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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — North Beauregard Street between Sanger Avenue and Morgan Street will close intermittently from Tuesday through Thursday to allow deliveries for the Holmes Run Trail repairs.
The closures will run from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day, with each full closure expected to last 10 to 15 minutes. Flaggers will direct traffic in between.
The city says the closures are needed to move oversized delivery vehicles and unload crane equipment and large concrete pieces for a new box culvert being built across Holmes Run.
Part of a repair effort now in its eighth year
The work is the last piece of a project that began with flood damage in 2018 and 2019.
A section of trail in Dora Kelley Park closed in July 2018 after flooding eroded the ground beneath the trail and boardwalk. A year later, historic flooding across the region damaged three more sections, including two bridges, and those closed as well.
The city has since repaired and reopened three of the four damaged sites. A bridge at 4600 Duke Street reopened in August 2023. Sites at the Morgan Street cul-de-sac and North Ripley Street were finished in September 2025.
Dora Kelley Park, the first section to close, is the last still under construction. Crews began work there in August 2025, and the city expects substantial completion this fall — eight years after the trail closed.
That section proved the most complicated. The city notes that the flooding undermined the trail base and the structural integrity of two bridges, requiring study of how the stream behaves before deciding how to rebuild. A $5 million grant from the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority, awarded in spring 2022, funds a raised pedestrian and bicycle bridge at the site.
Total approved funding for the repairs is $12.2 million — $7.2 million from the city's capital improvement program and the NVTA grant.
Detour routes remain posted for trail users. More information is available on the city's project page.
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