Fairfax County transportation staff are developing plans to fill in sidewalk gaps along a neighborhood road just outside the Town of Herndon.
Details of the Crestview Drive Walkway project will be shared with the public for the first time at a community meeting next Wednesday (May 7) at 6 p.m. in the Clearview Elementary School cafeteria (12635 Builders Road).
Hosted by the Fairfax County Department of Transportation (FCDOT) and Dranesville District Supervisor Jimmy Bierman, the meeting will include an open house, a presentation at 7 p.m. and a question-and-answer session.
“The Crestview Drive Walkway seeks to complete missing walkway segments from Ferris Avenue to Builders Road,” FCDOT said in a press release. “The project also includes new curb and gutter on the western side of Crestview Drive, crosswalks and pedestrian signals, an 8′ wide pedestrian refuge island and ADA ramps.”
Staff are currently just over halfway through the process of designing the planned walkway and other pedestrian improvements, according to a schedule on FCDOT’s project page.
The county anticipates commencing any land acquisitions and utility relocations this December, though construction isn’t scheduled to begin until March 2027.
According to FCDOT, the walkway project is being locally funded with revenue from the county’s commercial and industrial property taxes.
“The total estimated cost for the project is $1.55 million,” FCDOT said to FFXnow.
To the south, the Town of Herndon has been studying whether to add a signal at Crestview Drive’s intersection with Sterling Road as part of a substantial reconfiguration of that street from Elden Street to Herndon Parkway.
The Sterling Road multi-modal project was put on hold in late 2023 due to pandemic-related delays and a need to find additional funding, prompting the town to add a road diet as an interim safety measure.
The project is still included in the town’s proposed capital improvement program for fiscal years 2026 through 2031, which estimates a total cost of $7.8 million. Design and engineering work aren’t expected to begin until fiscal year 2027, which will start on July 1, 2026.
