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U.S. Department
of Transportation
Federal Highway
Administration

Associate Administrator
John Baxter
202-366-9494
john.baxter@dot.gov
www.fhwa.dot.gov/flh/

Federal Lands Highway
provides planning,
design, and engineering
services to support the
highways and bridges
that provide access to
and within federally
owned lands.

Federal Lands Divisions

Eastern
Federal Lands

Eastern Federal Lands

Division Engineer
Melisa Ridenour
703-404-6201
melisa.ridenour@fhwa.
dot.gov
www.efl.fhwa.dot.gov

September 2007
See FLH website for sources

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Fact Sheet

 

Virginia FLHP

VA FLHP road miles:1,819
Funding Authorized FY 98 – 07: $240,590,000
Federal land acreage as percentage of total state area: 8.3,%*
VA population:7,642,884

  • National Park Service (32 units)

  • U.S. Forest Service (2)

  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (7)

  • This percentage includes Federal lands that are not part of the FLHP core program and not depicted on the map

Virginia State

A photo of the George Washington Memorial. The Federal Lands Highway Program in Virginia. The George Washington Memorial Parkway (GWMP) is a linear park operated by the National Park Service (NPS) that runs along the Potomac River through Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. The GWMP is designated an All-American Road and connects historic sites from Mt. Vernon to the Great Falls of the Potomac. It includes four separate roadway segments-the George Washington Memorial Parkway, the Mt. Vernon Memorial Highway, the Clara Barton Parkway and the Spout Run Parkway-totaling 38.3 miles. The GWMP is a major commuter road that accommodates as many as 80,000 vehicles/day.

Eastern Federal Lands is rehabilitating the GWMP from Interstate 395 to the Columbia Island Marina entrance in Arlington County,Virginia and the District of Columbia. This work will include the replacement of the Humpback Bridge, correction of the vertical profile and sight distance deficiencies of the existing bridge (i.e. flattening the grades of the bridge approaches), construction of an acceleration lane, asphalt pavement removal and reconstruction through the project limits, realignment of portions of the Mount Vernon Trail, and construction of pedestrian underpasses.


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