PLEASE, SLOW DOWN !!!
Speeding through our neighborhood continues to be a problem. Sadly, we can't look outside of our community for the culprits, they live here among us. Our neighborhood continues to add children to our population. For our sake, please, slow down.
This issue has two primary areas of
concern. First, through our own winding streets, and the
answer lies with us policing ourselves, and reminding our neighbors to
slow down as they drive by. Second, Military Road is becoming
a busy commuter artery in Northern Virginia. There are several
organizations looking at how to slow this traffic down.
Increased
radar stops have noticeably slowed traffic.
The police have increased their monitoring, and the Sheriff’s office,
which entered the area of radar monitoring several years ago, has “adopted”
our stretch on a more or less weekly basis.
Additionally,
the County now has a Task Force on arterial roads and traffic calming attendant
thereto. We are hoping that a
combination of better enforcement and signage, coupled with the possibility of a
stop light, will make it easier for us to exit and enter our neighborhood.
Since it appears that the process for NCAC is long, some of our neighbors are going to continue to press for redress in the coming weeks and months, pending a decision on our requests under Neighborhood Conservation.
Our neighboring Civic Association, Donaldson Run, has created a civilian volunteer radar patrol to assist the authorities with this problem. Click here to learn more about their efforts or volunteer to help them.
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