GMB Public Comments

Good evening, I am writing to enthusiastically support the adoption of consent agenda item #18 that will codify the 20mph school slow zones . The proposed change in the County Code will make our streets safer for our children and for everyone who travels to a school building and make the work of staff more efficient.  As you may be aware, the Virginia legislature is currently considering a bill to increase school crossing zones from 600 feet to 750 feet from school boundaries.  Going forward, Arlington should follow suit and increase the size of the school slow zones . See HB2104: https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB2104.   Arlington should also increase the time that the variable school crossing zone speed limits are in effect, consistent with Virginia Code §46.2-873, which allows such signs to be in effect " during such other times as the presence of children on such school property or going to and from school reasonably requires a special warning to motorists

Submit to: https://parkplanning.nps.gov/commentForm.cfm?documentID=124907&fbclid=IwAR19N-G9tEf9Q6trBX2I6A6Zhp4iQpwKeTRtUVkWBK1HoKMCAm-tvtiTdVs Fix the Memorial Bridge Choke Point Now The section of the Mount Vernon Trail under the Memorial Bridge is unacceptably narrow - it is not wide enough for people to pass each other going opposite directions, which should be seen as an embarrassment. NPS should install a temporary fix in the near term, by extending the one-lane section of the north-bound GW Parkway, which currently runs from just north of the exit for the Memorial Bridge to just after the crosswalk connecting the MVT to the Memorial Bridge. NPS could extend this one lane section for an additional 1/4 mile, to end just north of the Memorial Bridge. What is now the right lane could be separated from the remaining lane with jersey barriers and the trail could be routed to use that space. This could be a near term solution that would immediately improve safety on the MVT, while h