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@Joshua Davis writes: "However you slice it, the silver line is quite likely to add more than 4 additional trainloads worth of people per hour. It's not going to be fun. Arlington needs to add office space and put a brake on additional housing, it seems to me."

::: Agree completely. ::: Also, development of the Dunn-Loring, Vienna, and West Falls Church status could be done NOW without waiting for the Silver Line. MetroWest has landed cleared at Vienna but has stalled waiting for funding. Dunn-Loring has started doing stuff to make the area more walkable and a nice place to grab something to eat, but could be accelerated.

With all the rush about the FAR-OFF possibilities of Tysons, efforts to improve EXISTING Vienna, Dunn-Loring, and the Falls Churches seems to have been overlooked.

@J writes: "The most obvious solution is....fix the damns switches!"

Agreed, that would seem to be the obvious solution. I've been on the Orange/Blue Line westbound during rush hour and was seriously depressed to see only 6-car (vs. 8-car) trains go by every 5-7 minutes.... what's up with that? Meanwhile the trains are so full at Farragut West and Foggy Bottom, even before Rosslyn, that people cannot get on and some are even collapsing of heat exhaustion!

@Joshua Davis - your logic is flawed. You said West Falls Church (18th most busy station at rush hour) but that's NOT on the Silver Line. Vienna is the 3rd most busy station at AM rush hour, also not on the Silver Line. Silver Line will ADD additional people who normally don't take the Metro because the Orange Line because it's too far from their homes, but the Silver Line is acceptable, so it's not a SPLIT, it's a SPLIT PLUS MORE. Silver-Orange between EFC and Rosslyn will be a nightmare unless the they're all 8-cars and running FASTER.

by A. Walker on Jul 2, 2010 7:03 pm • link • report