Arlington Boulevard & Highland Median Closure Pilot
Level of Effort: 5 minutes, at home, in your PJs
Deadline: Fri 9/26 11:59pm

This year, Arlington implemented a cheap tactical safety intervention to prevent illegal left turns into and out of Highland Street to and from Arlington Boulevard. This cheap and easy intervention has improved safety for people driving as well as for people walking and biking.  Drivers no longer have to content with people making unsafe kamikaze turns across a major road, and people walking and biking no longer have to fear people making kamikaze left turns across their crosswalk when crossing Highland Street. Let Arlington (and VDOT!) know that we need more of this sort of cheap, commonsense safety improvement.

Suggested Feedback

4. After this pilot project was implemented, how safe do you feel while traveling along this corridor using the following modes?

Ideally, these answers should be at least one click safer than the answers you put in question #3 for the modes that you use in the corridor.

5. Describe your reasons for your answers to questions 3 & 4 above:

  • I feel safer driving on 50 knowing there won't be a sudden stoppage in front of me from someone making an illegal left onto Highland and knowing someone is much less likely to suddenly pull out from Highland into traffic on 50.
  • I feel safer walking and biking across Highland Street knowing drivers exiting Highland have one less direction to worry about looking so are that much more likely to see and not hit me.
  • I feel safer walking and biking across Highland Street knowing that it is much less likely that a driver will make a sudden and high-speed left turn from 50 onto Highland potentially not seeing that I am in the crosswalk.

6. Is there anything else you'd like to add about this project for staff to know?

This should have been done 5 years ago. And it should be done tomorrow for the rest of the unsiganlized intersections along Arlington Boulevard.

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