Clarendon Cycles
Roads in Arlington Should Be Paved With More Than Good Intentions
The Arlington transportation chief’s response to last week’s concerns over temporary paving highlights the challenges of keeping a growing community’s streets safe.
Last week this column illustrated the dangers of a poorly maintained street construction site. The accompanying video showed a cyclist taken down by a dangerous parallel ridge cut in the pavement that was left in place and unmarked for months. Arlington Patch followed up with an interview of Dennis Leach, the county's transportation director, about Arlington’s street construction policies and practices. It was useful to hear about the systems Arlington has in place to manage street construction. But they’re clearly not working well enough. To be clear up front — Mr. Leach is to be commended for his leadership of the transportation department. Having had many conversations with him about cycling and Arlington, I think that this county is …
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Mark Blacknell
12:48 pm on Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Response from Arlington DES: "Inspector asked contractor to recess plate, backfill/install asphalt until work complete b/c in bike lane." more ›