Help Name the Bicycle and Pedestrian Trail Along I-66

[bentbike33]

@ImaCynic 191262 wrote:

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/transportation/name-i-66-trail

Needs more nominees:

9. Future Additional Travel Lane Temporary Trail (FATLTT)
10. Garbage Trough Trail (GTT)
11. Hell’s Gulch Trail (HGT)

[mstone]

wow, those are terrible. and seeing the trail route highlighted is depressing.

[lordofthemark]

12. Think how much bike gear you can buy saving $40 on tolls regularly Trail

[LeprosyStudyGroup]

So did they end up building this so that the bikers will be a squishy barrier between the highway traffic and the soundwalls?
If that’s the case:
13. Thanks, I Hate It! Trail

[scoot]

@mstone 191266 wrote:

seeing the trail route highlighted is depressing.

14. The “Route Designer’s Day Job Is Drawing Legislative District Boundaries” Trail

[drevil]

@LeprosyStudyGroup 191270 wrote:

So did they end up building this so that the bikers will be a squishy barrier between the highway traffic and the soundwalls?
If that’s the case:
13. Thanks, I Hate It! Trail

One of my favorite subreddits https://www.reddit.com/r/TIHI/

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[bentbike33]

15: National Association of Hearing-Aid Manufacturers Trail (NAHAMT)
16: Perpetual Code Orange Air Quality Alert Trail (PCOAQAT)

[dasgeh]

Isn’t the trail next to 66 the “Custis Trail” ? why change it?

[ChristoB50]

Custis is the short section of trail along 66 in Arlington. The new trail / enhancements under naming consideration above, runs through Fairfax County, along 66 outside the beltway…

[scoot]

17. “Fairfax Unconcerned. Cyclists Killed? Try Highways As Trails” Trail
18. “Soundwall Hides Icky Treadlers” Trail

[scoot]

@dasgeh 191277 wrote:

Isn’t the trail next to 66 the “Custis Trail” ? why change it?

Mary Anna Custis might get lonely once her husband has been banished from the area…

[phog]

Arlington has the ART Bus; Since this connects to Fairfax, that Becomes FART.

Or the ART-CDT; All roadside trees cut down trail.

I vote for RIDE – the Roadside, Inhale Diesel Exhaust trail.

I just know that riding on it will be reminiscent of playing “Bob’s Country Bunker” when you’re The Blues Brothers’ Band. Lucky that chicken wire is there!

[mstone]

@ChristoB50 191279 wrote:

Custis is the short section of trail along 66 in Arlington. The new trail / enhancements under naming consideration above, runs through Fairfax County, along 66 outside the beltway…

yes, it would be completely crazy to name the trail that runs along 66 the same thing regardless of whether its inside or outside the beltway. this is the same reason it’s called 66 inside the beltway and…oh, nevemind

[ChristoB50]

There’s a big “gap” of 66 with no trail running alongside it, between the FFX route and the start of the named Custis Trail near Patrick Henry… It would never occur to me to view that FFX route as a ‘continuation’ of the existing Custis (which itself, doesn’t even run the length of 66 while inside the beltway.)

I couldn’t tell (map was too tiny) if it the FFX trail route would connect to the WOD somewhere near the beltway? — but surely it would…?

But if the FFX route connects cleanly with WOD, which then gives its spur-connection to Custis at Patrick Henry, its easy enough to envision calling that FFX portion “Custis” as well — and simply signing the trail as “WOD / Custis” for the span of pavement that carries both named routes for a portion before they diverge…

Of course, “Custis” wasn’t in the 8 voting options to begin with…

[n18]

@ChristoB50 191286 wrote:

I couldn’t tell (map was too tiny) if it the FFX trail route would connect to the WOD somewhere near the beltway? — but surely it would…?

The new trail only goes to Dunn Loring metro, with grade separated ramps that gets you to Gallows RD(There is no exit for cars to Gallows RD currently, nor one is planned), and from there you go to the W&OD. See a list of maps here, which are West first, East last. You need to scroll all the way down to the bottom to “Segment 3_08 Dunn Loring”. Here is a link to the PDF, but it’s huge.

Edit: See “View bicycle and pedestrian trail plans for Fairfax County” for an easier to see trail. Here is a link to the PDF. The purple parts are the segment inside the noise wall.

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