Stranded semi-trucks, sent astray by errant GPS systems, have fouled up a tiny 1940s-era neighborhood tucked between South King’s Highway and Route 1 in Alexandria, leaving Fairfax County and the state to find a fix for fallible technology. Several times a month, tractor-trailers and other enormous vehicles miss a tricky turn from North King’s Highway onto traffic-heavy Route 1, home to mega-destinations like Target, Office Depot and Lowe’s. Instead, the vehicles wind up on South King’s Highway, neighborhood resident Edward Walker recently told the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. From there, GPS technology sends the truckers on a shortcut back to Route 1 – on narrow, steep Pickett and Franklin streets, where the trucks and buses simply can’t fit.

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