Public Comments for Improving King Street Metro

Tired of cramped and unsafe pedestrian areas at the King Street Metro? You now have a chance to let Alexandria planners of your daily struggle with confusing traffic patterns and insufficient bike facilities at the King Street Metro. City planners will consider public comments (via email: wanda.cudzilo-smith@alexandria.gov) until March 1^st before the City of Alexandria and WMATA can come up with a final design to upgrade accessibility for pedestrians and vehicles at the King Street Metro.

Preliminary to the final plan, talks have been made of how to use the $4.3 million in grant funding for the King Street Metro project. Planners are targeting to address the lack of recirculation for buses or autos. There were also suggestions of relocating the taxi stand farther from the Metro station and as well as moving the bike storage lockers to a more convenient location.

An overview of the design would show that planners are aiming at the expansion of the walkways to protect walkers from traffic. To this end, suggestions have been made of removing some of the surface parking to increase pedestrian access.

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