tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post3152043728564812551..comments2024-02-29T14:00:40.184-05:00Comments on Restonian: News blog from Reston, Virginia, the mauve-colored New Town (tm): Next Stop, the Woodshed: Metro Silver Line Feud Enters Double Secret ProbationRestonianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15519884797760354007noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-32243291418303479332011-06-20T17:53:28.786-04:002011-06-20T17:53:28.786-04:00The whole project should be trashed. The Toll Road...The whole project should be trashed. The Toll Road should be returned to its rightful owner, the Commonwealth of Virginia. The current construction materials should be recycled. All of it should be replaced with a real commuter train, not a half-ass subway. The current project is just flushing billions down the toilet for no gain. Traffic will be just as bad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-74557690122822309352011-06-05T11:10:16.530-04:002011-06-05T11:10:16.530-04:00James:
"Tigher control of new construction?&...James:<br /><br />"Tigher control of new construction?"<br /><br />Have you been reading any local papers the last year and a half? The county wants to double Reston's population and increase the numbers of people coming to work here every day by 100,000.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-57099034229649315552011-06-04T16:18:14.285-04:002011-06-04T16:18:14.285-04:00This latest food fight is fun (?) to watch, but st...This latest food fight is fun (?) to watch, but still a distraction from the real issues. First and foremost, there are too many cars on the roads in the region and we use far too much gasoline. Reducing the number of cars and the amount of gasoline consumed while allowing folks to move around the region has to be the primary goal. We need to follow the example of Paris and London and create a regional authority that controls all forms of transport -- car, rail, bus bike.. and empower it to make the changes necessary. Those changes almost certainly include tolls on all limited access roads, higher gas taxes and car taxes, greatly expanded bus service almost immediately, new light and heavy rail lines in the long term, new feeder bus service in the subdivisions, and tighter controls of new construction.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04936407151945903609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-58760134773081139072011-06-03T21:42:14.889-04:002011-06-03T21:42:14.889-04:00There are a lot of folks who use the toll road to ...There are a lot of folks who use the toll road to go to work. The Silver Line won't get them to their jobs as there is no connecting mass transit system between the Silver Line stations and where they work. People who live in Reston and have to use the toll road to go to work should pay punitive tolls? Why? <br /><br />Eventually everyone who can't get to work except by using the toll road will have to leave Reston. Yes, convict? You like that kind of social engineering? That suits you? <br /><br />Wonder what that will do to property values here?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-46243946638843188052011-06-03T18:35:02.911-04:002011-06-03T18:35:02.911-04:00I don't understand all the emphasis on targett...I don't understand all the emphasis on targetting toll road users, as if every govt expenditure must be exclusively targeted at the people who use it. We Restonites pay taxes on many things that we don't use. All those vdot work projects outside of Reston for instance. This is a shared burden. The county and the state tax payers should be helping out, as we nearby toll road dwellars have helped out them on their infrastructure projects.schmoenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-41270002130216593632011-06-03T15:52:31.965-04:002011-06-03T15:52:31.965-04:00How about putting the fees on the cab companies th...How about putting the fees on the cab companies that make out like bandits going free up and down the access way? And the flyer? And the shuttles?<br /><br />I'm with convict though. As the tolls go up, I figure out ways around without using DTR. It is amazing what you can accomplish on a bicycle if you put your mind to it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-3196115159036464402011-06-03T11:29:30.432-04:002011-06-03T11:29:30.432-04:00How 'bout a toll on the Dulles ACCESS road? T...How 'bout a toll on the Dulles ACCESS road? The DTR serves folks who are NOT going to the airport. Charge the airport users instead of the airport non-users?<br /><br />If the Silver line ever opens, every parking space within a mile of the airport will be chock-a-block full by 8:00AM, just like at every other Metro station. Where will airport users park?<br /><br />No available parking at any Metro station, unlikely to find parking at the airport (except for the places they reserve for congressmen. Unless one lives walking distance from Metro, the only way to get to Dulles will be by taxi.