The Bailey’s Crossroads community is home to a large immigrant population where many residents rely on walking, biking, and using the bus to get to work and their daily activities. Yet, the main arterial roads (Leesburg Pike & Columbia Pike) are unsafe because of missing sidewalks, few safe crossing options, bus stops without crosswalks, and heavy high-speed traffic.
The Coalition for Smarter Growth and CASA are partnering on the Safe Streets for Bailey’s Crossroads campaign to engage and organize the local community in advocating and winning safer streets and improved access to walking, biking, and accessing transit and services. Also helping the campaign are the Fairfax Alliance for Better Bicycling, Fairfax Families for Safe Streets, and other local community activists. The groups will seek to work with Fairfax County elected officials and staff, as well as the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), to expedite urgently needed near-term safety fixes, as well as more permanent redesign of Route 7 for improved safety, taking advantage of plans for bus rapid transit in the corridor.
