Improvements On Horizon for Fairfax Parkway?
Fairfax County supervisors may direct VDOT to study long-term congestion fix on the roadway, which could include HOV and HOT lanes.
Fairfax County officials are considering tasking the Virginia Department of Transportation with studying potential improvements to the Fairfax County Parkway. Supervisor Pat Herrity (R-Springfield) put forth a motion for staff to request that VDOT study the 35-mile highway, which runs from Springfield to the Loudoun County line, identifying ways to decrease congestion, including HOT and HOV lanes. The Parkway currently carries up to 80,000 vehicles a day, and that number is only expected to increase, Herrity told his colleagues. “This critical corridor is currently handling more traffic than it was designed for, is continually congested and shortly will be handling interstate level volumes,” he said in his motion. According to the county’s…
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Mark Carolla
2:01 pm on Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Our county and state politicians only recently recognized this? Since when is a 4-lane "Parkway" a "secondary road?" This road was planned and built as a 4-lane parkway...not a farm to market road. This explains a lot about our traffic woes if it took two decades for our politicians to discover this. Two definitions of "Parkway: "A broad landscaped highway, often divided by a planted median strip… more ›