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@americancyclo 69682 wrote:

Has anyone linked to this map/survey yet?

The proposals being discussed were formed partly off of the results of that survey.

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Thanks to dasgeh and Kolohe for the detail on the Meade St / Iwo Jima issues! The current proposal calls for bike lanes the entire length of Meade (and I know the existing plans for the Meade Street bridge replacement include bike lanes) but dealing with the merges from 50 is going to take some care in the final design. I’ll include all of your excellent points on the difficulty of actually getting between Meade and the trails/roads around Iwo Jima effectively in either direction. I think that intersection where they often put up the temporary traffic light could be a great spot for a HAWK signal once the connection on the east side of Meade has been improved.

I worry about how much of this is going to require the cooperation of NPS. *sigh* Baby steps.

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@GregBain 69677 wrote:

Are there, or are there plans for, a requirement that buildings with X parking spaces also provide Y shower/locker room facilities? (For me locker rooms are more important than bike lanes in getting me to bike to work).

Arlington’s standard site plan conditions have required this for years, so it has applied to almost all new office buildings in Arlington.

D. Requirements for showers and lockers:
1) For Office Uses:
a. For every 50,000 square feet or fraction thereof of office Gross Floor Area
(GFA), one (1) shower per gender, up to a maximum of three (3) showers
per gender, shall be installed for buildings 300,000 square feet of GFA and
below, and one (1) shower per gender for each additional 100,000 square
feet of GFA or portion thereof.

b. The showers shall be located in a safe and secured area.

c. Approval of Location, Layout and Security (Footing to Grade Permit)
A minimum of one (1) clothes storage locker per gender shall be installed
for every required employee bicycle parking space. The lockers shall be
installed adjacent to the showers in a safe and secured area. Before
issuance of the Footing to Grade Permit, the Developer agrees to obtain
the review and approval of the Arlington County Police Department for
the location, layout and security of the showers and locker room. The
Arlington County Police Department will approve the location, layout and
security of the showers and locker room if it finds them to be reasonably
safe and secure.

d. The lockers shall be a minimum size of 12 inches in width, 18 inches in
depth and 36 inches in height, and shall be available to bicycle commuters
during normal building operating hours; provided, however, that bicycle
commuters shall be permitted to use the lockers for storage 24 hours per
day, 7 days per week.

e. Both the showers and lockers shall be available to all tenants of the
building.
(Source with more detail)

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@GregBain 69628 wrote:

Me too.

Me three.

@GregBain 69628 wrote:

Any chance that the sidewalk on the TR bridge is in the scope of the Rosslyn improvement project? It really should be wider and or separated from traffic with a higher fence.

Definitely not anything Arlington has much say in. Probably DDOT, NPS or FHWA.

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@dasgeh 69615 wrote:

So it sounds like you only need a short cycletrack — basically recognize that the road around Macy’s is great for bikes, and think about how they continue to 15th. On street doesn’t seem like the best option with all of those bus stops…

Don’t get me started on the missed opportunities on Hayes St with the current multimodal project. *sigh*

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@PotomacCyclist 69620 wrote:

The planned cycletrack would extend from 12th St. (near Rte. 1) to Joyce St. (at the 395 underpass). I don’t know which side of the road they would add the cycletrack, but the south side would make more sense to me. (Better connections to Pentagon City retail, residences and offices than with a north-side cycletrack.)

It is planned for the south side.

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@dasgeh 69612 wrote:

2) Separate bikes from others along the Custis sidewalk

How do other folks feel about this? I know there are other cities that have tried this. Anybody have successful models they can point to? PReferably with links and photos and data and whatnot?

@dasgeh 69612 wrote:

3) Rosslyn – GWMP – Spout Run connection

I believe I know the kind of connection/route you’re suggesting here and that it has been deemed infeasible in the past (when they were looking at continuing the MVT all the way through Arlington) as too expensive / too environmentally destructive / too historical viewshed-destroying. Would love to hear more detail though. Perhaps it’s different or perhaps things have changed.

@dasgeh 69612 wrote:

4) Improve the connection from the Iwo Jima to N. Meade Street

This would seem to fit in perfectly with many of those goals of the sector plan. Can you/others outline the problems with this connection as you see them now?

@dasgeh 69612 wrote:

5) Improve Key Blvd — Key Blvd/Scott St (or 18th St, if that becomes a bike/ped street through Rosslyn) connection

By “improve” are we talking like bike lanes all along? Or some sort of Bicycle Boulevard treatment? Or are you kinda open to whatever staff thinks might be best in that regard? My biggest issue with that connection is the crazy steepness of the trail section that connects the two pieces of Key Blvd and I’m ‘not sure what a good alternative is there. I don’t really have a big issue with Key east of there.

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@PotomacCyclist 69609 wrote:

What about the proposed leasing of the air space above I-66 in Rosslyn? The VA state gov’t. has proposed making that available for development, in order to raise revenue for transportation improvements. While it seems that money could go toward funding a new Rosslyn-DC Metro tunnel (to Georgetown?), part of any funds could go to an improved MVT-Custis Trail-Lynn St. crossing.

I’m going to put in a question about this. I know the study is aware of the air-rights RFP, but I’m not sure to what extent they are accounting for it. I agree that it may be our best shot at a real solution for Lee & Lynn.

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@DismalScientist 69596 wrote:

I don’t like counterflow or two way cycletracks. The right side of northbound Lynn is busy enough.

Because of the two-waying of Lynn and Ft Myer, I don’t believe any of the cycletracks proposed could be described as counterflow or contra-flow. Are you completely against two-way cycle tracks, or only against them when they are on a one-way street? Or only against them when both directions are on the same side of the street? Or some combination? In general, just give me some more detail Dismal!

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@Kolohe 69591 wrote:

Is there a concrete plan to improve the ‘intersection of death’ (Lynn & Lee Highway)? It’s not entirely clear from the supporting docs you link (and that intersection is either right at the edge or outside some of the drawn boundaries on the various slides)

Or is the vision to just obviate the need for improvements by creating a new connection to the MVT (and TR Bridge) via the 19th/Ridge Road master project?

To the best of my knowledge the plan currently doesn’t address much in regard to the Lee & Lynn intersection, though additional trail connections could certainly help reduce the # of people who need to use it. This is definitely already on the list of issues to push on.

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Getting my threads mixed up methinks.

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I think we’re saying the same thing Dismal. No more service road for the short section between the Macy’s and the Hayes St entrance.

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This expansion will CLOSE the service road between Hayes and Macy’s. Nice wide sidewalk there, but there will be no road connection.

Biggest improvement in my mind is how much it narrows that intersection. It goes from what was wide enough to be about six lanes down to three.

BEFORE

AFTER

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Seriously, he was awesome. Praying for justice.

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If somehow we were able to harness all the hot air in this thread we could melt all the snow that falls on the Custis this year.

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