Building new transportation projects can take many years as ideas make their way through competitive processes to decide what gets funded.
One concept in Albemarle County is to create a shared-use pathway to follow along Three Notch’d Road, a route to the west first carved out of the landscape in the 18th century during the colonial period. This idea is in the county’s Comprehensive Plan, as well as the Virginia Outdoors Plan, and the Rivanna Trails Foundation has been leading the charge to make it a reality.
“We see the Three Notched Trail being a part of a larger Mountains-to-Sea Trail, connecting the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Chesapeake Bay,” reads the RTF’s website on the concept…