Category: Development

As part of our hope to help summarize the changes being proposed by Fairfax County for the Connector service around Tysons we are continuing our look in advance of Monday’s public session about Vienna. If you missed the announcement by Fairfax County, Fairfax County Connector will be holding 2 weeks of public opinion sessions on […]

Public meetings can be a powder keg at times. You never know what the issue de jour will be. However the process is necessary, though painful to watch at times, in order to hammer out areas of a plan that will be unpopular and opposed at the time of implementation. Last night’s meeting on proposed […]

If you missed the announcement by Fairfax County, Fairfax County Connector will be holding 2 weeks of public opinion sessions on the new realignment and routes associated with the opening of the Silver Line Phase 1. The first session will be this Thursday and focus on McLean and Tysons. In an effort to prepare interested […]

Thanks to Delegate Surovell we have annualized numbers for all possible forms of revenue to help fund transportation. By tweaking the numbers within the table (purple highlighted text) one can see the effect it will have on the anticipated $120 billion deficit over the next 20 years (based on the VTrans2035 report). If Virginia wants […]

We posted last night Fairfax County Connector will be holding 2 weeks of public opinion sessions on the new realignment and routes associated with the opening of the Silver Line Phase 1. The first session will be this Thursday and focus on McLean and Tysons. In an effort to prepare interested citizens on the proposals […]

We are currently working on our review of the proposed modifications, additions, and in the case of 6 redundant routes, removals of bus service in store for the opening of the Silver Line later this year. For those of you not aware, the public will have 6 opportunities to provide comments to Fairfax County on […]

The monthly report for 495 Express Lane usage released two weeks ago showed that more users are learning about the benefits of using the “HOT” lanes and in fact usage is going up. So it could be interesting to track public opinion of the project along with usage to see if hearts and minds are […]

It was 14 degrees last night in Tysons with 20 mile per hour wind gusts that made walking 1 block seem like corporal punishment. That didn’t stop the construction crew in charge of installing the walkway connection over Route 123. The massive wind tunnel that is this corridor must have made conditions difficult, especially when […]

Nothing makes my head hurt more than when a bus tries to do the job of a train. This is where people who complain about cheap access to transit usually start calling me names, but sadly it is not good transit planning to provide a parallel system just for the sake of it costing less […]