Active Transportation Program

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Lauren Delmare
Active Transportation Program Manager

ActiveFairfax Transportation Plan

Community Feedback Sought for Active Transportation and Trail Network

FCDOT is working to combine the Fairfax County Bicycle Master Plan and the Countywide Trails Plan, and is seeking comments to ensure a safe, comfortable and convenient network of active transportation options and trails. 


Learn More and Submit Feedback
  1. Watch the November 12, 2024 Community Meeting • View the Presentation
  2. Watch the ActiveFairfax Video English • SpanishActive Transportation and Trails Plan Draft Map Thumbnail
  3. Watch the draft Active Transportation and Trail Network StoryMap
  4. View the draft Active Transportation and Trail Network Map
  5. View the Active Transportation Toolkit
  6. Listen to the County Conversation Podcast

Three ways to submit feedback, including:

  • Take a brief community survey; or
  • Leave a comment using the Interactive Network Map; or
  • Call 703-890-5898, Project Code 7268 to leave a recorded message with your comments

Survey feedback and comments will be accepted through Dec. 20, 2024.
 

Background Information

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 this fall 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 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:

  • Phase One included the development of a vision statement with supporting goals and objectives as well as a thorough inventory and assessment of previous planning efforts and existing conditions. This phase also included the development of a Safe Streets for All Program plan. Phase One was completed in May 2022.
  • Phase Two includes the development of active transportation network recommendations and facility and an implementation approach that includes policy, program, and project prioritization strategies.
  • A robust community engagement and awareness effort will be continuous during both phases of the project.

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:

  • provide an engagement effort that provides a wide variety of outreach tools and activities that aim to ensure all County residents’ mobility concerns, needs, and desires are understood and considered;
  • develop a vision to help shape the future of active transportation in Fairfax County; 
  • consolidate previous active transportation planning efforts into one cohesive document that is easy-to-digest and track performance;
  • encourage livable street design through the development of tools and products that ensures our transportation network connects people to where they live, work, play, learn and take transit; 
  • support access to safe, comfortable and connected active transportation facilities (such as shared-use paths, bike lanes and sidewalks) for people of all ages, incomes and abilities;
  • provide clear direction to improve safety for our most vulnerable transportation users; and
  • begin the planning process to update the Fairfax County Comprehensive Plan.

RRFB Reston Town Center

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.


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