Comments for “WINCHESTER-FREDERICK COUNTY MPO BIKE-PED PLAN”
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I find it difficult crossing the street even with the new traffic signals.
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I don't live in this area but agree that this area could use some better pedestrian accomodations.
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I am semi-retired and live at 106 Clevenger Ct just over the city/county line, so I am very interested in being able to bike or walk along the proposed Fox Drive trail. We see schoolchildren walking on this road with no shoulders in some places after school - a very dangerous condition with the middle school and high school at each end. Please get the bike/walk trail going.
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This trail needs to be connected with the other side of Rt. 37.
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A park on the western side of the County is needed and a trail connecting it to the City area would be fabulous.
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Fairfax Pike between Main Street and the Sherando Park area (or beyond) desperately need sidewalks and/or bike paths. This area is heavily commuted by pedestrians and cyclists going to and from work, often crimping traffic, which is already vulnerable at peak vehicle commuting times. With appropriate sidewalks and crosswalks, more accidents like the June 7, 2012 pedestrian fatality could be avoided. Many of the people using this path are also just trying to get to work and a suitable route should be provided that won't jeopardize their safety.
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Kids should be able to ride their bikes to the pool,but cork street and valley avenue are not bike friendly.
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Complete the sidewalk on Linden drive, to Amherst and Fox Drive, Sidewalk the entire Fox drive - Whittier area. This whole area (Winc-Fred) is about 30 years+ behind on accommodating ped-cycle traffic and public transportation. But I'm glad someone is finally noticing. Even along Valley Ave south, New places (20 years ago) were required to put in sidewalks, But it's disjointed and not complete. A person should be able to leave their house - ANY HOUSE - in the city limits and bike or walk to ANY OTHER building in the city without walking in the road or a drainage ditch to avoid traffic. The county is even more of a mess, Sidewalks in Kernstown are about 10% complete along Valley Ave, and non existent from there, Yet the Volvo dealer had to put in a sidewalk to nowhere. There should be at least a bike path - sidewalk from Kernstown over Tasker way to connect the new developments there with Winchester also. You can't even walk from Greenwood Grocery to the park without being in the road. Yet developments out that way were started 25 years ago. It's a pretty simple solution, If you cant get from House "A" to House "B" or any business within the entire city limits without walking in a ditch or in the road, then the system is broken. A person should be able to leave their house and walk in a loop as small (one block) or large (the whole city) as they desire and end up back at their house with only having to cross streets, not compete with traffic. I also agree with the comment regarding the Rt 37 East Extension, That needs a parallel bike path incorporated into that project during construction.
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There's no safe way to walk/bike down fox drive to downtown or across winchester, and it's in desperate need of a sidewalk/bike path. And then again from 522 north/west of the city into downtown, which is two lanes at points and dangerous for pedestrian traffic.
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I am very pleased with what has been done in the Stephens City area neighborhoods to connect them to the park, the schools, and shopping centers. The biking path in Sherando Park is wonderful. Would be nice to see paths continue to the Bowman Library on Tasker, but traffic there is dangerous and the road is very narrow.
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Make sure every piece of the Route 37 bypass to the east of Winchester has parallel bike and walking paths, connected to all nearby neighborhoods.
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Why were all these housing developments approved with NO safe biking or walking connections to nearby schools, especially Millbrook High School and Redbud Run Elementary. And we worry about traffic on Berryville Pike and Senseny Road. Fix this mess by connecting housing developments with schools, parks and shopping areas wherever we can. Frederick County may need to build a pedestrian-biking overpass over Route 7 to Millbrook and Redbud to connect with developments to the south. (Too expensive? We built the roads, didn't we?)
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Why do so few people walk or bike? Why does Winchester have so much traffic? Those questions are related. How many parents drive their children to school, and how many high schoolers drive themselves? Better walk/bike routes to Handley HS and Daniel Morgan MS are essential, along with cooperation from safety-conscious parents (perhaps too safety conscious) who won't let their children walk, bike or ride a bus. We are raising a generation of non-walkers and non-bikers. Winchester needs safe walking and biking routes, educational programs to encourage walking and cycling, and maybe parent volunteer monitors on buses so all will feel safe riding them.
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The link from the Green Circle at the Abrams Creek Wetlands to Amherst St. across from Valley Health needs to be completed, but NOT pushed through sensitive wetlands habitat (by Pennypacker/Merrimans Spring) or along dangerous Merrimans Lane. Instead, use the "elbow" of the Green Circle that already connects the wetlands to Stone House Court, then use existing roads that run east to Meadow Branch Ave. Run the bike route along the projected alignment of the Meadow Branch connector to Amherst St.
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Part of Frederick County was annexed by the City of Winchester in 1972(?). This area in the southern part of Winchester has no sidewalks in the older (annexed) portion, where no new construction has taken place. This is prohibitive to travel by foot. I do it anyway, walking on Middle Road, but it's dangerous. Speed limit is posted at 35; traffic sometimes up to 55mph in close proximity. Ped. facilities really need to be upgraded (or even installed for the first time) in the annexed zone, esp. in the main corridors, e.g. - Middle Road (SR 628), Vallye Ave (US 11), Papermill Road, and Shawneed Dr (SR 652).
The non-maintained shoulder on Valley Ave (US 11) is a marginal start for bicycling accommodation. Among more casual bike users, there is a significant lack of understanding/misuse of the lanes. (Wrong direction travel, in particular.) Better marking and new devoted lanes elsewhere would help. Education is necessary. The Valley Ave. lanes are always filled with debris and in the southern part of town, the lane comes and goes due to overall road width concerns. This is confusing for everyone, motorists and bicyclists. In general, merely the addition of currently nonexistent shoulders to roads in the study area would be beneficial.
I personally dislike the conversion of previous one way streets to two way traffic in Winchester. These streets are Braddock and Cameron. When they were two lanes, traffic flowed freely and there was plenty of space to pass a bicyclist. Now there is pressure on the bicyclist by close proximity traffic (motorists wanting to pass, regardless of conditions). Also, some stop signs have seem to have been installed as traffic calming tools, but they greatly prohibit smooth flow of a cyclist, e.g. - Braddock and North Ave. & Braddock and Fairfax Lane.
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I live off Jones Road. Frederick County has some of the most beautiful scenery and most dangerous roads anywhere. There are no shoulders, road edges are crumbling, and traffic speeds by without consideration. Middle Road is quite possibly the worst for trying to run a cyclist off the road. I would ride to work if there were designated lanes and/or paths. The county also needs to enforce pet ordinances to reduce the number of dog attacks.
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I live off of Apple Pie Ridge Road. I've always thought it's some of the most pretty scenery in the County. Even though I love to bike, I've never done it on that road because of a lack of shoulders/paths. Cars travel too fast on the road to be able to bicylce safely. Thank you for your efforts. I am very supportive.