The Fairfax County Department of Transportation has come up with a “preferred option” for managing traffic congestion and improving access for pedestrians and bicyclists on Gallows Road. The proposal calls for narrowing travel lanes and adding landscape buffers and wide sidewalks in Annandale.
The entire Gallows Road multimodal transportation project, between Leesburg Pike in Tysons and Columbia Pike in Annandale, isn’t expected to be completed until 2045, said transportation planner Nanditha Paradkar at a July 17 community meeting on the southern segment of Gallows.
FCDOT staff presented three alternatives for the southern segment of the Gallows Road corridor last November – a vehicle-focused option, a transit-focused option, and an option focusing on active transportation…