Belvoir's Pence Gate to Close Sunday Night for Six Weeks

FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA -- Belvoir's Pence Gate off Route 1, the gate nearest to the Fort Belvoir Community Hospital, closes at 9 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 2, for six weeks for the continued upgrading and construction on the Route 1 Corridor, Mount Vernon District Supervisor Dan Storck said in an update sent to constituents this week.

Route 1 construction is part of VDOT's overall $180 million project to widen 3.5 miles of Route 1 from four lanes to six lanes between Telegraph Road and Mount Vernon Memorial Highway. The roads will include left and right turn lanes at intersections and connecting roadways, and a provision for a multi-use trail, pedestrian sidewalk and on-road bicycle accommodations.

More information about the Route 1 Widening Project is available here. Also see a map (below) detailing Gate Alternatives for use during the closure. Pence Gate Q & A

Here's more information about the traffic advisory, from Fort Belvoir:

Pence Gate is the Belvoir’s access control point closest to the traffic circle, Fort Belvoir Community Hospital, the Community Center and Fisher House.

Drivers coming to Belvoir from the south may notice extra traffic at Tulley Gate, the gate closest to Fairfax County Parkway on Route 1, as Tulley becomes the 24-hour access point during Pence’s closure.

To avoid Tulley, from Route 1, northbound drivers can turn left onto Telegraph Road, south of Belvoir’s Davison Army Airfield. Telegraph Road leads to the Fairfax County Parkway and KingmanGate. Telegraph continues over Fairfax County Parkway to Telegraph Gate, sometimes referred to as Beulah Gate.

Drivers who usually get to Pence Gate using Route 1 south, coming from north of Belvoir, are asked to use Walker Gate, off of George Washington Memorial Highway; or turn right onto Jeff Todd Way, left onto Telegraph Road, which brings drivers to Telegraph Gate.

Drivers who enter Belvoir through Telegraph Gate are then on Belvoir near the golf course.

As Tulley is becoming Belvoir’s temporary 24-hour gate, officials have reconfigured it to have more incoming lanes during morning rush, and fewer outgoing lanes, at the access control point.

Drivers are asked to be patient, expect delays, consider traveling at non-peak times and adjust their routes during Pence Gate’s closure.