Pick Your Transportation Improvement

By: Teddy
Published On: 12/21/2007 7:29:19 PM

Remember the much-maligned funding program for transportation passed this year by the Virginia Assembly (abuser fees et al)?  The Northern Virginia Transportation Authority, recipient of all that money from the new taxes, I mean fees, wants to know how to spend the largesse, so they are holding a public meeting on 10 January 2008 starting at 6 PM.  The location is the auditorium of George Mason High School at 724 Leesburg Pike in Falls Church. The Authority has a list of 60 projects to choose from. Examples include improvements to accessing Rosslyn Metro station, a streetcar on Columbia Pike, widening Route 15 along Bull Run Mountain (Evergreen to Leesburg), and so on. The list is available at http://www.thenovaauthority.or...
There is more information available at their web site: www.thenovaauthority.org
Attention suffering commuters and immobilized Northern Virginians: Now's your chance to give them a piece of your mind.

Comments



Put up or shut up time (Teddy - 12/21/2007 10:05:49 PM)
All of us who insisted we are desperate for transportation improvements, speak up! The list of 60 is pretty impressive, and even has an estimated cost attached to each suggestion... take a look.

Of course, this all assumes we actually get any money from the fees. The way it looks now is, the abuser fees will be repealed or reduced, the anticipated income from the increased real estate Grantor's Tax will not materialize because the housing market is in the tank... but even if it's an exercise in futility, it is still worth giving The Authority your wish list. You do have one, right?



Don't forget! (legacyofmarshall - 12/22/2007 1:07:20 AM)
We have some friends on the Authority.  Newly-elected Delegate Vanderhye will no doubt help steer them to the right choices.  You can also call on Chairman Conolly, if you're into that sort of thing...

Then there's Vince Callahan.

Some less friendly members include...

Jeff Frederick and EX-Senator Jeannemarie Devolites-Davis (who apparently never shows up to the meetings).



Some of them... (ericy - 12/22/2007 9:25:52 AM)

have to do with widening or increasing capacity for roads, which in the long term I see as a futile effort.  If you increase capacity, more traffic will come and use it up.

I guess the ones I would personally push the most are the ones  in the bicycle/ped category.  In the broader scheme of things, they are all very inexpensive, and make it easier and safer for people to get around without using cars.