speed bumps good Wrote:
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> Golly Duhs, Pedestrians are not supposed to walk
> on the road?
>
> So do you also think 2000 years ago Roman
> engineers developed their famous roads for their
> descendents' Alfa Romeos and Ferraris and Fiats
> and Lamborghinis; not for their soldiers to march
> on and for their merchants and carts to travel
> on?
>
> Once upon a time, in Rome, and even in the United
> States, it used to be that roads were for people
> and things to move on, not just automobile
> drivers. In fact, if you look at Virginia law,
> pedestrians have exactly the same right to the
> road as you do, since for the bulk of Old Columbia
> there is no sidewalk or sidepath. Yes, indeed,
> pedestrians must walk on the side of the road
> facing traffic, but they have just as much right
> to use the road as any automobile driver.
>
>
href="http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?
> 000+cod+46.2-928">Virginia Code § 46.2-928:
> "Pedestrians not to use roadway except when
> necessary; keeping to left.
>
> Pedestrians shall not use the roadways for travel,
> except when necessary to do so because of the
> absence of sidewalks which are reasonably suitable
> and passable for their use. If they walk on the
> hard surface, or the main travelled portion of the
> roadway, they shall keep to the extreme left side
> or edge thereof, or where the shoulders of the
> highway are of sufficient width to permit, they
> may walk on either shoulder thereof."
>
Beyond your own long and winding road to say nothing (The Romans? Really? lol), the point was the pedestrian excuse is bs. Nobody is out walking down Old Columbia Pike. In the 20+ years I've lived in the neighborhood I could count on both hands (maybe one) how many people I've seen walking down that road. There's no reason to. For one, because there's a steady stream of cars (duh) and it's a relatively narrow road and not the most safe to walk to begin with even off of the road and there are plenty of other streets and paths to walk otherwise if you're out just walking around for exercise or pleasure.
> I've lived on a road with speedbumps in Annandale
> and seen plenty of pedestrians walking dogs along
> my road. Maybe if you slowed down the cars enough
> on Old Columbia Pike, you would see more people
> out walking their dogs there too. So heck yeah,
> I’d be in favor of speedbumps to slow traffic
> and make streets in Annandale safer for kids,
> pedestrians, dogs, bicycle riders, and other
> drivers.
That may work where you lived but, sorry, you're not going to turn Old Columbia Pike into some walking path. lol There are plenty of people out walking, they just have enough sense not to do it on a main busy road. Which btw was there before the neighborhood was. It's about like suggesting putting speed bumps on Ravensworth.
There are a few who want to try to limit traffic through the area thinking that they'll make it something that it isn't especially now that you have some McMansions going up along it. That's what it's all about.