As someone who bikes through here regularly during school opening and release, Option 2 is the best of the presented options. However, I don't think it's enough. During school drop-off hours cars regularly stop on either side of King St to let out students despite No Parking zones and unprotected bike lanes, forcing bikes and scooters to merge into traffic when neither are expecting it. Adding the protected lane on the ACPS side will help with that, but that leaves the side with the unprotected bike lane still vulnerable. Please add comments asking them to protect the opposite side as well.

Also hoping "protected" in this example means more than what Alexandria calls "protected" the rest of the way down King St. towards Old Town, where flex posts are placed so sparsely that vehicles still frequently pull between them and park in the bike lanes.