Fairfax City has received funding for a study to identify potential safety improvements along heavily used but crash-prone Pickett Road.
The city was awarded $80,000 for the planned roadway safety audit by the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB), which approved a total of $980,000 in grants last month for 12 different local transportation consulting projects in Virginia and Maryland.
The Pickett Road audit funding came from a Regional Roadway Safety Program that the TPB established in 2020 to support planning and preliminary design work, educational campaigns, studies and other efforts to improve road safety. Studies of Mount Vernon Avenue in Alexandria and Prince William County’s Maplewood neighborhood also secured funding from the program…