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Reston/Herndon/Sterling are more well situated around higher density zones than West Falls Church and Vienna. I used the same numbers of riders averaged from WFC and Vienna (conservative based on the fact that the silver line corridor is far better established as stated above), and extended that to Wiehle, Reston, Herndon Monroe, and Innovation. Now admittedly a lot of people use connector/herndon monroe already to come down the DTR, but considering I used the conservative WFC/Vienna model for stations like Reston, which will see far better ridership from non-parkers, I think its a fair assumption.

WFC/Vienna numbers come from the 2009 ridership WMATA. http://www.wmata.com/pdfs/planning/FINAL%20Transit%20Ridership%20and%20Market%20Trends%20Report.pdf

Also consider that 135,000 commuters currently use DTR, it is not absurd to believe that 25-40% of these could be rail converts... no more so than only 44% of Tysons working in Tysons atleast.

Widening 123 to Courthouse will only encourage people to continue to go through Vienna, not reduce it. That's the problem when you have career politicians making decisions on things they know nothing about.

by Tysons Engineer on Jun 26, 2012 6:00 pm • link • report

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