Alexandria will receive $160,000 for two transportation projects that will improve pedestrian, bicycle, and roadway safety.
The National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB) has approved the funding as part of its Transportation Land-Use Connections (TLC) Program and Regional Roadway Safety Program (RRSP).
The city will get $80,000 for the Beauregard Trail Feasibility Study and another $80,000 for Braddock Road Safety Improvements.
The Beauregard Trail project will receive funding from the TLC and will create conceptual designs and cost estimates for a trail on North Beauregard Street. Potential upgrades include a shared-use path, improved crosswalks, median islands, concrete work, signs, signals, and landscaping.
Beauregard Trail Feasibility Study
Alexandria, $80,000
This project will produce conceptual designs and cost estimates for a trail on North Beauregard Street. Improvements may include, but not be limited to, a shared use path, new crosswalks or improvements to existing crosswalks, median islands, concrete improvements, signs, signals, and landscaping. This project will advance the AlexWest Small Area Plan to enhance connectivity for pedestrians and bicyclists through an off-road multi-use path on North Beauregard. The project will also support the City’s Alexandria Mobility Plan goals of creating a safe, comfortable walking and biking environment, making transit easier to use.
The Braddock Road project will receive funding from the RRSP and will develop design options for safety improvements between Quaker Lane and North Van Dorn Street. This comes in response to increased foot traffic, especially students walking between the updated Minnie Howard Campus of Alexandria City High School and the main campus.
Braddock Road Safety Improvements
City of Alexandria, $80,000
This project will develop conceptual design alternatives for safety improvements on Braddock Road between Quaker Lane and North Van Dorn Street in response to an increase of pedestrian traffic with many students walking between the updated Minnie Howard Campus of Alexandria City High School and the main campus. The project will include existing conditions analysis, traffic analysis, and community outreach. This project is listed in the City’s Complete Streets Five-Year Work Plan.
These projects are part of a broader $760,000 funding package approved by the TPB for nine local planning projects across the Washington, D.C. metro area.
Since 2007, the TLC Program has funded 191 projects totaling over $9.2 million. The RRSP, launched in 2020, has supported 32 projects with more than $2.1 million in funding.
