Transportation Alert:
FCDOT is working to combine the Fairfax County Bicycle Master Plan and the Countywide Trails Plan to ensure a safe, comfortable and convenient network of active transportation options and trails. Learn more with resources used during our public outreach and comment period from Fall 2024:
The proposed Active Transportation and Trail Network combines and updates the Bicycle Master Plan and Countywide Trails Plan and introduces a framework for safe, comfortable and convenient active transportation and recreational routes. Active transportation means self-propelled, mostly human-powered travel including walking, biking, rolling (scooter, wheelchair, stroller), hiking, running, and riding for transportation and recreational purposes.
Feedback from the open houses and meetings held throughout Fall 2024 will be added to previous planning initiatives, best practices, and comments collected in Spring 2021 to help develop a multi-modal transportation network that serves residents and visitors of all ages and abilities, values environmental stewardship and works toward equity. The plan will establish a vision and a roadmap for implementation of safe, convenient, and enjoyable streets and trails in Fairfax County.
Review the draft Active Transportation Toolkit to learn more about proposed active transportation and trail facilities, facility design guidelines and best practices, and how practitioners and resident task forces can use the network map to plan and design active transportation facilities and trails in Fairfax County.
The Active Transportation Plan introduces a framework for advancing active transportation that includes an overarching vision statement, goals, objectives that are rooted in the public feedback received in Spring 2021, previous planning efforts and initiatives, and best practices.
The vision statement will be used as a guide to help Fairfax County make decisions that align with its philosophy and declared set of goals. Goals reflect the desired result that Fairfax County and its partners envision, plan, and commit to achieve. View the final vision statement, goals and objectives (adopted Nov. 9, 2021).
The project launched in the summer of 2020 and is expected to be complete by the end of 2025. The project has been split into two district phases:
Fairfax County is continuing its efforts to prioritize transportation for all with its launch of the ActiveFairfax Transportation Plan. Active transportation is self-propelled, human-powered travel including activities such as walking, biking, rolling (scooter/wheelchair/stroller), hiking, running and riding.
Through collaboration with partners across the region, the ActiveFairfax Transportation Plan will:
The ActiveFairfax Transportation Plan will build off of and combine recommendations from the following documents:
You can also follow the project by:
| Date | Time | District | Location | Address |
| Tuesday, Sept. 3 | 6 p.m. | Providence | Graham Road Community Center | 3036 Graham Road; Falls Church, VA 22042 |
| Thursday, Sept. 5 | 6 p.m. | Sully | London Towne Elementary School | 6100 Stone Road; Centreville, VA 20120 |
| Saturday, Sept. 7 | 11 a.m. | Franconia | Garfield Elementary School | 7101 Old Keene Mill Road; Springfield, VA 22150 |
| Saturday, Sept. 7 | 2 p.m. | Franconia | Mount Eagle Elementary School | 6116 N. Kings Hwy., Alexandria, VA 22303 |
| Monday, Sept. 9 | 6 p.m. | Dranesville | McLean Community Center | 1234 Ingleside Avenue; McLean, VA 22101 |
| Wednesday, Sept. 11 | 6 p.m. | Braddock | Laurel Ridge Elementary School | 10110 Commonwealth Ave., Fairfax, VA 22032 |
| Thursday, Sept. 12 | 6 p.m. | Hunter Mill | Dogwood Elementary School | 12300 Glade Drive; Reston, VA 20191 |
| Saturday, Sept. 14 | 11 a.m. | Mason | Weyanoke Elementary School | 6520 Braddock Road; Alexandria, VA 22312 |
| Saturday, Sept. 14 | 2 p.m. | Mason | Bailey's Elementary School | 6111 Knollwood Drive; Bailey's Crossroads, VA 22041 |
| Monday, Sept. 16 | 6 p.m. | Springfield | Greenbriar West Elementary School | 13300 Poplar Tree Road; Fairfax, VA 22033 |
| Saturday, Sept. 21 | 11 a.m. | Mount Vernon | Riverside Elementary School | 8410 Old Mount Vernon Road; Alexandria, VA 22309 |
| Saturday, Sept. 21 | 2 p.m. | Mount Vernon | Lorton Station Elementary School | 9298 Lewis Chapel Road; Lorton, VA 22079 |
| Wednesday, Oct. 9 | 7 p.m. | Government Center | Trails, Sidewalks and Bikeways Committee Meeting | 12000 Government Center Parkway; Fairfax, VA 22033 (Room 7) |
| Thursday, Oct. 10 | 7:30 p.m. | Government Center | Transportation Advisory Committee | 12000 Government Center Parkway; Fairfax, VA 22033 (Room 11) |
| Virtual Meetings | ||||
| Tuesday, Nov. 12 | 7 p.m. | Virtual | Watch the meeting video; View the meeting presentation | |
| Thursday, Nov. 14 | 12 p.m. | Virtual | Watch the meeting video; View the meeting presentation | |
| Tuesday, Nov. 19 | 12 p.m. | Virtual | Watch the meeting video; View the meeting presentation | |
| Wednesday, Nov. 20 | 7 p.m. | Virtual - Spanish | Watch the meeting video; View the meeting presentation | |
Thank you to those who attended one of the 12 virtual community conversations in Spring 2021 as well as the hundreds of respondents who took time to respond to the survey. Read the Spring 2021 Outreach Summary and Report.
• View the recording of the Vision, Goals and Objectives community meeting.
• View the recordings of the Safe Streets for All community meetings.
• View all past meeting recordings and materials.
In June 2024, the Board of Supervisors endorsed the Bicycle Parking Guidelines.
On May 10, 2022, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors unanimously endorsed the Safe Streets for All Program Recommendations, a comprehensive initiative to address systemic transportation safety issues for people walking, biking and using other forms of active transportation.