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Category: Transportation

Mar 12, 2015 
 

2015 Scheduled Repaving Means Road Diets Coming To North Tysons

It’s been a long and frustrating wait for the lofty goals of a new Tysons to come to fruition, but in 2015 the most populated part of Tysons might start seeing real substantial changes for pedestrian and bike improvements. 2015 is a scheduled repaving year for most of Tysons which provides FCDOT (with guidance from […]
by Navid Roshan-Afshar
Feb 25, 2015 
 

Tysons Corner Metro Station Bike Lockers Unnecessarily Split

Let’s not look a gift horse in the mouth, getting bike infrastructure of any kind in Tysons is novel, and understandably an evolving study, but this week I couldn’t help but notice the deficiency of the current layout of bike lockers at the Silver Line’s Tysons Corner station. The station, like others in Tysons, has […]
by Navid Roshan-Afshar
Feb 16, 2015 
 

Westpark Sidewalk Gap Doesn’t Need New Right of Way

For years now residents of North Tysons have had to mitigate a lingering sidewalk gap that doesn’t appear to be going away. Along the north side of Westpark Drive near the intersection of International Drive a steep slope and forested area has kept FCDOT from being able to connect the neighborhood of Park Crest to […]
by Navid Roshan-Afshar
Feb 04, 2015 
Jan 21, 2015 
Jan 14, 2015 
 

WMATA Operational Costs Compared to Other Jurisdictions

The following charts were created using data from National Transit Database information located here and is based on the latest full year data for all jurisdictions. Cost of living (COL) was derived from payscale.com. Major takeaways from the data. WMATA systems cost more on a personnel and on a total operation basis for rail & bus […]
by Navid Roshan-Afshar
Jan 11, 2015 
 

Fairfax Connector Losing Possible Riders Without NextBus

The completion of Silver Line Phase 1 provided Fairfax County, and their county bus system Fairfax Connector, an opportunity to realign many routes that had not changed in years to better connect passengers to the Silver Line. By removing many east-west paths that were redundant with the Silver Line, Fairfax Connector was able to increase […]
by Navid Roshan-Afshar
Jan 08, 2015 
 

TNC’S Transportation Network Companies…The New Cab?

It’s that time again, sign up to attend GovPartner’s quarterly panel discussion! This breakfast event will be held Wednesday, February 4th at Clyde’s in Tysons Corner, Virginia at 8:30 a.m. The theme of this event is “TNC’s Transportation Network Companies… the New Cab?” The focus is to bring together parties from local government, traditional taxi companies, and TNC’s to […]
by rmurry
Dec 29, 2014 
 

Interim Pedestrian Requirements Needed in Tysons

When discussing anything having to do with deficiencies in the Tysons with officials or stakeholders the common response we always hear is “This is going to take time”. I think everyone can agree that a complete reversal of the suburban office park on steroids into a habitable and functioning city is, of course, going to […]
by Navid Roshan-Afshar
Dec 08, 2014 
 

Tysons Central 123 Pedestrian Improvements Mounting

When most people think of Tysons they think of the super blocks of the malls, the impassible obstacles of Route 7 and Route 123, and endless parking lots. Many would try to attack the lack of walkability by focusing on these massive hurdles, but the reality is that these obstacles are in the least populated […]
by Navid Roshan-Afshar