Comments for “Little River Turnpike Bicycle Corridor Study”
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A big change would be much better. You should install sidewalks AND bike lanes that are buffered from the car lanes by tree-lined medians. Slowing traffic down will make it a place people want to be. Read the book Happy City for more.
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How about business re-development in run-down annandale? Mostly nothing but old sad buildings, some vacant. We go to other states to shop, really. No modern stores or eateries worth biking (or driving) to. No pretty trails. Just shabby ugliness everywhere.
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My small children love to bike but there isn't anywhere to go from here (no close playgrounds or other places except the beautiful green springs. And, we don't have anyway to get there. Where sidewalks exist, they aren't suitable or safe for bikes, not even those with training wheels. Why is one of the oldest major roads in the county so obsolete and bike/ped unfriendly?
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Why is the bus stop here on the traffic lane? It is a major disruption. Why is there no 3rd lane?
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Why are there only 2 west bound lanes with the third lane being right turn only? Incredibly dangerous for cars exiting the shopping center. Why is 3rd lane right turn only?
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The minor sidewalk improvements helped but the ped crossing over 395 is still dangerous for walkers and impossible for cyclists.
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Why is this bus stop in the traffic lane? It is a MAJOR disruption for traffic bound for 395. Why are there only 2 lanes with no dedicated 395 only lane?
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This intersection is ridiculous.why no right turn only lane on southbound braddock? Why not 2 straight lanes on north bound braddock?
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The two mile stretch from 395 to John Marr is a confusing mix of 2 lanes then 3 then 2 with a left turn lane the 3 then 2 with a right turn only lane, with and without sidewalks with only 2 crosswalks, few sidewalks and no bike lanes.
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The is no shoulder, no bike lane, and no sidewalk on a steep hill
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The trail here is newly paved all the way to Braddock, making connections to this corridor even more important.
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King Arthur should be a designated bike route, and there's plenty of room for a striped bike lane. Saxony to Camelot is calmer, and provides a shorter connection to the CCT via the Camelot community club's road to the parking area, but a local landowner who bought the property immediately West of the road (decades after the prior owner granted the community an easement) has bullied the county into fencing off a perfectly safe and reasonable connection. The county should revisit acquiring this important connection.
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There is a trail from here up to Pine Ridge park, pavement is in decent, but not great condition. It is often quite occluded by tree branches, leaves, etc. Despite this, It affords a much safer connection than any other route, especially woodburn road, which will get you killed. It is not signed on either end, and is little known. It should be signed, and perhaps improved. The access to chivalry road is a bit of a choke, as it is a reduced-width sidewalk.
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This is by far the safest route between Dunn Loring metro and 236, but it's not marked as a cycling route. It should be. contining down along wellness BLVD then the outlet to Pine Ridge Park. Pine ridge needs only a little paving through its parking area to connect to a surface trail that runs directly onto the calm streets of the Camelot neighborhood, which makes for direct, safe access to the accotink trail that connects to 236 at Americana park.
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Connection down to 236 study corridor currently is safest at this point -- but it's still not safe. It requires navigating some frontage road / parking lot and a signaled pedestrian crossing for rte 50 that only has a button on the West side of Williams Drive.
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Merrillee and Eskridge are currently decent options for cycling between the new Metro Hub and Little River TPKE, with access through Camelot Neighborhood. On-street route from here south could be achieved with lane markings. The traffic isn't terrible so far, and squeezing it in with lane striping should calm it. Another option is widening a lane on one side of the streets.
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The railroad right of way makes the best sense as a direct route into Alexandria from this location. Some sort of fenced-off, separated multiuse corridor would be IDEAL, if the RR could be incented to work with it.
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The corridor cannot just end here. The 395 crossing is the most dangerous one along the entire route into Alexandria. The ramps here and at Van Dorn are deaths waiting to happen.
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Consider using this network of frontage roads as a good cycling lane alternative. They need repaving, however, as they're horrible, and they would need copious signage and markings. Cars in this corridor believe they're in a car-free zone, because it's strip-mall hell. They do not expect, look for, or respect cyclists.
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This crossing NEEDS a flashing yield sign for traffic merging onto the beltway. Cars have just navigated a merge, and they are looking forward to putting on the gas, and they DO NOT look for pedestrians or cyclists.
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Illicit parking and connection. During construction of hot lanes, an unofficial parking area and an access path were created for heavy equipment. Afterward, nothing was done, and now there is an illicit parking area and a gravel path which is badly eroding, and with every rainfall, deposits loose sand, mud and gravel onto the paved trail. This needs to be addressed immediately, as it is a trail hazard on a blind corner, downhill to a bridge where pedestrians congregate to sightsee and fish. It is doubtful that you can stop the flow of bikes and pedestrians from this access point, and it makes a good one for the mill creek neighborhood. However, the erosion must be addressed immediately.
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A grant from transurban could easily fund a bike path that circles the 495 beltway and connects several of the longer paths into DC and burbs. This would create a spoke and hub that opens up bike access to thousands and could be the organizing feature bike facility development for the next 60 years.
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intersection of annandale road, Hummer, and Gallows Road is very dangerous for pedestrians. Bike path disappears into a narrow roadway, turning vehicles with no line of sight to cyclists, no sidewalk or shoulder, terrible pavement condition. Worst of all this is where a very good, long bike lane ends. Not practical to put these lanes on busy roads and dead-end (literally) into busy, high-volume intersections.
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Old Columbia Pike is too narrow even for cars much less bicycles and pedestrians. There is no sidewalk. In many places, there is a ditch immediately on both sides of the road. This road needs to be widened with dedicated bicycle lanes from Lincolnia through LRT and to Braddock Road. Let's do it!
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And again, WB path suddenly just disappears and you have no good way of getting to the traffic lanes without jumping into a busy right turn lane.