Posted on 11/28/2013 3:46:04 PM PST by DeaconBenjamin
Fairfax County residents have watched cranes and bulldozers rip up roads and disrupt commutes for the dramatic aerial structures that will carry Metro’s newest rail line through Tysons Corner and into Reston.
Now that the Silver Line is about to open, many potential riders have one simple question: Where do we park?
The answer: You probably don’t.
Fairfax officials did not include parking garages at the four Silver Line stations in Tysons.
That decision has been cheered by “smart growth” advocates, but residents are concerned that their streets will become de facto Metro parking lots. And some potential Silver Line riders — accustomed to driving to Metro stations to board their trains — wonder how they’ll get to the new rail line if they can’t drive.
“The plan did not originally include parking because there were advocates that claimed that having parking garages would draw cars into Tysons,” Fairfax County Supervisor John W. Foust (D-Dranesville) said. “In my opinion, those cars are coming anyway, and they’re going to be driving around looking for a place to park.”
Persuading commuters accustomed to driving to a Metro station to hop on a bus or a train is likely to be a hard sell.
The first phase of the $5.6 billion rail extension, expected to open for passenger service early next year, has stops in McLean, Tysons Corner, Greensboro and Spring Hill. A fifth station, Wiehle Avenue, in Reston, will have an underground parking garage with 2,300 spaces.
Surveys were done in 2011 as part of a study of how people get to and from Metro. About 73 percent of respondents said they drove to a station. About 23 percent said they walked or took a bus.
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Oh, I see, it was just the parking nazis in Tyson's Corner who didn't want folks driving into their fair city. Sounds like Cambridge MA.
Except there IS no “Tysons Corner” government. It just part of Fairfax County. The same Fairfax County that built a multi-billion-dollar “Government Center” known to all as the Taj Mahal, with it’s mahogany and Italian Marble trim, etc.
The government center is a disgrace ... for taxpayers. Bloated, redundant administrators living off the fat of taxpayers.
Is it just me, or are you also experiencing the continuing, putrid stench of Gerry Connolly?
Are you sure the idea isn't to get the deprived inner city people and youts into Tyson's Corner? They don't need parking spaces in Tyson's Corner to take advantage of the "better" life. Therefore, they didn't put in many parking spaces when they planned it out.
Aren't we perhaps looking at this backwards?
Oh how I wish Kieth Fimian could have kicked Connolly out.
I don’t know that that was the intention, but it will be the consequence.
They’ll have a straight shot to Tyson’s and Leesburg.
No kidding.
Oooh you’re bad! True, but bad!
Yes! I'm sure the upscale shoppers of Tyson's Corner Galleria will enjoy hobnobbing with the feral yutes. Soon, Tyson's Corner will come to resemble it's poorer sister, the erstwhile glamorous "Fashion Center" at Pentagon City - an earlier victim of DC's public rail system.
it’s = its
From Wash Post six years ago, which I saved:
"Connolly also represents another constituency, one he serves from a 12th-floor office overlooking Route 7 in Tysons Corner, where he is vice president of community relations for Science Applications International Corp."
"The San Diego-based research and engineering company, which does billions of dollars of work for the nation's defense, intelligence and homeland security agencies, is the Washington area's fourth-largest private employer with 16,000 workers, 3,500 of them in a four-building complex in Tysons."
He never made public how much he was paid by SAIC for his "services." No conflict of interest there, no sir-ee. Oddly enuf, this info does not appear in his Wikipedia article.
I guess it’s better than Petersburg to Va Beach but not much.
Not anymore. I moved out to Frederick County. I’ve got two counties, a mountain, and river between us and the cesspool that Fairfax has become. . .
You said it. The “Fashion Centre” (note the pretentious spelling) is only tolerable on weekdays when it first opens. I believe the shoplifting issues there are a nightmare. I think that is why the Nordstrom there has less merchandise than the one out at Tysons, which compared Nordstrom in other locations, it not all that.
Agenda 21?
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