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I agree with mfs. You can be excused, since you're a newcomer to the area, but if you had seen Wilson Blvd. before Metro construction began, you would hardly call it a favored quarter. It was dotted with crumbling strip malls, and the Ballston end was anchored by the dreadful Parkington shopping center, which was about as enticing as its name implied. Wilson Blvd in the 80s looked far worse than Lee Hwy. does today.

Arlington County planners saw Metrorail as an opportunity to revitalize a declining neighborhood at a time most other jurisdictions were merely calculating how big to build the Metro station parking garages. The original path of the Orange line was to be in I-66's median through all of Arlington. If I remember correctly, Arlington coughed up its own cash to pay for the extra cost of burying the line under Wilson Blvd.

by c5karl on Oct 23, 2008 12:15 pm • link • report

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