whatever they’re smoking, I want some
I don’t have much of an opinion about whether the Metro extension to Dulles Airport should involve a tunnel under Tyson’s or not, but I do have one question:
In what universe does Fairfax County think it’s possible to turn Tyson’s Corner into a “walkable, quasi-urban hub?”
Have the County Board members actually been to Tyson’s? I don’t see how years of unchecked suburban sprawl are going to be turned into a place our car-free neighbors would enjoy strolling in…
What are they thinking! A walkable Tysons Corner would end the beloved Fairfax Frogger drinking game, where you stand on either side of Route 7 and drink every time a pedestrian makes it across another lane of traffic alive, guzzling two beers if they make it across in one dash, like this guy apparently did: http://tinyurl.com/mpv8g
Yeah, it seems like a pretty ambitious goal for a place whose planners apparently never heard of this fascinating “crosswalk” invention.
I thought Tyson’s was just a big parking lot surrounded by multi-lane roads.
I blogged about this not too long ago. If they really wanted to, they could cover Tyson’s with a real network of sidewalks for a miniscule fraction of what they’re proposing for the Metro project.