The Town of Herndon is considering a number of changes to Bennett Street intended to make walking and cycling around the local high school safer.
Mike Shindledecker, the town’s transportation engineer, unveiled a preferred concept at a community meeting in the Herndon High School cafeteria on Wednesday (May 13) that would narrow the four-lane road to one travel lane in each direction.
Bennett Street, an approximately 0.2-mile-long road that extends from Dranesville Road to Kingstream Circle, would be reconfigured with a central two-way left-turn lane, a designated left-turn lane for eastbound drivers going into the school’s west entrance, and a pull-out area for Fairfax Connector buses…