<br /><br />I'm gonna' buy Washington Flyer stock.scubadivernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-33501818277706007472011-06-03T11:15:47.377-04:002011-06-03T11:15:47.377-04:00Convict, if you can't afford $2, then just sta...Convict, if you can't afford $2, then just stay home.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-16250689456539059602011-06-03T10:47:42.617-04:002011-06-03T10:47:42.617-04:00Anon 4:40, the $20 DTR toll is pure hyperbole. Wh...Anon 4:40, the $20 DTR toll is pure hyperbole. Who would actually pay $20 to use the DTR? Right now, it's at $2 for me, and I refuse to use it except when I absolutely have to (which ain't often).<br /><br />I say, if we're going to have tolls, then let's use them for something more than paying the toll collectors. If getting people out of their cars and into the Metro is the goal, then a punitive toll seems like a reasonable measure to me. <br /><br />And if you don't want to take the Metro, you can always use Routes 7 or 50. There are alternatives to the DTR.The Convictnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-59161015247772387192011-06-02T23:04:26.244-04:002011-06-02T23:04:26.244-04:00The whole damn thing is a white elephant and boond...<i>The whole damn thing is a white elephant and boondoggle that will always require huge subsidies from Toll Road users and the general funds of FFX and Loudoun.</i><br /><br />Ya know, since the AIRPORT owns it, and it goes TO AND FROM THE AIRPORT, the naive observer might say that PEOPLE WHO USE THE AIRPORT should have to pay for it. What is stopping them from adding an extra tax to the plane tickets? It's not like people can (or would) avoid Dulles just to dodge that fee. If they need Congress to make it happen, well, make it happen already!<br /><br />Another way they could achieve the same result would be to charge tolls for using the middle lanes. You know, the ones that go TO AND FROM THE AIRPORT? Why shouldn't those people pay?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-4738964608848723872011-06-02T17:04:22.693-04:002011-06-02T17:04:22.693-04:00If they don't build it to Dulles, they need to...If they don't build it to Dulles, they need to rename it from the Silver Line to the Mauve Line.JayKayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09991681390974542261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-57343789087830534572011-06-02T16:40:38.868-04:002011-06-02T16:40:38.868-04:00Yep. To travel the Dulles Toll Road it will cost ...Yep. To travel the Dulles Toll Road it will cost $10 each way nine years from now. And by 2040 it will cost $20 each way. And that figure is based on current costs. If costs escalate so will the tolls we pay for a road we already paid for. <br /><br />Who is responsible for this?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-18499532467226345392011-06-02T16:33:23.167-04:002011-06-02T16:33:23.167-04:00The whole damn thing is a white elephant and boond...The whole damn thing is a white elephant and boondoggle that will always require huge subsidies from Toll Road users and the general funds of FFX and Loudoun.<br /><br />18 stations from Metro Center to Dulles, bring a pillow and blankie its going to take a while (I'd say bring a lunch but there's no eating on Metro; remember when Metro cops arrested a school girl over a french fry); a design that permanently precludes express trains; no headway left downtown meaning every train to Dulles is one less train to Vienna or Franconia.<br /><br />Don't be suprised if Loudoun says thanks but no thanks to stations past Dulles after they see the subsidy they'll have to collect from their tax averse voters, every year.<br /><br />This project could have been FUBAR worse but it's tough to see how.<br /><br />But Bechtel is sure making a ton of dough off the Toll Road users.<br /><br />Just think, next, the users of the now free Access Road will be paying a toll forever too!<br /><br />YippeeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-3259612563220484212011-06-02T16:30:44.359-04:002011-06-02T16:30:44.359-04:00I think you have left out the Loudoun controversy....I think you have left out the Loudoun controversy. They are threatening to pull their contribution to the project if they don't get their underground stop. Cannot believe this is crumbling now. If they cancel part II then they better just adjust and make it go straight to the airport.<br /><br />http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Loudoun_Co__Threatens_to_Ditch_Dulles_Metro_Project_Washington_DC-122074959.htmlAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02720905803693584353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-48980445213249583462011-06-02T15:38:52.726-04:002011-06-02T15:38:52.726-04:00I think they should skip the second half of the ra...I think they should skip the second half of the rail line to Dulles, and instead build a giant catapult at the Wiehle Ave station that would fling the passengers to the terminal from Reston.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com