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32-586: Arlington Boulevard serves to bisect Arlington County into its northern and southern sections in popular parlance and for designation of street directional affixes according to the county's street-naming system . Arlington Boulevard begins in the east on Columbia Island in Washington, D.C. , at the traffic circle between the Arlington Memorial Bridge and Memorial Drive . It carries northbound traffic across Boundary Channel into Virginia, where it has

64-618: A partial interchange with Interstate 66 and the George Washington Memorial Parkway at the foot of the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge . At the interchange, Arlington Boulevard becomes a divided highway and assumes the U.S. Route 50 designation. It proceeds westward soon turning south along the edge of Fort Myer , a U.S. Army post. Most of the junctions in this section are grade-separated interchanges . At an interchange with Washington Boulevard ( VA 27 ),

96-516: A policy of adding to the street grid when feasible as part of new development—for example, connections for Quinn Street and Troy Street were recently added to the Master Transportation Plan between Wilson and Clarendon Boulevards. Arlington Boulevard ( U.S. Route 50 ) bisects Arlington County into northern and southern sections. The dividing line continues through Joint Base Myer–Henderson Hall even as Arlington Boulevard bypasses it to

128-657: A proposal for the trail was approved by the County Board and later that year Arlington County was one of 12 urban areas to receive a grant from the Department of the Interior as a demonstration of urban trails, the first such grants ever given. The Four Mile Run Trail was the first of these trails built, making it the nation's first shared use path built with federal funds. Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall had created

160-613: A separate route outside of the park, thus reducing the amount of joined trail. In 2009, a trail extension was completed near Shirlington that not only linked the end of the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Trail with the Four Mile Run Trail, but also allowed trail users to pass under the Shirley Highway ( Interstate 395 ) and W. Glebe Road without having to ride on-street in Shirlington and Alexandria . An underpass

192-544: A trail system along Four Mile Run. He saw it as part of a network of trails - including those along Lubber Run, Long Branch and from the Claremont School - stretching from Falls Church to Route 1 on land the county already controlled. The trail could not connect to the George Washington Parkway because the railroad trestle then over Four Mile Run near Potomac yard left no room between the supports. In early 1966

224-718: Is a 7-mile long, paved shared use path in Arlington County and Falls Church . It runs along Four Mile Run from Benjamin Banneker Park in Falls Church to the Mount Vernon Trail near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport , where Four Mile Run empties into the Potomac River . The trail runs roughly parallel to parts of the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Trail as it follows Four Mile Run, sometimes on

256-595: Is a set of discontinuous trails and on-road bike routes, 11 miles in length, on both sides of Arlington Boulevard. The trail runs from N. Rhodes Street in Arlington County to Fairview Park Drive in Falls Church. It has been proposed that the trail be extended to Pickets Road in Fairfax Virginia. The trail opened on November 18, 1974, in conjunction with preferential bus lanes, as a 1.7 mile long, paved trail between

288-522: Is immediately north of Arlington Boulevard and 1st Street South is immediately south of it. North–south streets are named and alphabetized (through first letter only) starting at the Potomac River in the east. Progressing westward, the alphabetizing sequence is: Arlington's local numbered and named streets are not through streets, except for a few streets in North Arlington, and thus each number or name can appear multiple times at multiple locations in

320-552: Is or once was laid out on a continuous rectilinear grid plan, which in many parts of the County it is not (although very few parts of the county are laid out using the cul-de-sac type development which is more common in the outer Washington, DC suburbs). Originally, the various communities in the county had independent street-naming conventions. However, when county officials asked the United States Postal Service to place

352-512: The Four Mile Run Trail and North Pershing Drive in Arlington. It was Arlington's 2nd Trail. By 1976, the trail had been extended west with another 2.3 miles. In May 1979, the trail was extended east from its endpoint at North Pershing, around Fort Myer to Arlington Memorial Bridge . In 2014, a new segment was built from N. Pershing to Rolfe street on the east side of Arlington Boulevard, and

