Tysons Corner Gets its Share of the Stimulus Pie

Metro to Dulles!  According to the Washington Post, the federal government made it’s formal commitment to a long-planned extension of Metro to Dulles International Airport.  This allows the region, finally, to focus on this reality: a public transit line serving Washington’s busiest airport and Virginia’s most prosperous — and congested — jobs corridor. 

The expansion of that network toward the airport will begin in earnest in the next week or two. The Silver Line will extend 23 miles from the East Falls Church Metro station to the airport and will terminate in Ashburn. The tracks will branch off the Orange Line, follow the median of the Dulles Connector Road, trundle through Tysons Corner and then settle into the median of the Dulles Access Road for the bulk of the westward journey. Through Tysons, trains will travel along an aerial track supported by piers. Huge flyovers will carry the tracks from highway medians onto local roads. A tunnel about 2,000 feet long will carry trains underneath Tysons’ main intersection at routes 7 and 123.

The Post also published this map.  Read more here. And here.

I know we always complain about the traffic around Tysons, but how about the pedestrian traffic in the Mall?  That can get pretty intense too.

A light day of foot traffic at the Mall