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Bike Room at Stringfellow Park & Ride Photos

Yesterday we attended the Stringfellow Park & Ride ribbon-cutting ceremony. The facility was recently expanded to include the county's second secure bike room. We were able to tour the facility and check out the new racks. There's a row of inverted U racks and a row of 2-Tier racks, all located inside a covered bike cage accessed by a key fob, which is also usable at the Wiehe-Reston East bike room.

As far as we know, this is the first installation of the 2-Tier racks in the county. Using the racks, made by Dero, will take some practice. To park in the upper rack, a cyclist must first pull the rack out and down, lift the bike into the rack, attach the spring-loaded wheel holder to the front wheel, lift up the rack and bike and roll back into place. You can then squeeze between the racks and place a U-lock around the frame. Most people will use the U-racks and the lower tier racks but the upper racks add capacity when those are full.

Here's a video showing the process:




Expansion Highlights

• Approximately 300 additional parking spaces.
• Three additional bus bays.
• A Connector transit store
• Improved pedestrian and bike facilities, including a secure bike room.
• Solar panel with net metering for electric service.
• 9 biofilters for Low Impact Development (LID) features.

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New Bike Room at Stringfellow Park & Ride

Fairfax County is holding a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the completion of the Stringfellow Road Park-and-Ride expansion. The event will take place on Thursday, June 15, 2016, at 1 p.m., at 4920 Stringfellow Road, Centreville. The expansion includes new U-racks and a secure bike room.

New Stringfellow Park & Ride Bike Room and Racks

As all Park and Ride lots are built or expanded, bike parking and bike rooms are now part of the standard design. This is great news for cyclists and will be especially important at the Stringfellow site when the I-66 Parallel Trail is completed and if Metro is extended along I-66 in the future.

Bike access to the Stringfellow lot is adequate, with a 10 foot trail on the east side, wide outside lanes for on-road cyclists, and the Bobann trail that runs parallel to I-66 on the south side from Stringfellow Road to Wharton Lane.

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