Roads in Bailey’s Crossroads scheduled for repaving
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| The roads in red in this area of Bailey’s Crossroads are on VDOT’s road paving schedule. |
The Virginia Department of Transportation’s 2019 road paving and restriping program in Mason District will focus mostly on the Falls Church, Bailey’s Crossroads, and Bren Mar Park areas. See the VDOT map for specific roads.
VDOT staff will explain its plans for Mason District at a community meeting April 1, 6:30 p.m., at Belvedere Elementary School.
Along with roads in subdivisions, the paving plan in Mason District includes:
- Little River Turnpike between Lincolnia and Old Columbia Pike, between Evergreen Lane and the Beltway, and between Lake Boulevard and Prosperity Avenue.
- Edsall Road between Backlick Road and the Beltway.
- Lincolnia Road between Columbia Pike and Braddock Road.
- Seminary Road between Columbia Pike and S. George Mason Drive.
- Holmes Run Road.
- South Street.
In addition to the repaving projects, VDOT and the Fairfax County Department of Transportation are proposing to add bicycle facilities to the following roads:
- Carlin Springs Road – Bike lanes.
- Glen Carlyn Drive – Buffered bike lanes.
- Glen Carlyn Road – Buffered bike lanes and a two-way left turn lane.
- Patrick Henry Drive – Buffered bike lanes.
- Seminary Road from the Columbia Pike ramp to Carlin Springs Road – A southbound bike lane would be added, along with shared lane markings on the northbound travel lane.
- South Street from Annandale Road to Arlington Boulevard – An eastbound bike lane plus shared lane markings on the westbound travel lane. Where space allows, bike lanes will be striped in both directions.
On all of those roads where bike lanes would be added, current vehicular travel patterns and legal on-street parking spaces will not be affected.
Paving and restriping projects will be carried out from April to November. Exact work dates will be available about 10 days before the start of work, as contractors’ schedules are based on personnel and equipment availability.
In subdivisions, “no parking” signs with precise date information will be posted at least three business days before the work starts. Cars, basketball hoops, and garbage cans might need to be temporarily relocated while work is under way.
The work is usually not done during rush hours. Crews typically work on neighborhood streets weekdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. On other roads, such as interstates and some primary roads, work may occur overnight.
Residents can submit comments to VDOT about paving or striping-related issues or the need for road repairs. Additional roads won’t be added to the 2019 paving schedule.
This would be great news if I didn't know that utility crews will quickly make a mess of these roads. The way they left Columbia Pike in the Annandale business district is a crying shame. – Sparky
Just looked at the interactive map. I hope this is not final. Kerns road between Sleepy Hollow and Annandale is a disaster and it's not on the list to be repaved. Very disappointing.
YES! Rio Drive! FINALLY!
Are the bike lanes really needed? Today I was on Gallows Rd, right off of Columbia Pike, bike lanes on both sides were empty from end to end while there were plenty of cars. I don't believe that creating more bike lanes will bring more bikers.
I hope they put in more. My husband would bike to work except that when he did the 4 mile bike ride for just three days he was almost hit twice. Drivers in the morning just were not paying attention. Columbia pike and the neighborhoods are crazy with people passing red lighted school buses, not stopping for pedestrians, and running stop signs while speeding.
Again I will say for a 1/2 dozen times. We need bike lanes that can get bikers to employment centers. The heavy bike traffic is Columbia Pike to the Pentagon and to 4 mile run. Once in Arlington/Four Mile run + (the smart county) bikers have a less dangerous commute. The Fairfax leadership needs to get out of their cars and on bike and commute to DC to understand the experience and the dangerous commutes bikers face every day Fairfax.
Long overdue. Some roads are just a disaster. Seminary road, until they were filled that last week, had dozens of potholes in small stretch, bunch of huge ones.
I wrote yesterday and apparently my opinion was not included in the comments. I urge you to contact VDOT via their pothole site, and ask for the utility companies pave Columbia Pike correctly. Their haphazard paving effort was pitiful and must be corrected. VDOT can make them repave the holes they created. I also mentioned that our Suupervisor could also contact them. Maybe that is why my comment was not included.
Columbia Pike is a mess. For bikers it is like riding over moon craters. The utility work being done between Baileys and Four Mile Run is disastrous. Most of this is in Arlington County and the County's VDOT needs to address these concerns.
Arlington and Fairfax have done a terrible job in prioritizing the redevelopment of Columbia Pike. And putting bikes and pedestrians on a future 10' sidewalk is just plain stupid and dangerous for bikers and pedestrians. Bikes need to be on the roadway. As I said earlier these antiques running both counties need to get out of their huge SUVs and bike Columbia pike from Baileys to the Pentagon. They would probably piss in their pants!
Bike lanes are not just for bikers.
Once the roads are paved, striping is the next thing to be done. According to VDOT and FCDOT, creating bike lanes or other striping efforts can help to reduce speeds on residential roads. The lines in the road make the roads seem visually narrower. This illusion reduces speeds on roads. Striping is far more cost effective for the drivers and the county than speed bumps or other traffic calming measures.
That said, creating bike lanes by confiscating property, or unnecessarily large sidewalks where we eliminate old growth trees that give our neighborhoods the character we desire is something that should require serious community input. That was the issue in Sleepy Hollow.
As Supervisor, I will work to ensure that the community's voice is heard and that we check, double check, and check again before we embark on a project that confiscates land from landowners.
Gary as a biker I disagree with you. I bike every day and pedestrian and bikers are both put at risk on multi-modal paths. This is not the old days when only a handful of bikers used the paths. The paths are over crowded particularly that their has been an exponential uptick in bike riders.
Here is a statistic for you. I commute from Mason every day by bike to L'Enfant Plaza: the bike ride takes 35 mins, by car 45 mins and by mass transit; 16L and yellow line 75 mins. The bike lanes have swelled to over full capacity, particularly in the warmer months: 4 mile run and Mt Vernon. Our politicians need to do better. Starting off by saying the bike lanes are just not for bikers is not a political smart move to launch from; big turn off!
I bike to work every day too and the bike paths, particularly bike trails are overcrowded with bike commuters, scooters, strollers, dog walkers, joggers, and walkers. This makes the bikers'commute more difficult at rush hour because bikers want to get to work. As a result safety is compromised.
Bikers should protest and not commute by bike for a few days. This would really swell the roads and ther metro system. Then one should take a photo and send it to Amazon stating "This will be your employees commute every day, be prepared, they will be late for work. You can thank the genius leadership in Arlington and Farifax for their cutting edge plans to improve transportation to your new headquarters."