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By DEBORAH FITTS
ThncsNewspapers SUIT Writer
After more than a year in the formulation, a radical plan to institute "traffic calming” along U.S. 50 was publicly released earlier this month by a grassroots citizens group, setting out. measures to slow commuter traffic through southern Loudoun County — and, in a fashion unprecedented in the U.S., help to preserve its rural and historic landscape.
"This is not just a road issue,” asserted Supervisor Jim Burton (IMercer). "Transportation and land use issues are so closely intertwined that this is not only traffic calming — it's development calming.”
The plan, laid out in two bound vplumes of maps, charts, photos and text, follows the principal tenet of traffic calming: that it be "self-enforcing.” I.t details dozens of obstacles to slow traffic in Aldie, Middleburg and Upperville, from differing pavement textures to .tree-lined medians and rptaries, speed humps, and sidewalk "bulbs" that narrow the road at intersections.
* In between, the speed limit on U.S. 50 would be reduced from 55 to 50, wayside pulloffs would lure the passer-by to admire the landscape, and grass and shrubs would grow right up to the edge of the pavement.
"This is creative, it’s innovative, and it's the way of the future," said Susan Van Wagoner of Middleburg, chairman of the 15-member steering committee of the Route 50 Corridor Coalition. "We feel this plan is offering the state of Virginia and (xiudoun and Fauquier counties the opportunity to be leaders in this field. Otherwise they can follow along."
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