Four Mile Run Drive Complete Streets Project - Existing Conditions
Four Mile Run Drive Complete Streets Project - Existing Conditions
S. George Mason Drive to S. Walter Reed Drive
Welcome!
There are three parts to this public engagement opportunity for the Four Mile Run Drive Resurfacing for Complete Streets Project:
- Project Location and Existing Conditions
- We will define the project area and show you what is there today.
- Questions About Your Experiences
- On this page, we have four questions for you about how you use this intersection and your experiences while traveling here.
- Interactive Map
- You will be able to add your notes to specific locations within the project area. Your more detailed experiences will help the project team develop a conceptual design for the project.
This engagement opportunity is open through November 12. Your experiences will help inform the development of the concept plan, along with other available information, such as plan guidance and crash data. Thank you for helping improve our projects to better meet your needs!
Project Basis
Planning guidance from this project comes from the following County Board-adopted plans and policies
- Streets Element: The Complete Street policy informs the scope of this project to improve safety for all road users.
Vision Zero policies call on County Transportation staff to take a proactive approach to safety to eliminate severe and fatal crashes from our transportation network by 2030.
- High Injury Network: Four Mile Run Drive is part of Arlington County’s High Injury Network (2021). These corridors experience high concentrations of critical crashes compared to other corridors in Arlington.
- Four Mile Run Drive High Injury Network Safety Audit – Spring 2022
- Findings from the audit include low traffic volumes for a two-lane arterial roadway, speeding issues and community interest in reducing vehicle speeds and improving pedestrian crossings.
- Four Mile Run Drive High Injury Network Safety Audit – Spring 2022
- Crash Hot Spots: The intersections of S. Walter Reed Drive & Four Mile Run Drive and S. George Mason Drive & Four Mile Run Drive were identified as crash hot spots in 2019 for vehicle and bicycle crashes.
- The Four Mile Run Area Plan (2018) presents a comprehensive future vision for the Four Mile Run Valley and specific strategies to achieve that vision. Recommendations related to this road segment included reconfiguring the roadway to provide two lanes in each direction with a shared center turn lane while maximizing on-street parallel parking on both sides of the street and improving crosswalks and bicycle crossings at key intersection.
George Mason Drive Multimodal Transportation Study
- The George Mason Drive Multimodal Transportation study (2023) proposed traffic and crossing safety improvement at intersection of S. George Mason Drive and S. Four Mile Run Drive. The plan proposed converting the outside westbound lane of S. Four Mile Run Drive to a right-only lane and removing the merge lane on westbound S. Four Mile Run Drive Major to improve traffic and crossing safety.