Alexandria City Election – Candidate responses on issues for people who walk and bike
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Alexandria’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee surveyed candidates for Alexandria Mayor and City Council to gain their perspectives on issues for people who walk and bike. Let’s take a look at how the candidates stack up. We received responses from one announced mayoral candidate William “Bill” Euille and five City Council candidates: John Taylor Chapman, Tim Lovain, Monique Miles, [URL=”http:///vanisyourman.com/”%5DTownsend “Van” Van Fleet[/URL] and Justin Wilson.
Their responses to the questions below are in subsequent posts
- There are parts of the city where walking is made extraordinarily difficult by things such as disconnected sidewalk segments, such as on Seminary and Duke, and streets completely devoid of sidewalks, such as part of Crestwood. How will you address these issues?
- If elected, what will you do to help people who walk, people who bike, and people who drive to share the road safely together in the King St/Union St neighborhood?
- In just about every neighborhood throughout the city, one of the top concerns is drivers driving too fast, aggressively, and not yielding to pedestrians. What is your plan to calm traffic and make our neighborhoods safer and more comfortable in which to walk and bike?
- Alexandria can combat traffic congestion, air pollution, and childhood obesity, and increase kids’ happiness and effectiveness at school by encouraging them to get more exercise by biking or walking to school. How will you increase the numbers who choose to walk or bike, and make sure they can do it safely?
- A few years ago, Alexandria joined communities such as Indianapolis, IN and Portland, ME to pass a complete streets policy, which is meant to ensure that all streets provide a comfortable experience for all users: people who walk, people who bike, people who drive, and people who use public transportation. But this policy needs continued council and staff support to achieve its purpose. If elected, how will you promote the implementation of Alexandria’s complete streets policy?
- A recent audit by the city of its own performance shows that the improvements called for in the 2008 bicycle and pedestrian chapters of the transportation master plan were only partially implemented. How will you ensure the city achieves community goals such as this one when they are articulated through plans?
- How will you improve access to the Metrorail stations for people who walk or bike?
- When you are in office, what will you do to support the continued expansion of Capital Bikeshare?
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@lordofthemark 126958 wrote:
Belle Haven, like a huge part of FFX county (even Kingstowne!) has an Alexandria address, because US Postal Service. The City limit is at Cameron Run though. You would be in the Mt Vernon District of FFX, which is having a contested election for the open supervisor seat. My wife knows Dan Storck from FC School Board politics – she approved of him on schools, IIRC, but I think some of the things he has said on transportation were not so good (see the FABB questionnaire) but he does look like Abe Lincoln, so there’s that.
ha, good to know
I looked it up, how totally confusing. I don’t hate fairfax though, so living there wouldn’t be the end of the world. Arlington is still my favorite since I loved living there, we just can’t afford living in the parts of Arlington we’d like to. Belle Haven is our current top contender because it’s on the MVT so I can live “outside the beltway” and pay outside the beltway prices for a house, while still being able to bike to work, and husband can easily drive to his work from there.We’ll see next year though. First gotta pay down the wedding bills…
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