Alex Goyette: "The project is currently slated to be fully completed by winter 2026 — a full eight years after the initial flooding damage." That's not great. It's even worse that the city never bothered making the alternative route safe for people www.alxnow.com/2024/06/25/a...

"The project is currently slated to be fully completed by winter 2026 — a full eight years after the initial flooding damage." That's not great. It's even worse that the city never bothered making the alternative route safe for people www.alxnow.com/2024/06/25/a...

Alexandria hosting open house for long-awaited fix to damaged Holmes Run Trail | ALXnowwww.alxnow.com The City of Alexandria is hosting an open house tonight for a long-awaited trail repair project. A double whammy of historic floods in 2018 and 2019 wreaked havoc on the Holmes Run Trail -- a beautifu...

My neighbors and I would attend meetings and updates for the trail and alternates. No one ever seemed to listen. Perhaps we needed to be louder or more of us or richer. And the trail was closed for 2 years before the flood to install a new bridge. So it will be 10 years!!!!

Yeah, staff could pretty easily remove one of the street parking lanes for a interim cycletrack, would be about 50 spaces. A drop in the bucket though because the adjacent apartments have large parking lots

On Sanger Ave that is.

Even the sidewalks on sanger are a mess. Narrow, unbuffered from traffic, & often overgrown The people who live there deserve safe infrastructure period. The fact that they didn't get any improvement, even after HRT going out shouldve made that a area a priority, is pretty bad

Absolutely! In the past, I found staff extremely reluctant to remove parking for bike lanes. Met with former T&ES director on Commonwealth and he refused to remove half of the spaces despite a study and support from a church. A few years later, DASH removed a bunch of spaces for ADA compliance

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