The National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB) approved approximately $7.2 million dollars in federal funding for eight local, non-highway transportation projects in Northern Virginia.
The projects will be funded by the Transportation Alternatives Set-Aside (TA Set-Aside) Program, which funds small-scale projects such as pedestrian and bicycle facilities, trails, safe routes to school (SRTS) projects, and other community improvements.
Funded projects include:
- Streetscape Phase 2A (Town of Clifton) - $316,579
This project will improve the pedestrian safety of the Clifton Historic District by adding new sidewalks, crosswalks, signage, landscaping, and lighting to a stretch of Main Street.
- University Drive Bicycle Facilities (City of Fairfax) - $914,745
This project will add a mixture of “super sharrows” and on-road bicycle lanes, helping create a multimodal spine through Old Town Fairfax.
- Vienna Metro Bike and Pedestrian Improvements (Fairfax County) - $800,000
This project will construct a shared-use path, two-way cycle track, and sidewalk from Blake Lane to the Vienna Metro I-66 westbound ramp, dramatically increasing connectivity with the nearby Oakton High School.
- Shrevewood Elementary School SRTS (Fairfax County) - $800,000
The project will add three new crosswalks with sidewalk or shared use path connections serving Shrevewood Elementary School and the W&OD Trail.
- Plaza Street Sidewalk (Town of Leesburg) - $800,000
This project will finish the construction of approximately 1,000 feet of sidewalk along the west side of Plaza Street, completing a missing link in the town’s sidewalk system.
- Sterling Boulevard Sidewalk: Shaw Road to W&OD (Loudoun County) - $1,300,000
This project will design and construct 0.56 miles of missing sidewalk links along Sterling Boulevard, providing a direct connection to the W&OD Trail, a key artery in the National Capital Trail Network.
- Old Carolina Road Sidewalk Improvements (Prince William County) - $1,522,034
This project will construct an asphalt sidewalk to connect a missing link on the east side of Old Carolina Road to the existing asphalt trail just north of the bridge over I-66.
- Token Forest Drive Sidewalk (Prince William County) - $719,534
This will connect residents of the Forest Glen estates housing community with a church, grocery store, medical clinic, and more at the Hoadly Marketplace commercial development.
The projects support key TPB planning priorities that are also central to the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments’ (COG) new Metropolitan Washington Planning Framework for 2030. Several projects are within or close to an Equity Emphasis Area (EEA), 350 locations with high concentrations of traditionally underserved communities. These areas will require special focus over the next decade. In addition, most of the projects provide access to the National Capital Trail Network, a 1400-mile system of trails that will connect the entire region when completed.
The TA Set-Aside Program is part of the Federal Surface Transportation Block Grant Program. The TPB administers the program as a component of its Transportation Land-Use Connections (TLC) Program.
MORE: About the TA Set Aside Program