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384-644: The Washington & Old Dominion (W&OD) right-of-way). In 1980, as part of the construction of seven bridges across Four Mile Run - for Route 1, the Potomac Yard railroad, the main rail line and the George Washington Parkway - the Army Corps of Engineers built a section of the Four Mile Run Trail beneath the bridges from Route 1 to the Mount Vernon Trail. Later that spring, the gap between the new section and I-95

416-513: The bike trail ended at Columbia Pike, and north to N. Van Buren Street in the Falls Church section of Benjamin Banneker Park. By 1971, most sections of the trail were paved, but it still had many low-water crossings and cinder-surfaced sections. By 1976, it was extended to Shirlington. At Shirlington, it crossed I-95 on the Shirlington Overpass which had been opened in 1972. By 1977 it was extended west of Broad Street in Falls Church (along

448-418: The circle as Lee Highway concurrent with US 29, also concurs with US 50 on Arlington Boulevard for less than 1/3 mile before turning south onto Pickett Road. Arlington Boulevard has a shorter history than many other major arterial roads in the region and was only built in the first half of the 20th century in several stages beginning in the west and progressing east. The entire route was complete in 1938 with

480-452: The county but always according to the grid. For example, there are several 12th Streets South or North Kensington Streets in various areas of the county. In cases where more names are needed to avoid confusion in areas of denser street construction, numbered (east–west) streets are first designated "street", then "road," then "place," and in one instance, "avenue". For example, 37th Street North, 37th Road North, and 37th Place North are all in

512-519: The entire county in a single "Arlington, Virginia" postal area, the USPS refused to do so until the county had a unified addressing system , which the county developed in 1932. For that reason, and also because Arlington contains a number of locations that interrupt the road grid network (including military facilities, parks, golf courses, and limited-access highways), it is common for streets to terminate and continue later on in another location. Arlington now has

544-528: The final section around Fort Myer. The road was originally called Lee Boulevard but, with Lee Highway being another major route in Northern Virginia, the name was changed to Arlington Boulevard in the early 1950s. Between 1935 and 1937, the US 50 designation was attached to the road even though it had yet to be completed past Glebe Road , then VA 9 . Before that, the road was VA 236 , a number now assigned to

576-408: The intersecting (or implied intersections of) named streets with each letter/syllable combination representing 100 address numbers. The chart below shows the block numbers on east–west streets. Full-Lot houses often skip 4 numbers in between houses, and town homes generally skip two; while the opposite side of the street is offset by one number, so that one side can be even, and one odd. Addresses on

608-537: The naming and numbering system. Named streets with the designation "road," "pike," or "highway" instead of "street" usually predate the system and follow early winding routes. "Boulevards" and "drives" are generally major thoroughfares with historic names. Boulevards usually run east–west and drives, which were constructed on former trolley lines, run north–south but are designated as north and south only when they appear on both sides of Arlington Boulevard. Notable exceptions include: Address numbers can be determined from

640-625: The nearby Little River Turnpike . The completed Arlington Boulevard's eastern terminus was originally the crossing of the George Washington Memorial Parkway on Columbia Island in the District of Columbia. With the completion of the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge in 1964, Arlington Boulevard's terminus was moved to its present location. In 1973, state and county officials announced plans to add two bus lanes (now known as

672-432: The north, resulting in streets in southern parts of Rosslyn being labeled north even though they are south of the physical boulevard at that location. East–west streets are designated by an ordinal number followed by a designation as either a street, road, place, or avenue, and a north or south designation. The numbers begin on either side of Arlington Boulevard and increase moving away from it. Therefore, 1st Street North

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704-436: The numbers or names of intersecting streets. Addresses on north–south routes, including exceptions from the numbering and naming system, follow the numbers of intersecting (or implied intersections of) numbered streets. For example, 2005 South Glebe Road would lie just beyond the intersection of South Glebe Road and 20th Street South. Addresses on east–west, including exceptions from the numbering and naming system, are based on

