Category: Transportation

With most of the work complete along the length of the new Silver Line Phase 1 metro line, the lesser elements of the project like landscape, hardscape, lighting, and maintenance access are becoming more visible. One scope item I wasn’t aware of was the implementation of new stormwater facilities within the median of Route 7 […]

One of the biggest layman misconceptions about the link between land use and transportation is that growth creates the same amount of traffic demand no matter where or how it’s located. It was one of the main arguments made against any density increases in Tysons, even those for residential density, because it was inaccurately noted […]

Proposed Concept Implementation in Tysons Score Streetsblog.net addresses some of the insanity in San Francisco surrounding residents who want more housing that is affordable downtown, but want to restrict every project that comes in to limit heights and overall density. Which leads me to wonder, if you don’t allow new units to come up, then […]

Last week I was visiting some family in Burke and while driving back to Tysons on Braddock Road I witnessed an extremely dangerous traffic situation. Just after the intersection for Wakefield Chapel Road there is a crosswalk striped mid-block that leads from a perpendicular trail to a bus stop on the side of the raod. […]

A walkshed is an important depiction of how far a person can get given a certain walkable distance. Typically walkshed maps are either of a 1/4 mile walk distance or a 1/2 mile walk distance. The significant difference bet-ween a walkshed and an aerial map with a radial distance depiction, like those shown in the […]

Residents of the Gates of McLean have certainly noticed some construction recently as the once dormant Capital One property has been undergoing major infrastructure upgrades in preparation of their future headquarters redevelopment. The 26 acre property is installing a future road grid that will turn the traditional office park into a full mixed use neighborhood. […]

This week we received a document from the always informative JJ Madden (you can thank her for that great pedestrian bridge that connects North Vienna with the Wolf Trap neighborhood) that shows regional transportation leaders believe widening of Route 123 is necessary within Tysons. The document from the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG) notes […]

It may come as a surprise to many, but part of the Board of Supervisor’s plans to create a more urban transportation network for Tysons reached a first, but significant, milestone recently. For those who didn’t follow the process of the Comprehensive Plan for Tysons, as shocking as that might sound to me, a significant […]