Imagining a Safer, more Sustainable Shirlington Road
Level of Effort: 10 minutes, at home in your PJs
Deadline: Sun 11/12 11:59pm

Shirlington Road, an important connection leading to and from Green Valley (and popular alternative trying to ascend Superman Hill) is up for repaving between the W&OD Trail and Kenmore Street.  Arlington is exploring potential tactical improvements as part of the repaving process.  Now is the time to let Arlington know how Shirlington Road works, or doesn't work, for you!  Potential improvements that can come with repaving could include: buffered or protected bike lanes, shortened crossing distances for people walking, providing better sight lines and more controlled vehicle movements through curb bump-outs & pedestrian islands, and right-sizing motor vehicle lanes.

Suggested Feedback

Consider the following, either as a long-form response in the provided textbox at the end of the first section of the feedback form or as individual pins on the map in the following portion of the form.

  1. No safe places to cross Shirlington Road between Kenmore St and Four Mile Run Drive.
  2. People biking in the bike lane are uncomfortably close to fast-moving cars and cement trucks with poor visibility. It is not currently a bike facility that is safe enough for kids to use to get to Drew School, the Sprayground, or the W&OD Trail. This "road" is an important North-South bike connection, something we have too few of in Arlington.
  3. Sight lines for the southbound bike lane are poor coming around the curve.
  4. Speeding cars are a problem, especially going downhill.

Feel free to vote up our map pins, or add your own - we'll swing through every few days and boost other pins with good ideas!

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