Proposed Bike Path Through Falls Plaza
Editor,
After reading FC Independent article about the proposed bike path through Falls Plaza Condos, I am writing to express my opposition to this proposal.
While I very much support making biking safer and more accessible to FCC residents, I cannot in good conscience support a path in this location. I myself bike occasionally through the city.
As a resident for 10 years and an owner for 5 years, I am very familiar with Falls Plaza and our corner of the city. We already have issues with the public seeing Falls Plaza as a place to leave trash. This path would invite more of the public to traverse through Falls Plaza and would become an invasion of privacy and threat to safety in our homes.
Right now, it’s a few kids during the school year, but this plan would basically invite everyone who needs to get from Haycock to the east side of Falls Church to walk, bike, etc through FP 24/7.
I would much rather the city to choose another path such as through the shopping center with their acres of asphalt, then to to invade FP.
Additionally the article states a path is already funded and in design from the WO&D trail north on Shreve Road. It would be wiser for the city to promote a path that will soon be in existence than to push a bunch of people to our back yard, private property, and likely introduce construction that will force the cutting down of many trees on and adjacent the Falls Plaza property.
I urge the city to pursue other options to provide a continuous east-west path to the schools and west end of Falls Church.
-Katherine Williams
America Doesn’t Want to Learn
Editor,
Americans have become uneducable. We pay little attention in school, don’t want to go to college, and aren’t very ambitious at work. We are so opposed to instruction and counsel we no longer are even capable of learning. The fact that our news media has become a full-time entertainment industry doesn’t help.
We have come to believe that ethics, truth, and reality will destroy us.
Kimball Shinkoskey
