Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Hard copies of the plan are available for download and review.
The Fairfax County Park Authority has released preliminary plans for the Pohick Stream Valley-Liberty Bell Trail project for public review and download. According to a news release, the Pohick Stream Valley-Liberty Bell Trail project will connect the new Burke VRE Trail and Burke Lake Road with the sidewalk and bicycle lane on Burke Road to the Rolling Road VRE station. The Fairfax County Park Authority hosted a ribbon-cutting for the new trail in June 2012. The release further states that a new pedestrian and bicycle asphalt trail is planned to run within Pohick Stream Valley Park parallel to Pohick Creek. The goal of the new trail is to make the “area suitable for use by a variety of trail users, while also significantly improving …
Monday, June 4, 2012
A photo gallery of the trail's grand opening.
Cyclists traveled from the Burke VRE station to the trail bridge adjacent to the Burke Village II Shopping Center for the inaugural ride along the Pohick Stream Valley-Burke VRE Trail on Saturday, National Trails Day. The Fairfax County Park Authority hosted a ribbon-cutting for the new trail, which was funded in the Fairfax County transportation bond approved in November 2007. The total cost was $814,000. Kala Leggett Quintana, at-large representative to the Fairfax County Park Board, emceed the ribbon-cutting. "This trail was conceived by one of my neighbors many years ago," she told those gathered. "I was there at the conception, the birth and now the completion of this particular project. Its completion shows the benefits of …
Friday, June 1, 2012
The new trail connects the Burke VRE station and Burke Lake Road with existing Park Authority and Burke Conservancy trails in Pohick Stream Valley Park.
The new trail connecting the Burke VRE station with Burke Lake Road and the Burke Village Shopping Center will officially open Saturday, National Trails Day. Bicyclists will meet at the Burke VRE station Saturday at 9:30, and the bike convoy will leave at 9:40 a.m. to arrive in time for brief ribbon-cutting ceremonies. The ribbon-cutting is scheduled for 10 a.m. at the bridge on Burke Road, adjacent to the Burke Village II Shopping Center, 9570 Burke Road. The Fairfax County transportation bond approved in November 2007 included a project in the Pohick Stream Valley Park to build a trail connecting the Burke VRE station with Burke Lake Road and the Burke Village Shopping Center. The project included construction of two sections of asphalt …
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Robert L. Travers
1:15 pm on Tuesday, September 25, 2012
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