View this email in your browser This week was a good reminder on why we need to fight climate change. Biking can help! Level of Effort: 3 minutes, at home in your PJs

Deadline: Friday July 19th



Just a few blocks south of Amazon's future HQ2 buildings, a major new residential development project has been proposed. This new development would stretch along Eads Street from 15th Street all the way down past the 22nd Street intersection. Unlike Amazon's initial development, this project is NOT currently slated to make ANY upgrades to the Protected Bike Lanes on Eads Street. We think this huge, financially lucrative development needs to do its part to upgrade Eads Street to support sustainable mobility.



E-mail the County's planning lead for this project and tell him it needs to upgrade the protected bike lane to include side boarding island bus stops to remove bus/bike conflicts and speed transit travel times as well as replace the ugly and maintenance-intensive plastic bollards with concrete curbs or planters.



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Project Details Level of Effort: 3 minutes, at home in your PJs

Deadline: Wednesday July 17th



This summer, Arlington’s transportation department is repaving half a mile of North Quincy Street which means an opportunity to finally link the Custis Trail to Ballston with continuous, low-stress, protected bike lanes! After an initial round of public feedback, the County has released its Preferred Alternative and it is great except for two important blocks. Between Washington Blvd and 14th Street, the County's proposal forgoes the safe, low-stress bike facilities that are possible there to instead preserve 12 parking spaces on the East side of Quincy which see fewer than 9 parked vehicles on a typical day.



This proposal is shocking. If those 9 cars are residents who qualify for Residential Permit Parking, the County's own parking occupancy data shows that there is space for those cars right around the corner on 13th Street and 14th Street at ALL times of day (at least 19 open spaces). If they are visitors to Washington-Liberty, the County's own parking occupancy data shows that there is plenty of room to accommodate those nine cars in the W-L garage.



If the County isn't going to follow its own newly-adopted bike plan here, on a project that connects the Custis Trail, a Metro Corridor, a Library, a major park, and a high school, on a street where every single family home has a driveway, with hard data that the parking can be re-purposed without creating any hardship, then what is the likelihood it will follow its new bike plan anywhere?



Take the survey and in the final text box, tell the County it needs to value safety over convenience and protect the Quincy Street bike lanes between Washington Blvd and 14th Street.



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Project Page Level of Effort: 10 minutes, at home in your PJs

Deadline: Friday July 12th



A project that has been almost a decade in the making, the Army Navy Drive Complete Streets project would remake a terrible traffic sewer into a Complete Street including dedicated bus lanes and a two-way, curb-protected bike lane with BUS ISLANDS all the way from Joyce Street to 12th St S. This fantastic low-stress facility would connect the Joyce Street Bike Lanes, the existing buffered bikes lanes on the rest of Army Navy Drive, the future extension of the Eads Street Protected Bike lanes, the Long Bridge drive bike lanes, a future trail on Clark/Bell Street and the Hayes Street Bike / bus idling / Uber drop off lanes.



The most important thing is to take the online survey and support this fantastic facility. At the end, after taking the main survey you will be given the opportunity to make comments directly on the plans. Here are some thoughts: JOYCE: West of Joyce, the east-bound existing Army Navy Drive bike lane should be extended to get to Joyce.

West of Joyce, the east-bound existing Army Navy Drive bike lane should be extended to get to Joyce. JOYCE: All four side of the Joyce intersection need 2-way bike crossing areas like the South side currently shows.

All four side of the Joyce intersection need 2-way bike crossing areas like the South side currently shows. ANY INTERSECTION: Concerned about left-turns and right-on-red across the 2-way cycletrack. Please protect with dedicated signal phases. PROJECT PAGE | TAKE THE SURVEY