The Virginia Department of Transportation's (VDOT) Northern Virginia Paving Program improves hundreds of miles of roads in Fairfax County every year. VDOT and the Fairfax County Department of Transportation (FCDOT) use this program as an opportunity to increase safety for people who walk, bike, and drive with road and crosswalk improvements while minimizing the financial investment in restriping work.
Through the restriping program, FCDOT reviews VDOT's draft repaving list and searches for opportunities to add new active transportation improvements through striping modifications. These improvements typically include bike lanes, crosswalks, and road diets.
FCDOT staff will host virtual public information meetings to provide an overview of proposed restriping projects in each affected district. Please refer to the table below for upcoming district meetings, proposed locations and feedback instructions.
A recording of each meeting, along with any shared slides, will be uploaded to this webpage shortly after the meeting concludes. Residents will then have two weeks to submit comments and respond to a survey about each proposed project.
Public Information Meetings; Submitting Feedback
Each year, the community is invited to provide striping-related feedback by attending a virtual public meeting and/or by submitting comments online. Meeting logistics and proposals will be posted by district as soon as they available. While meetings used to be held in the Spring prior to the Summer repaving season, meetings have more recently been scheduled to the fall of the previous calendar year to build in more time to the process.
The deadline for public comments will be two weeks after each district meeting is held.
Comments on proposed striping modifications (e.g., bike lanes, turn lanes, crosswalks, new on-street parking areas, new centerline markings and/or sight distance issues due to parked vehicles) can be submitted electronically to FCDOT; forms will be available with a list of proposed striping projects for all districts prior to every public meeting.
Road maintenance-related comments (e.g., drainage issues, missing signage, signal repair, walkway repair and sight distance issues due to vegetation overgrowth) should be submitted through the myVDOT portal: https://my.vdot.virginia.gov/. Unfortunately, no additional roads can be added to the preliminary paving schedule once it is released. If you would like to request road repairs, please follow the "I need a road repaired" link on the VDOT portal or call 1-800-FOR-ROAD (1-800-367-7623).
Information for Residents
- VDOT will begin repaving and restriping roadways in the spring and conclude in November. Exact work dates are available approximately ten days prior to work beginning, as contractors set schedules based on personnel and equipment availability.
- Residents can expect work vehicles in their neighborhood during the project.
- Motorists are asked to be alert to temporary traffic patterns. Cars, basketball hoops or garbage cans may need to be temporarily relocated while work is under way.
- On other roads such as interstates and some primaries, work may occur overnight.
Resources
For more information about bike infrastructure in Fairfax County, see the following resources:
- A Driver's Guide to Bike Lanes in Fairfax County (Brochure)
- Complete Streets: Getting Safely to Work, School, Shops and Play (Infographic)
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