Coming Soon

Stringfellow Road Widening

From Fair Lakes Boulevard to Route 50 in Fairfax County

Area Map

Stringfellow Road Project Map

Project at a Glance

Lengths and Limits
Fair Lakes Boulevard
to Route 50

Locality
Fairfax

District
Northern Virginia

Contact

Zamir Mirza
703-259-1794

Bud Siegel, P.E.
703-259-2118

What's Being Done

This project will widen Stringfellow Road from two lanes to four divided lanes with a raised median, from Fair Lakes Boulevard to Route 50. The project will also include:

Five- to six-foot wide sidewalk on the west side of the road
Ten-foot wide shared-use path on the east side
Wide curb lanes in order to accommodate bicyclists

The section from Route 50 to Chantilly High School was already widened to four lanes, but is included within the project limits to ensure conformity to the proposed work, and to add a left turn lane northbound to Route 50. The southbound approach to Route 50 will also be modified to improve the intersection's operation.

The project passes through a densely populated residential corridor, which includes a library, schools, parks and several stream crossings. The corridor also has major utilities including a 24” water main and several large-bore aviation fuel pipelines serving Dulles International Airport's fuel farm.

Project Background

This section of Stringfellow Road connects two principal arterial roads, Route 50 and Route 29, and currently sees severe congestion northbound and southbound during peak periods. This project addresses the need to increase capacity on this section of road due to extensive growth in the corridor and resulting increases in traffic.

Stringfellow Road has been a four-lane divided roadway on the County’s Comprehensive Plan since the early 1970s. The proposed improvements were part of VDOT's Secondary Six-Year Plan for Fairfax County since the 1990s. It was removed from the plan in 2001 due to funding, but was reinitiated in 2004. This project is part of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors 4-year Transportation Plan, with $16 million provided by the November 2004 Bond Referendum, and $21 million provided in the 2007 Bond Referendum.

Stringfellow Road currently carries 23,000 vehicles per day, and is expected to increase to 33,000 in 2034. The section of Stringfellow Road south of Interstate 66 to Route 29 was constructed to four lanes by Fairfax County in the 1990s.

Project Update

The construction equipment staging site adjacent to the Stringfellow Road park and ride lot is for the new interchange project at the intersection of Fair Lakes Parkway and the Fairfax County Parkway.

Stringfellow Road is still on schedule for construction in late 2012. Right-of-way land acquisition is underway and utility relocation will begin in early 2011.