Traffic/Pedestrian Safety Recommendations
in the Williamsburg Neighborhood Conservaton Plan

12. Install additional speed limit signs and increase police surveillance, especially along Little Falls Road, Williamsburg Boulevard, Sycamore Street, Lexington Street and Powhatan Street.

13. Increase police surveillance and enforcement of speed limits on 36th and Somerset Streets from Powhatan to Williamsburg Boulevard when students are driving to and from Bishop O'Connell High School.

14. Install a landscaped median strip along Little Falls Road from Kensington Street to the Williamsburg traffic circle, keep Little Falls a two-lane road, and add parking lanes.

15. Realign the roadway from John Marshall Drive to Ohio Street and install curb and gutter on the north side of the street.

16. Modify county policy to permit greater use of multi-way stop signs as a neighborhood traffic control measure.

17. Install four-way stop signs on Little Falls Road at Lexington Street and Ohio Street, at Lexington and 27th Streets, and at John Marshall Drive and 27th Street

18. Evaluate existing school zone signs on the approaches to Nottingham Elementary School, Tuckahoe Elementary School and Bishop O'Connell High School and replace them if more effective signs are available.

19. Increase police surveillance and enforcement of the 25 mph speed limit when children are going to and from school.

20. Evaluate the need for more traffic signs and install additional signs where appropriate. Work with property owners and county staff to eliminate obstructions obscuring signs from view.

21. Identify specific intersections where poor visibility is a problem and work with property owners and county staff to eliminate hazardous obstructions.

22. Increase police surveillance and enforcement of full stops at stop signs and yield signs at the traffic circle.

23. Install at-grade crosswalks or textured pavement on Little Falls Road, Williamsburg Boulevard, and Powhatan Street at the traffic circle.

24. Review the timing of lights at Sycamore Street and the traffic circle periodically to make sure pedestrians have enough time to cross safely.

25. Seek ways to educate residents about the necessity to use the walk buttons.

26. Install a textured pavement crosswalk on Williamsburg Boulevard at the entrance to Minor Hill (at the top of the hill just past the traffic circle).

27. Install a textured pavement crosswalk on Powhatan Street at either 35th Street or 36th Street.

28. Install textured pavement crosswalks at intersections where school crossing guards are on duty:

a. Williamsburg Boulevard and Ohio Street
b. Little Falls Road and John Marshall Drive
c. Little Falls Road and Ohio Street
d. Sycamore and 28th Streets

29. Install textured pavement crosswalks on Williamsburg Boulevard at Trinidad Street.

30. Evaluate whether additional crosswalks are needed at other locations on Little Falls Road, Williamsburg Boulevard and Sycamore Street for pedestrian safety. Install additional crosswalks if appropriate.

31. Install signs near crosswalks on major arterials to remind drivers that pedestrians have the right-of-way.32. Install traffic nubs at the following intersections:

a. Little Falls Road and John Marshall Drive
b. Little Falls Road and Ohio Street
c. 27th and Lexington Streets
d. 27th Street and John Marshall Drive

32. Install traffic nubs at the following intersections:

a. Little Falls Road and John Marshall Drive
b. Little Falls Road and Ohio Street
c. 27th and Lexington Streets
d. 27th Street and John Marshall Drive

33. Install a landscaped median and appropriate crosswalks on Sycamore Street from 26th Street to Williamsburg Boulevard.

34. Create zone permit parking around Bishop O'Connell High School where it is supported by residents.

35. Increase police surveillance and enforcement of speed limits, stop signs, and traffic regulations which prohibit interfering with or obstructing the flow of traffic.

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