Politics & Government
Old Town Traffic Study Planned for Fairfax City
Council to consider funding from Transportation Tax Fund dollars Tuesday night.
It may be time for a new direction in downtown traffic management. The city council will consider Tuesday whether to spend $14,841 for an Old Town Traffic Study.
The Fairfax City Council meets at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the council chambers, City Hall Annex, 10455 Armstrong Street. See the complete agenda.
The Old Town Traffic Study would evaluate the city roads for:
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- overall network operational performance measures,
- intersection capacity,
- traffic safety,
- business access,
- emergency vehicle access,
- parking,
- and pedestrian/bicycle accessibility.
The study will only evaluate existing conditions, according to a memo from City Manager Robert Sisson to council. A second phase of the study will be financed and performed separately, if necessary.
The study will be performed by transportation engineering consultants Sabra, Wang and Associated and financed from $14,841 from the Transportation Tax Fund. See all the details of the funding request.
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The Connection wrote in August that the city switched to two-way streets in the downtown district eight years ago. “We never did an analysis of how well it’s worked,” Mayor Scott Silverthorne told the paper.
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