Free WEBINAR - Federal Highway
Administration
“ContextSensitiveSolutions.org is pleased to present a free webinar on ‘Reshaping
Rural Highways for Livability’ focusing on a regionally-scalled national
demonstration project on US Route 50 in Virginia. The webinar will be held on
Tuesday, January 21st, 2014, at 3:00 PM EDT, and is brought to you by FHWA, in
partnership with the Project for Public Spaces and Sevatec.
This webinar details how Virginia DOT and stakeholders worked together
to balance the role of Route 50 as a major national highway with the reality
that it is also the heart of the rural communities it binds together.
The Rural Route 50 Traffic Calming Plan began in 1994 as a grassroots
effort to protect a scenic and historic section of the Virginia Piedmont known
as the Mosby Heritage Area, where it is the main street for several small
towns. Traffic projections showed increasing demand for the 24-mile corridor
located a mere 45 miles outside of Washington D.C., but an innovative public
process and federal demonstration project funding ultimately produced a plan to
manage and calm traffic rather than simply add capacity.
Today much of the plan has been implemented, including the Gilbert's
Corner project in 2009, a system of four roundabouts to relieve congestion.
Participants will learn about how the Route 50 plan was developed and
implemented and will gain invaluable insights for DOTs and stakeholders seeking
to achieve both mobility and livability in the rural areas.”
Featuring
Susan Van Wagner, Steering
Committee Chair, Route 50 Corridor Coalition
Ian Lockwood, Professional
Engineer (Livable Transportation), AECOM
Jan Vaughan, Northern
Virginia District, VDOT
James Zeller, Northern
Virginia District, VDOT
