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Arlington’s Transportation Capital Program is responsible for building transportation infrastructure projects funded through the Capital Improvement Plan (CIP). While safety is integral into all transportation capital projects to ensure that improvements are proactively addressing the County’s Vision Zero goals, the Vision Zero program recognizes projects that provide significant safety benefits as safety-driven capital projects.
Visit the Arlington County website to see the seventeen safety-driven capital projects that are expected to break ground in 2022.
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School “slow zones” are a new safety tool currently being testing in Arlington. A school slow zone is a permanent 20 mile-per-hour speed limit on a neighborhood street within 600 feet of an access point to a school. New speed limit signs clearly define these slow zones.
Over the last month, Arlington staff added new 20mph speed limit and safety signage around 11 public and 2 private schools. These demonstration projects will test the slow zone policy in a few locations before applying them countywide.
Arlington transportation and police staff will begin monitoring speeds and behavior changes in these areas. We will also collect community feedback in Spring 2022 to learn about your experiences and observations during the demonstrations. We’ll take all of the lessons learned as we finalize our school slow zone guidelines and implement slow zones around more schools in Arlington. Look for updates in future newsletters.
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The Vision Zero Action Plan calls for an annual transportation safety benchmark questionnaire to help the County understand and track how Vision Zero actions have impacted the experiences and perceptions of people traveling in Arlington each year.
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The Vision Zero interdepartmental team will be pushing the feedback form through County listservs, social media channels, postcards, pop-up events, and kiosks at the Central and Columbia Pike library branches. The feedback form will be available in English, Spanish, Arabic, Amharic, Mongolian, and Chinese.
Look out for an email with a link to the feedback form at the end of month. We ask that you please share this opportunity to provide meaningful feedback on transportation safety with everyone that you know. The more people we hear from, the more we will understand where we can expand and improve our Vision Zero program to best meet the needs of the community.
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The comment period on Arlington’s draft Multimodal Engineering Safety Toolbox was open from January 12 through February 15. The Toolbox is a public document that explains the how, why, when, and where of placing engineering safety tools on our streets. The Toolbox is intended to create transparency in the engineering process by communicating outlining the considerations and references that staff follow when designing the County’s transportation network.
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We collected comments through an online feedback form and hosted a virtual public workshop on February 1 (recording and presentation slides available on our website). Through both forums, we received constructive feedback on how to improve the draft of the Toolbox. The Vision Zero team sends a big thank you to all who provided input!
Over the next couple of months, the Vision Zero team will review comments and make changes to the Toolbox. We will publish a summary of the community’s feedback in Spring 2022 and give presentations to various County Commissions to explain how we revised the Toolbox to address community input. At these meetings, we will discuss opportunities for each discipline/subject area to leverage the Toolbox for transportation safety engagement and advocacy. We expect to release the first official version of the Multimodal Engineering Safety Toolbox in Summer 2022.
Share your thoughts on how Arlington should invest in major infrastructure - like transportation projects - for the future. Your input will help inform the proposed 10-year Capital Improvement Plan to be presented in May.
Read the information and share your thoughts now through March 15!
For more information on these and other upcoming quick-build projects, visit the Quick-Build projects.
Beginning on March 1, 2022, all SmarTrip cards purchased before 2012 will no longer be accepted or reloaded at fare vending machines in Metrorail stations, on buses, parking facilities or retail locations.
This is part of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's (WMATA) transition to new and improved faregates and fareboxes at Metrorail stations and on buses. Cards purchased before 2012 have an outdated chip technology that is not compatible with the new faregates and boxes.
To learn more about the transition and to see if you need to replace your card, read this press release from WMATA.
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