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Gloucester County staff seeks TAP pre-application for walkway from Tyndall's Point Park to Gloucester Point Beach
Summary
County staff asked the Board to support a pre-application to VDOT's Transportation Alternatives Program for an approximately 1,900-foot, 8-foot-wide pedestrian and bicycle connector under the Coleman Bridge; board members raised cost, timing and priority concerns and no formal action was taken.
Brian Lewis, county staff, asked the Gloucester County Board of Supervisors to support a pre-application to the Virginia Department of Transportation's (VDOT) Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) for a pedestrian-and-bicycle connector from Tyndall's Point Park to Gloucester Point Beach. "The project wills will begin at Tyndall's Point Park, continuing down the bluff adjacent to Coleman Bridge. Then it will turn underneath the Coleman Bridge to the parking lot at Great Road across from Gloucester Point Beach, which just as an FYI, I'm sure you all know is the only public beach in the county," Lewis said.
The proposed trail is roughly 1,900 feet long and 8 feet wide, with an observation deck. Lewis told the board the project is included in the county's five-year capital improvement plan for fiscal year 2028 and that the TAP grant would "cover 80% of the project cost up…
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