After a couple of years of study, the FHA is ready to build a trail along Trap Road south of the Dulles Toll Road to just north of the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts. The 10-foot wide 2700-foot long trail will include a 525-foot-long pedestrian-and-bicycle bridge over the Dulles toll and access roads.
The project will be administered, designed and built by the Federal Highway Administration. The trail will receive additional support from the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), Fairfax County, Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority and Dulles Transit Partners.
Most of the trail will be asphalt, but the bridge will have a concrete deck, said Ellen Vogel, a landscape architect with VDOT.
VDOT officials will seek an easement from the Airports Authority to use the air space over the toll and access roads and to build bridge piers on the medians of those roads.
I've biked to Wolf Trap before, and it's doable, but this will make it much more accessible.
This is the first I've heard of it - sounds like a great excuse to bike out to see a show, if one can handle a late-night ride home. I wonder if the trail will be lit at all? Are most trail users expected to be there in order to attend concerts?
Posted by: M.V. Jantzen | December 08, 2010 at 05:05 PM