t invest in more traffic calming (like speed bumps or stop signs or stop lights) except on Quaker or Seminary where the bike lobby got the speed limit change. Adults and children are constantly getting hit by cars, some fatally.  Does The city care?  Doesn’t seem like it.

[b][i]The school system is totally shameful for the taxes we pay.  Putting a home[]less shelter far away from mass transit is idiotic.  Now the city wants to scale back the Potomac Yard metro. [/i][/b] My head explodes with this place, even though I really like the people and location in which I’ve lived for the last 20 years. [/quote]

These and a handful of closely related decisions in this year's capital budget will haunt the City for the next 40 years.  And Wilson just plain [i][b]does[/b][/i] look [b][i]identical[/i][/b] to Silberberg right about now.

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