I-66 Outside the Beltway

[chris_s]

My initial thoughts working from east to west:

Good to see they appear to be trying to connect the trailhead at Gallows to the W&OD Gallows crossing. Unclear how cyclists traveling south down Gallows from the W&OD access the trailhead at Stenhouse Place? Is there a safe place to cross the street from the bike lanes, etc?

Trail is complete from Gallows to the Nutley interchange and then there appears to be a “and somehow you get over to Virginia Center Blvd” and then maybe Fairfax County will put bike accommodations on Virginia Center Blvd / Country Creek Road / Sutton Road.

Trail picks back up at Blake Lane and is continuous until Route 50 interchange where it either dumps you onto Fairfax Farms Road or into a potential future trail in Random Hills Park to the sidepath on Random Hills Road.

Perhaps a suitable bike connection could be strung together along Random Hills Road to Government Center Parkway to Post Forest Drive to West Ox Road. The 66 trail appears to start again at West Ox Road, but without a connection to the existing sidepath along West Ox Road?

Unclear where / if the proposed trail would cross Fairfax County Parkway – plan shows detouring bikes all the way up the on and off ramps to a potential crossing off-page somewhere?

Potential gap behind Fair Lakes Shopping Center Target? (line goes from “proposed trail” to “potential trail by others” for a brief stretch)

Trail crosses Stringfellow Road at traffic signal – is trail continuous past the Park & Ride? Unclear.

Trail then gets you as far as Sully Road (Rte 28), which it connects to or drops you to a potential to-be-buit-by-others trail connection along Braddock Road in Ellanor C Lawrence Park. Everything west of here is to-be-built-by-others-maybe.

[mstone]

@chris_s 125538 wrote:

My initial thoughts working from east to west:

Good to see they appear to be trying to connect the trailhead at Gallows to the W&OD Gallows crossing. Unclear how cyclists traveling south down Gallows from the W&OD access the trailhead at Stenhouse Place? Is there a safe place to cross the street from the bike lanes, etc?

Trail is complete from Gallows to the Nutley interchange and then there appears to be a “and somehow you get over to Virginia Center Blvd” and then maybe Fairfax County will put bike accommodations on Virginia Center Blvd / Country Creek Road / Sutton Road.

Trail picks back up at Blake Lane and is continuous until Route 50 interchange where it either dumps you onto Fairfax Farms Road or into a potential future trail in Random Hills Park to the sidepath on Random Hills Road.

Perhaps a suitable bike connection could be strung together along Random Hills Road to Government Center Parkway to Post Forest Drive to West Ox Road. The 66 trail appears to start again at West Ox Road, but without a connection to the existing sidepath along West Ox Road?

Unclear where / if the proposed trail would cross Fairfax County Parkway – plan shows detouring bikes all the way up the on and off ramps to a potential crossing off-page somewhere?

Potential gap behind Fair Lakes Shopping Center Target? (line goes from “proposed trail” to “potential trail by others” for a brief stretch)

Trail crosses Stringfellow Road at traffic signal – is trail continuous past the Park & Ride? Unclear.

Trail then gets you as far as Sully Road (Rte 28), which it connects to or drops you to a potential to-be-buit-by-others trail connection along Braddock Road in Ellanor C Lawrence Park. Everything west of here is to-be-built-by-others-maybe.

For Random Hills, that’s probably a good alignment. I’d guess FCPA is already on board with the trail but VDOT can’t put it as part of this project’s plans because it’s out of scope. Random Hills road itself is relatively bikeable except for out of control speeding, but if the 66 trail were routed here maybe we can finally get a road diet and a bike facility. (No way does the traffic volume require that much road.) I think Gov’t Center Pkwy was already on the roadmap for bike facilities. At FFX Co Pkwy I’d assume they’re going to use the below-grade crossing at Fair Lakes Circle. The devil’s in the details there with the alignment of the trail intersections, but it’s tremendously preferable to any at-grade crossing. If we got all that I’d be ecstatic.

[TwoWheelsDC]

@mstone 125543 wrote:

Random Hills

Is that near Sudden Valley?

[mstone]

@TwoWheelsDC 125547 wrote:

Is that near Sudden Valley?

It’s hard to predict

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