Sunday, December 28, 2008

BIKE PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE FROM METRO PARK TO WINDSOR ESTATES

Traffic on Beulah St is heavy. Pedestrians and Bikers need to be taken out of this turmoil. The correct solution is to have large heavy duty bike/pedestrian bridge from Metro Park to Shoppers Shopping Center to Lane Elementary and crossing over to Windsor Estates. Bike traffic could then safely go either from Metro Park or the Hayfield area to Metro/Springfield Transportation Center or by going over the proposed bridge over the RR, could go into Springfield Mall.Furthermore bike or pedestrian traffic could proceed further by going over the existing pedestrian bike bridge over rt 95 to other points. As development proceeds on Beulah St , Springfield, and Windsor Estates, high speed car traffic needs to be separated from pedestrian and bike traffic. These bridges are important to the development. At a recent land use meeting, one person spoke to me about some friends injured by cars while biking. While vising Arlington County, I saw an athletic forty something biker in the middle of an intersection after he was hit by a car. Proper planning dictates that bikers and pedestrian be kept separate from high speed auto traffic.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Editorial:Extension of Frontier Drive to Springfield Center Dr to Loisdale Rd

Editorial: Springfield is exploding with mixed use development. In order to make traffic move smoothly, Frontier Drive needs to be extended to Springfield Center Dr. to Loisdale Rd. The extension will provide a much needed loop. However, the metro needs to be extended from Fort Belvoir to Springfield to Tysons, to Dulles. The Springfield area will eventually dwarf Tyson's Corner in mixed use development. The development of Windsor Estates will do several economic objectives; greater use of land,create jobs, create wealth for the land owners of Windsor Estates and more tax revenue for Fairfax County. This development would dwarf Tyson's Corner. Currently, Windsor Estates has more transportation options than Tyson's Corner.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Editorial: Extension VRE to Thornburg VA and Mineral VA



VRE is a vital transport element that needs to be extended to Thornburg VA. Mixed use is exploding along the 95 corridor from here in Springfield VA to Thornburg VA. Additional extension from the Manassas VA to Mineral VA ,Beaver Dam VA, and Bumpass VA is highly desirable. This extension combined with the extension metro from Fort Belvoir VA from to Springfield to Tyson's Corner to Dulles Airport would be a permanent solution to totally gridlock!!!If these transportation ideas are not implemented,we will have total gridlock.!!!!! Just listen to WTOP in the morning and and listen to all the crashes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Where would we be if metro had not happened!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Editorial: Need of a large bike Bridge over the RR tracks of the Springfield Transportation USA




Editorial: We also need to promote a second bridge for bikes and passenger connecting the Barry Road to the other side of the Springfield Transportation Center. Additionally a bike bath parallel to the railroad track needs to be developed. The bridge should be the equivalent of the bike passenger bridge that goes over rt 95. The idea is to have bike traffic that currently goes to the transportation center and then could go through and connect to the bridge that goes over rt 95.

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Editorial:Metro needs to be extended from Fort Belvoir to Dulles Airport

EDITORIAL:The metro needs to be extended from Fort Belvoir to Springfield Transportation Center to Tyson's Corner and then to Dulles Airport. While gas prices are going down , traffic congestion is up. WTOP is a constant report of crashes in the morning. Mixed use is developing. What would have happened if metro had not happened? We need to get real. The future in development is rapid transit. The only way we are going to go out of the current economic mess is mixed use development and aggressive development of metro to Dulles. If we do not, we will have total grid lock of crashes. We also need to promote a second bridge for bikes and passenger connecting the Barry Road to the other side of the Springfield Transportation Center. Additionally a bike bath parallel to the railroad track needs to be developed.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Bike Commuter, Metro, RR, Bus all within walking of Windsor Estates, Alexandria VA USA








Biking to Metro RR Bus vre transportation Center from Windsor Estates Alexandria VA USA 22315





Sunday, September 14, 2008

The Best Spot for 6,200 Army Workers

The Best Spot for 6,200 Army Workers

Sunday, September 14, 2008; B08

The Army is nearing a decision about where at least 6,200 employees of the Defense Department's Washington Headquarters Services (WHS) and other Defense employees should work when the agency moves out of leased space in Crystal City, as mandated by the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC). Two sites in Alexandria and one in Springfield are under consideration for the WHS offices. The Springfield site -- which is occupied by warehouses operated by the General Services Administration (GSA) -- is the only one that offers the Army a secure and accessible location for its current and future needs, meets BRAC-related goals, and saves taxpayers money.

Of primary importance today is security, and the Springfield site offers a far more secure location because it is much larger than the Victory Center site off Eisenhower Avenue and the Mark Center site off Seminary Road. The Springfield site has 70 acres. The Victory Center encompasses 16 acres (which had been home to the Army Materiel Command until it moved in 2003 to more secure quarters at Fort Belvoir), and the Mark Center proposal includes about 24 acres. Because of its size, the Springfield site is the only one that can offer the full 148-foot setbacks that Defense Department officials require for secure locations.

Larger setbacks mean less taxpayer money is needed to make buildings secure. Further, the Springfield site is large enough to accommodate future expansion, and land is available on adjacent privately owned sites in case contractors want to locate facilities nearby.

The Springfield location also offers far better access for drivers, carpoolers and those who use public transportation. The GSA warehouses are close to Interstates 95 and 395, the Capital Beltway and the Fairfax County and Franconia-Springfield parkways. Springfield's location as the southernmost option, and its proximity to all these major highways is important because Army analysis has shown that most WHS employees live south of the site.

The GSA site also is less than half a mile from the Joe Alexander Transportation Center, which includes the Franconia-Springfield Metro station (terminus of the Blue Line, which also serves the Pentagon), a Virginia Railway Express stop, and commuter and intercity bus hubs. The Mark Center and Victory Center sites cannot match this multimodal transportation infrastructure.

Congress specified that underused military or federal government properties should be used for Defense Department operations moved as a result of BRAC recommendations. The Springfield site is the only one of the three options that meets that congressional intent. It already is owned by the federal government, while the Alexandria sites are privately owned.

Federal taxpayers would pay to buy the land in Alexandria, and the City of Alexandria would lose millions in revenue if either property was removed from the tax rolls -- at the same time that local governments are faced with tight budgets and the possibility of having to cut public services. The GSA site also is much closer to Fort Belvoir, which is important because the site chosen by the Army will become an administrative component of the post.

Sitting a short walk from one of the largest transportation centers in the Washington area, and in the middle of one of the most dynamic economies in the nation, GSA warehouses are no longer the best use of that site. Putting the Defense Department's Washington Headquarters Services in a quality, secure, accessible office setting would be a far better use of the land and a far better investment of taxpayer dollars than the other options under consideration.

-- Gerald L. Gordon

Vienna

The writer is president and chief executive officer of the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority.

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Thursday, July 31, 2008

GreyHound Bus Terminal

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Metro and Inter county Bus Service








Friday, June 13, 2008

For Sale $800,000 flat cleared lot on Windham Ave, Alexandria VA 22315 USA call Tommy Foster 703-521-6500

Call Tom Foster 703 521-6500 or Email: tfoster@priorart.com













This is a nice flat lot on Windham Ave Alexandria VA nicely priced at $800,000 Price may go up if mixed use comes. The property is within walking distance of metro. Other lands nearby are for sale.