2-Wk Custis Trail Detour, Aug 24-Sep 6

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August 20, 2020 at 9:00 pm #921968

Henry
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From VDOT:

Custis Trail to Close at Bon Air Park in Arlington for

Two Weeks, August 24-September 6

Detour in place during construction of new trail roundabout

FAIRFAX – The Custis Trail will close in Arlington’s Bon Air Park between the Washington and Old Dominion (W&OD) Trail and the I-66 underpass for up to two weeks for construction to create a roundabout to enhance safety for trail users. The closure is planned from Monday, August 24, through Sunday, September 6. Detour signs will be posted to direct pedestrians, cyclists, and other trail users around the closure. This work is being done as a component of the Transform 66 Inside the Beltway Eastbound Widening Project.

A posted detour will route users around the closure using the W&OD Trail, Wilson Boulevard, N. Lexington Street, and N. 9th Road to reach the bike/pedestrian bridge over I-66. Delineators will be placed temporarily on a short span of Wilson Boulevard to separate cyclists from vehicle traffic and provide a wider bike lane to allow cyclists to travel in both directions for about 500 feet. The sidewalk on the north side of Wilson Boulevard will also be available for trail users.

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A roundabout is being constructed on the south side of the Custis Trail I-66 underpass to improve safety and sightlines for pedestrians, cyclists, and other users of the Custis Trail and Bon Air Park. The Custis Trail remains closed under I-66 for safety reasons while an additional travel lane is added overhead. The trail is expected to fully reopen in late October 2020.

The I-66 Eastbound Widening Project will add a travel lane along four miles of eastbound I-66 and install approximately 12,000 linear feet of new and replacement noise barriers. The project also includes constructing a new direct access ramp from eastbound I-66 to the West Falls Church Metro Station at the Route 7 interchange, and a new W&OD Trail bridge over Lee Highway (Route 29). Learn more about the project at inside.transform66.org.

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September 14, 2020 at 12:38 pm #1106550

Judd
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@Steve O 202308 wrote:

I’ll have to check it out, but I think a circle seems like a round peg in a slightly ovalized hole or something.

I can imagine something that functions like the circle but is not shaped like it, more like an elongated triangle. What the designers missed was that 90%+ of the traffic is the Custis and only a small fraction will use the south-side detour route. That’s just a neighborhood connector, really.

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A traffic circle has also been proposed numerous times for the junction of Four Mile Run Trail and the Mount Vernon Trail. Can you draw a picture of how you would do that one?

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September 14, 2020 at 1:06 pm #1106551

DanB
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@Judd 202318 wrote:

A traffic circle has also been proposed numerous times for the junction of Four Mile Run Trail and the Mount Vernon Trail. Can you draw a picture of how you would do that one?

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When you see the incredible number of bridges being built along I-66, it couldn’t be that hard to get a flyover built for the northbound lane of the MVT. Could it? [emoji848]

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September 14, 2020 at 3:31 pm #1106552

Judd
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@DanB 202319 wrote:

When you see the incredible number of bridges being built along I-66, it couldn’t be that hard to get a flyover built for the northbound lane of the MVT. Could it? [emoji848]

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I don’t want to encourage people to call for tolls on the MVT to pay for it. [emoji1787]

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September 15, 2020 at 2:04 am #1106555

zsionakides
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@DanB 202319 wrote:

When you see the incredible number of bridges being built along I-66, it couldn’t be that hard to get a flyover built for the northbound lane of the MVT. Could it? [emoji848]

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Yes, but this doesn’t solve the 4MR to southbound MVT contact point. You’ll need a full overpass and clover leaf to handle both.

September 15, 2020 at 12:52 pm #1106557

DrP
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@dbb 202305 wrote:

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Here is a shot from Friday morning. This is the uphill exit from the circle and evidence of folks cutting the corner (I’m of the position that these are inadvertent).

Not sure any cyclists were consulted in the design. If Arlington only had some group that would offer advice on such matters. Maybe they could call it a Bicycle Advisory Group, or something like that.

I agree that they are likely inadvertent. I have nearly had to do that every time I passed through so far. It is getting better and I start to brake earlier, but it is not at all a natural turn. They need a bit more asphalt there and in the equivalent location in the other direction.

September 15, 2020 at 4:09 pm #1106559

lordofthemark
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@Judd 202320 wrote:

I don’t want to encourage people to call for tolls on the MVT to pay for it. [emoji1787]

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Now, if the tolls were variable, and kicked in only when the trail was overcrowded ……

September 16, 2020 at 5:04 pm #1106561

ursus
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@consularrider 202273 wrote:

There’s been the W&OD mm0 traffic circle forever, hardly anyone follows traffic circle etiquette there.

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There is also one at the other end in Purcellville which is easy not to notice.

September 16, 2020 at 9:41 pm #1106564

mstone
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@ursus 202330 wrote:

There is also one at the other end in Purcellville which is easy not to notice.

it used to be a decorative medallion, I have NFI what happened to that
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