Fairfax County DOT outlines multimodal analysis for Franconia–Springfield, flags crash hot spots and bike/ped gaps

Tom Burke, a transportation planner with the Fairfax County Department of Transportation, presented the department's multimodal analysis approach for the Franconia–Springfield area plan and asked advisory‑group members to weigh tradeoffs between vehicle delay and pedestrian and bicycle comfort as the county refines land‑use recommendations.

Burke said the transportation analysis will examine cars, transit, walking and bicycling and will compare the current comprehensive‑plan land use with alternative, advisory‑group‑driven preferred scenarios. "We wanna make sure that cars and trucks... are moving, you know, flowing sufficiently, but we also wanna make sure that we're providing adequate multimodal options," Burke told the group.

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