City Reacts to News of Bike Trail Improvements

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Bike trail improvements good! Increased enforcement actions against cyclists bad! Wait? No? WTF?

https://fcnp.com/2018/12/13/city-reacts-news-bike-trail-improvements/

PS. Jan rules.

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[lordofthemark]

@Judd 183952 wrote:

Robert Kennedy has got this covered. “Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.”

JFK (or more likely Ted Sorensen) said “Let us not negotiate out of fear, but let us not fear to negotiate” Barry Goldwater by contrast said “moderation in the protection of liberty is no virtue, extremism in the defense of freedom no vice!”

Ready for the President’s day ride, Cold War edition.

[bobco85]

Where’s the concern about the potential gridlock that this is going to cause to area trails? Widening the trail is only going to lead to induced demand. Before you know it, cyclists and pedestrians are going to spill out and start using the neighborhood streets as cut-throughs, terrorizing drivers who will be fearful of rolling out of their own driveways. They also need to perform studies on the amount of traffic delay this will put on trail-users coming to and from the Arlington Loop. Perhaps Falls Church should consider congestion pricing for trail-users? (/heaping dose of sarcasm )

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[chris_s]

@Tania 183940 wrote:

“As Feuchtner mentioned, however, he hopes that the success of the split lanes will cause the changes to spread east and west of the City, making the improvements uniform rather than unique.”

Emphasis mine.

It’s a well-supported hope. NOVAParks has a feasibility study in-hand that covers Broad Street to George Mason Drive.

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