736-451: The old section over the same stretch was widened and extended under 10th Street, closing a gap in the trail. In 2017, the short section from Wainwright Road to Washington Boulevard was repaved as part of a Washington Gas Pipeline Replacement Project. In January 2020 the Gables apartment community, which had been under construction since 2017, opened and one of the street space improvements included

768-464: The other side of the stream. The trail opened on September 4, 1967 as a four-mile, unpaved trail between Roosevelt Street and the Columbia Pike. The trail was the brainchild of Arlington County Board member Thomas Richards, who had been elected in 1964. When he was snowed in at New York's LaGuardia Airport shortly after being elected he used the time, and a AAA road map of Arlington, to sketch out

800-471: The program in hopes that it would build support for trails legislation he was supporting. That legislation later became the National Trail System Act of 1968 . The trail was built adjacent to an existing hiking trail and the still extant W&OD railroad tracks. In the following years, the trail was paved and expanded. By mid-1968, the trail had been extended south to Walter Reed Drive, though

832-550: The road turns west again and continues in that direction for the remainder of its length. Arlington Boulevard has interchanges with VA 120 (Glebe Road) in Arlington County and VA 7 ( Leesburg Pike )/ VA 338 (Hillwood Avenue)/ SR 613 ( Wilson Boulevard ) at Seven Corners and I-495 (Capital Beltway) in Fairfax County. It terminates just inside Fairfax City at a traffic circle with US 29 ( Lee Highway and Fairfax Boulevard) and Old Lee Highway. VA 237 , which arrives at

864-682: The rush hour restrictions were removed from the service lanes altogether. This was done over the objections of the Arlington County Board, but with the endorsement of the Fairfax County Board and the Arlington County Manager. In the 1980s, the section of Arlington Boulevard without service lanes between Glen Carlin Road (now Manchester Road) and Four Mile Run was widened from four lanes to six lanes. The Arlington Boulevard Trail

896-406: The same general area. Named (north–south) local streets follow rules regarding initial letter and syllable number but there can be multiple street names with the same initial letter number of syllables, almost all ending with "street". For example, North Kenilworth Street, North Kensington Street, and North Kentucky Street are all in the same area. Major arteries or historical roads are exempt from

928-508: The service lanes) to the four car lanes on the section between Seven Corners and Pershing Drive (except for about half a mile west of Four Mile Run). Work on that project completed in November 1974. In 1978 the service lanes, which had been for buses and right turning cars only during rush hour, were opened up to car pool vehicles with 4 or more passengers. In 1984, as traffic moved over to I-66 and bus routes were re-configured to feed into Metrorail,

960-833: The south and west (left) sides of the streets are even-numbered. Below is a complete list of named (north–south) streets within the system. This list includes only those streets which appear as part of the naming system, excluding historical exceptions, and major boulevards or drives. Columbus Culpepper Dumbarton Grove Jefferson King Kenwood Lynn Poe Pollard Quinn Quincy River Rixey Rockingham Roosevelt Smythe Toronto Trinidad Tuckahoe Upland Utah Wise Woodley Woodrow Woodstock Westmoreland Winchester Wyoming Four Mile Run Trail The Four Mile Run Trail

992-641: Was a widening of the ~500 feet of trail between Rolfe and Rhodes street from 5 feet to 10 feet with 5 feet of green space. Arlington County, Virginia, street-naming system This article details the street-naming system of Arlington County , Virginia in the United States . Although the streets of Arlington County are not laid out on a grid plan , its local streets follow sequential numbered or alphabetic patterns that are both rational and provide address numbering information. A numbered and alphabetical street-naming scheme suggests that Arlington

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1024-448: Was opened. In 1981-82, the section of trail near Brandymore Castle in Arlington was rebuilt in conjunction with the construction of I-66. The section of trail from the point where Four Mile Run emerges from under I-66 in Arlington County to the bridge over Four Mile Run in Banneker Park then became part of both trails. In the future, Arlington County would like to reroute the W&;OD Trail to

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