Successful Pedestrian Connection

[Bruce&Linda Dwyer]

Here is a story of a successful pedestrian connection in Alexandria. This connection is one we had identified for the Open Space Plan. Thanks for the story Larry. Do you or does anybody else know how this came about and how it was funded? 

>From In My Opinion, Alexandrians with Two Cents (Sense), January 30, 2004
"One Small Step for Warwick Village
By Larry Grossman
While President Bush may be dreaming of future moonwalks for mankind, Warwick Village residents are taking their small steps for mankind here on earth along the new Landover Pathway. What was once a bumpy, rutted and narrow asphalt walkway slapped down between the end of Landover Street and West Glebe Road is now a six-foot wide concrete walkway that glides its way down between the Chirilagua Market and the Foodway Store and connects to West Glebe Road. Black bollards stand like sentinels protecting the walkway for pedestrians and cutting off vehicular and truck access between the two parking lots. This area was dangerous for pedestrians as vehicles sped over the old pathway and through the parking lots to avoid the traffic light at West Glebe and Mt. Vernon Avenue. The pathway also has pedestrian scaled lights and will have extensive landscaping planted this spring, which will make this project look less than a moonwalk and more like an earthwalk."
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