Update: So after a reprieve from this for several months, the situation is back and worse than ever. It is so bad I ended up taking a bus from less than one mile away. Fairfax County truly treats pedestrians like 2nd class citizens-no make that about 20th class citizens.
See the redish/brown line. That is the route pedestrians have been forced to take for nearly 2 months from the Dunn Lorring Metro to get two blocks away in the supposedly pedestrian friendly Avenir Place construction project near the Dunn Lorring Metro. Meanwhile the yellow line represents both the ideal route and the route that cars are allowed to take.
- Multiple Slow Crossings
- One Crossing where there currently is not a walk/don't walk sign
- While the police seem to sometimes hang around to enforce rules for pedestrians, vehicles are pretty much allowed to do whatever they want.
- I've rolled my ankle on one of their so called pedestrian friendly detours.
- Either nobody directing or employees who seem to be more interested in personal conversations and texting on their phones than directing.
- Confusing signs
Now I'd probably balk at this less if Avenir wasn't using the word "pedestrian-friendly" right on their web page to market the apartments.
According to Avenir's website "It's hard to imagine a better location, seriously". Seriously? At 1,700 for a one bedroom apartment how about Arlington or Washington DC which actually are pedestrian friendly.
An attempt to contact Avenir was made, but no response has been received.
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