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Category: Transportation

Mar 10, 2014 
 

Inspiration Mondays: It’s Not Just DC Lapping Our Walkability

Proposed Concept Implementation in Tysons Score A local Philly blog This Old City, has taken a look at traffic fatalities with relation to location within the city of Philadelphia. The study, which includes data between 2008 and 2012, shows some very telling, and what would be intuitive if not for political overlooking, evidence against high […]
by Navid Roshan-Afshar
Feb 20, 2014 
 

VDOT Holds Meeting On Multi-modal Improvements for Route 7

Before you get to excited, you should know that the proposal by VDOT in the works, and discussed last night, is limited to a spot improvement at the overpass of Route 7 over the Dulles Toll Road (DTR). That being said, this overpass is the single largest between Reston and Tysons, and therefore the improvement, […]
by Navid Roshan-Afshar
Jan 20, 2014 
 

Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project Construction Progress January 19, 2014

The contractor charged with installing and testing the train control and system signaling system is expected to be done in the first weeks of February. At that time MWAA will hand the project over to WMATA. WMATA will do the final testing and certification that is scheduled to take 90 days. After certification the first […]
by Sand Box John
Jan 17, 2014 
 

Silver Line Delay a Debacle in Public Relations and Oversight

This past week we received notice of a final test date being conducted by Bechtel on the long delayed Silver Line Phase 1; the last step prior to hand over to WMATA for remaining testing and operations. The project has been delayed nearly 5 months from its initial schedule, and those disruptions stem from a […]
by Navid Roshan-Afshar
Oct 02, 2013 
 

Tysons Silver Line Metro Parking Under Construction

A couple months ago the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors approved plans by Cityline to provide a temporary paid parking lot for metro at the McLean Silver Line station in Tysons. We’ve watched some early sitework occurring over the past few weeks including some minor building demo, milling of the old asphalt surface, and repaving […]
by Navid Roshan-Afshar
Sep 21, 2013 
 

Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project Construction Progress September 15, 2013

Testing continues along the branch. Finishing work on the stations is for all intensive purposes done. There is a number of punch lists items that I noticed that need to be done that will not have any effect on the opening of the line. Such as connecting the entrance pavilion downspouts to the drain pipes. […]
by Sand Box John