Arlington County approved a new building called the Fairview, that will include a new western entrance to the Ballston Metro. Not sure what form this entrance will take, but it would be great if it included one set of stairs instead of three escalators. The advantage being, besides cost, that stairs could accommodate bicycle channels to allow cyclists to bring their bikes in the front door and leave the elevators for people who truly need them.
The other item is that Arlington has plans to build the Washington Boulevard Trail and phase I should begin this spring or summer.
A shared use path will be
constructed on the west side of Washington Boulevard generally between Walter Reed
Drive and Rolfe Street S. The path will pass through Towers Park and connect
the Arlington Boulevard Trail with Columbia Pike.
As one who bikes around there often, this will be a nice improvement.
The 1994 Arlington Bicycle Transportation Plan included 37 proposals for new or improved bicycle facilities. In the intervening [12] years the County has made progress or completed most of those projects and has subsequently added other bikeway proposals to the amended master plan. One project included in the plan, which has not been acted upon is the Route 110 south trail paving and upgrade. In FY2003, Arlington was able to secure a federal CMAQ grant to pay for 80 percent of the work involved to grade, pave, enhance the crossings, and install new signage and landscaping along the trail.
