A group from Pennsylvania’s acclaimed King of Prussia mall took a tour around Tysons Corner to see the transformation from a suburban retail center, to commercial job center, to the proposed full fledged city. Their interesting impressions as outsiders. (KingofPrussiaBlog)
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Fairfax County has long been ignored by Richmond for transportation funding. What projects we do get are either tolled (HOT lanes) or diverted to regions and projects that the majority of NOVA are against (Outer Beltway, Gainsville Overpass System). All the while the state GOP is finding plenty of money to help give a free road to Freight Corporations, $1.4 billion for a road that will carry 10,000 people. Or how about the Coalfields Expressway? Another Billion down the drain. Oh sorry, that is all tangential, please tell us how there is no money for the 1.4 million residents of NOVA again. Contact your delegates and tell them that if they want to be conservative they should start acting like it atleast and stop throwing money down the drain to pet projects with no users; (WaPo)
– (R) Joe T. May (Head of the Transportation Committee) – From Loudoun/Clarke County… as head of the state transportation committee he has determined the best way to address NOVAs serious transportation problem is to build a north-south highway in western Loudoun. You know, for all those people who live in Manassas and work in Middleburg. Strange that a billion dollar project would go to his district… just a coincidence I am sure.
Contact your delegate to tell them we will vote them out if our taxes continue to be spent elsewhere
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Fairfax considers more school projects for 2013-2018 due to over crowding in existing districts. The cost could be drastically improved in urban regions (the areas with the largest growth over the past 10 years in enrollment) if the typical model of school construction was reconsidered. (WTOP)
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Urbanism Concept of the Day
Have a happy and safe holiday.