FY2024-25 Two-Year Transportation Plan
UPDATE: City Council adopted the FY2024-25 Two-Year Transportation Plan on June 13, 2023. Watch the discussion(External link).
Transportation projects take a long time to implement. Construction activity visible today is the result of years of planning. That means projects being discussed today will be built six to eight years from now. The city has developed a list of specific projects the city wishes to submit for regional, state, and federal funding over the next two years. These projects include bicycle, pedestrian, trail, transit, intersection, and roadway improvements.
Recommended projects balance local and regional transportation needs, improve connectivity, and facilitate livability.
Please review the projects (External link)and use the tools below to post comments, ask questions, and share ideas. (Click on markers on the map below to view a summary of each project.)
Proposed Projects
- Vision Zero/Safety Action Plan
- Northfax East-West road extension between Chain Bridge Road and University Drive Extension
- Shared use path on Chain Bridge Road between Assembly Drive and Northfax Road
- Judicial Drive bike lanes (Chain Bridge Road to Jones; Jones to Main Street)
- Dwight Avenue sidewalk and Dwight/Roberts Road intersection improvements
- First and/or Second Street sidewalks
- Pickett Road Bridge rehabilitation
- High visibility back plates for traffic signals
- Norman Avenue sidewalk feasibility study
- Burke Station Road Phase II sidewalk feasibility study
- Fern Street pedestrian connection
Note: The Two-Year Transportation Plan does not include locally funded projects, such as residential sidewalk improvements, which are programmed annually using local funding.
These are not projects that would be built over the next two years. If adopted by City Council, the listed projects would have conceptual plans developed and potentially pursued for outside funding within the next two years.
Comments
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The city has identified transportation projects to submit for outside funding.
I particularly like the Judicial Drive bike lanes project. I live in Westmore and bike in this direction frequently. I would think accommodating bike lanes from Main Street would be easier than adding them to the steep hill from the curve up to 123. There seems to plenty of space in the former section to add bike lanes now. I would hope the project could be phased so we can get bike lanes at least on one part relatively soon.
I also hope the Fern Street extension can be phased and start soon so that we can walk across 29 to the shopping center restaurants that we partronize frequently. It is a 15-minute walk but given the difficulty of crossing 29, we typically drive.
1. Small projects are fine, but the City should be concerned with its overall traffic capacity on arteries and main roads - and the effects of new land development under the constraints imposed by capacity.
2. Why does the City constantly replace good curbs with new curbs, damaging the road surfaces, slowing traffic, and costing money?
The first and most difficult step to improving safety on our roadways is to reduce traffic speed. Once (if) you successfully lower the speed limit, the city will be safer for pedestrians and bicyclists. Then locate where spot improvements need to be made. The huge master planning of roads like Blenheim Blvd is urban planning gone awry. Good intentions but many people will be negatively affected during the many months (years?) of installation and the outcome will be disappointing to many. Also, if planning is based on people biking, then plan on them using electric bikes at 15-20 mph. Only very fit people will use a non-electric bike for daily commuting and errands around a rolling hill topography like Fairfax.
40 years ago there were 800 homes and 1600 cars using Mosby Woods and Plantation Parkway. It worked well then and it still works well today. We do not need or want traffic calming or unnecessary improvements in Mosby woods. It's not broke so Pease don't try and fix it !!!!!
I am all in support of the Judicial Drive bike lanes. Hopefully those become a reality in the next 6-8 years.
I see Vision Zero plan. I don't want to be negative, but I've seen a lot of Vision Zero planning across the country, but very little tangible progress, because folks who draft these plans are not willing to do what really needs to be done. Until you put in infrastructure that is built to put people first & slow/limit cars, it's all just talk and pointless hand-wringing.
Road diets. Reduced speed. Street parking removal. Sidewalk widening. Tree planting along road-sides. All the "drive safe" and "watch out when crossing the road" campaigns are meaningless if you don't do the work. If you simply cave to every driver who is slightly inconvenienced, then Vision Zero is just zero vision.