By STEPHEN SIEGEL
Falls Church Times Staff
Three decades after opponents thought they had forever limited Interstate 66 inside the Beltway to four lanes, the highway is set to be expanded. The Falls Church Times presents the following VIDEO REPORT: Click below to play.
By Stephen Siegel
September 29, 2009
6 Responses to “VIDEO REPORT: I-66 to Be Widened, Despite Promise”
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Wow, The Times is multimedia! Good report.
The sound is only on the left. Make sure you have your sound mixer set to mono, not stereo. I only have one earbud so it took me a while to figure out why there was no audio other than weird noise artifacts.
Nice explanation of the widening.
Good report! But where is the bias? Guess I’ll have to wait for the Fox News version…
Nice. I look forward to more multimedia elements on the site.
As do all of our neighbors, the City of Falls Church supports a rational and holistic approach to evaluating “spot” improvements to see that the overall impact is positive. We need to devote sufficient resources to all transportation modes in increasing the capacity of our transportation facilities.
From a Falls Church perspective, I question whether the specific “spot” improvements under discussion would simply move the bottleneck from the Glebe Road area to the Sycamore Street bridge, which might not improve the performance of the I-66 facility for persons desiring to exit at Sycamore or Route 7 or beyond. There are safety reasons that support the proposed improvements, and these additional issues are part of the longer-range plan, but they are not presently within the scope of what is likely to be funded any time soon.
Compounding these questions, the Silver Line Metro line, which branches from the Orange line just after the East Falls Church station, is likely to create additional traffic around Sycamore Street and the EFC Metro, although WMATA does not plan any significant infrastructure improvements other than the Silver Line itself. The City is engaged in an East Falls Church study with Arlington County, which presently envisions a more urban and transit-oriented land use pattern with a reduction of parking available at the Metro itself. The City of Falls Church does not support or oppose particular construction projects, but believes that the responsible agencies need to consider all of the implications of their proposals for the affected citizens and communities.
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Dan Maller is Falls Church City Council’s representative to the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission.)
“transit-oriented land use pattern with a reduction of parking available at the Metro itself.” Somehow this seems contradictory. Reducing parking will discourage Metro use or at least cause folks to park in the surrounding neighborhoods – where they already have parking restrictions. Sounds like it will make no one happy.