On February 17 the Prince William Transportation Department briefed the Manassas City Council on plans for a new roundabout at Godwin Drive and Clover Hill Road. The roundabout would replace the current four-way stop with left-turn lanes.
Manassas has painted bike lanes on Godwin Drive and Clover Hill Road leading to the roundabout location. The proposed design would allow extending those lanes on Godwin Drive, where bikers would move into a Shared Use Path close to the roundabout. They could then use pedestrian crosswalks if they wanted to cross Clover Hill Road, and access a Shared Use Path leading to Prince William Parkway.
The roundabout would be near the city/county boundary, north of a proposed diverging diamond interchange where Clover Hill Road meets Prince William Parkway (Route 234). The new diverging diamond interchange would be comparable to one already completed at Balls Ford Road.
The county plans for a Shared Use Path, constructed as part of the diverging diamond interchange, to allow bikers/pedestrians to continue south of Prince William Parkway (Route 234) on Clover Hill Road towards the airport.
The orange lines on the diverging diamong interchange proposal show no connection is planned by the county to any future Shared Use Path parallel to Prince William Parkway. Such a path is in the 2020 Mobility Chapter (see green line below), but no stubs for a future connection appear to be included in the design of the diverging diamond interchange.
The same approach was taken by Prince William Transportation Department when it managed construction of the Brentsville interchange. No provision was made there for the planned bike/pedestrian network parallel to Prince William Parkway.
