Please share this email with your neighbors, especially if you you use Braddock Road from west of Guinea Road, or from Rolling Road, Burke Lake Road, or Guinea Road. Your voices are not being heard by the county!
Many of you have seen previous posts on the proposed Braddock Road expansion from the beltway to Guinea Road, and the proposed Park and Ride lot next to King's Park Shopping Center. The Fairfax County Department of Transportation has posted a survey to get input from local residents on the Park and Ride lot.
You may already know that the community task force with representatives from each of the local neighborhoods has lobbied the county to cancel the additional lane in each direction and instead use the money to just improve the intersections into their neighborhoods to make it easier for them to go in and out and make their left turns. Now they want to cancel the park and ride lot, which has already been scaled down from the needed 1,200 space garage and transportation center.
This NIMBY approach to traffic planning fails every time. These are the same planners who were convinced that taking away a lane on Braddock Road at Wakefield Chapel Road at the urging of these community idiots was a good idea - then was forced by VDOT to put it back, all on the county's dime. They have produced a nonsensical study that purports to show that intersection changes with more left turns will actually improve traffic flows.
The real reason that these NIMBYs don't want the Park and Ride lot is that they are afraid that express buses will go there, replacing the slow routes through their neighborhoods.
I strongly encourage you to visit the site and put in your input. In the spaces for remarks please tell them:
- Without an additional through lane in each direction using the already existing rights of way, this project is doomed.
- The Park and Ride will serve commuters who currently are forced to park in neighborhoods or the shopping centers to catch the bus.
- Cut through neighborhood traffic will get significantly worse if only intersection changes are made, as it will be easier to access these short cuts.
- The Park and Ride should be built BEFORE the other Braddock Road improvements, followed by new traffic studies conducted to confirm the need for additional through lanes instead of just intersection improvements.
Survey deadline is July 24.
Survey Link:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BraddockCorridorTransportation
Details on the project:
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/fcdot/braddockroadmmstudy/
Please also share your concerns with John Cook at
braddock@fairfaxcounty.gov. He is currently overwhelmed with emails from the NIMBYs and welcomes emails from others in his district.