saw the whole couple acres was cleared out of trees and leveled as i passed today, any route 7 commuters know whats bein built there? if rebuilding Tysons Corner wasnt bad enough, looks like the dirt diggin is spreadin west

The county is building another underutilized fire station there.

Yeah, underutilized because Fairfax isn't growing or expanding or anything... It's not like the metro won't cause an explosion of people.


Maybe it's a better idea to just sit around and wait for the area to grow and and THEN build a fire station....


Geez, haven't you ever played Sim City??

Fairfax county just figures out how to waste more tax money so we would pay more tax next year.

When is this work going to be completed? Seems to just drag on and on.

An empty multi-acre site in Fairfax County? Must develop! Cannot leave empty!

FFFF Wrote:
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> Yeah, underutilized because Fairfax isn't growing
> or expanding or anything... It's not like the
> metro won't cause an explosion of people.
>
>
> Maybe it's a better idea to just sit around and
> wait for the area to grow and and THEN build a
> fire station....
>
>
> Geez, haven't you ever played Sim City??

I'm familiar with the area. The station's first due is pretty much already developed. So their won't be an explosive growth in the population. It's mostly zoned at least R-1. As for demographics, the area isn't exactly Bailey's or Rt 1. Check out the annual run stats for the Great Falls and North Point stations. It's going to be the firefighters' that are going to be sitting around there.

When is this work going to be completed? Seems to
> just drag on and on.

The station should be completed sometime during 2013.

On an unrelated note, does anyone know why there's a Beulah Road that runs 123 up to Route 7 through Vienna and the Toll Road, and also a Beulah St. in the SE portion of the county from Franconia Rd down to Telegraph?

How did one guy get two unconnected roads so far apart named after him?

Like Lee Hwy and Lee Jackson Hwy and Old Lee Hwy and Lee rd?

Or martin Luther king blvd?

MLKBLVD Wrote:
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> Like Lee Hwy and Lee Jackson Hwy and Old Lee Hwy
> and Lee rd?
>
> Or martin Luther king blvd?


I know who Lee and MLK are, as well as Jackson, but who is Beulah, if these roads are both named after him/her? I was probably not paying attention in history class in HS when they covered this...

Anyone? Anyone? Beulah? Beulah?

Bueller? Bueller? anyone?

So because you didn't hear about anyone named Beulah when you grew up means he wasn't important enough to get a road name?

Who the fuck was Braddock? Sydenstricker? Edsall?

Who really gives a shit if there's a Beulah Road and Beulah Street in the same county. There's hundreds of other examples like this.

Braddock was some important dude in the Revolutionary War who buried a bunch of gold along the road somewhere

KeepOnTruckin Wrote:
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> Braddock was some important dude in the
> Revolutionary War who buried a bunch of gold along
> the road somewhere


Product of FCPS, I assume. Braddock was a colonial era British General who died 20 years before the Revolutionary War was fought. He was an important 'dude' in the French and Indian war. George Washington served under him.

SrrslyCat Wrote:
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> Who the fuck was Braddock? Sydenstricker? Edsall?

As scary! states Braddock was named after Gen Braddock, the British commander who lead an unsucessful expedition to try to evict the French from Fort Duquesne in 1755, where Pittsburgh now stands. George Washington served on Braddock's staff in the expedition. The Braddock roads in Alexandria and Fairfax supposedly are the road that certain British troops cut through northern Virginia as they moved west from Alexandria.

Edsall Road is named after the Edsall family who owned land in the eastern part of Fairfax County. There was a railroad stop located on the family property, hence the road.

I am fairly certain Sydenstricker was named after another family that lived in the Burke-Springfield area.

Ok I thin we've established that road names tend to have local origins.

Happy?

scary! Wrote:
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> KeepOnTruckin Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Braddock was some important dude in the
> > Revolutionary War who buried a bunch of gold
> along
> > the road somewhere
>
>
> Product of FCPS, I assume. Braddock was a
> colonial era British General who died 20 years
> before the Revolutionary War was fought. He was
> an important 'dude' in the French and Indian war.
> George Washington served under him.


The French and Indian war is the same thing as the American Revolushun, dumbass. Learn your important dates in American history

KeepOnTruckin Wrote:
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> The French and Indian war is the same thing as the
> American Revolushun, dumbass. Learn your important
> dates in American history

Seriously?

French and Indian War: 1754–1763
American Revolution: 1775–1783

Ut videam Wrote:
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> KeepOnTruckin Wrote:
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> -----
> > The French and Indian war is the same thing as
> the
> > American Revolushun, dumbass. Learn your
> important
> > dates in American history
>
> Seriously?
>
> French and Indian War: 1754–1763
> American Revolution: 1775–1783

Oh, brother!

French and Indian War - US Colonists and British Army fight the French and Indians

American Revolution - US Colonists fight British Army

Ut videam Wrote:
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> KeepOnTruckin Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > The French and Indian war is the same thing as
> the
> > American Revolushun, dumbass. Learn your
> important
> > dates in American history
>
> Seriously?
>
> French and Indian War: 1754–1763
> American Revolution: 1775–1783

I'm just hoping (assuming?) he was trolling. Otherwise, good grief.

Edward Braddock was George Mason's roommate and half brother. Their father was George Jefferson, brother of Thomas. Both were bastard children raised by their mothers. Braddock's only full brother was Benjamin Braddock, and Mason had a sister Marsha.

Together they founded George Mason University in the late 1800's, after they flipped a coin to determine who they would name the school after. Unable to drive their Hummer easily to the school from the Beltway, they decided to build a road to the school. Since the school was already named after Mason, they decided to name the road after Braddock.

Braddock died in a pedestrian accident on the road, after which George erected one of those little white crosses at the intersection of 123 & Braddock Road.

Thank you, Gov. Palin.

the truth Wrote:
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> Edward Braddock was George Mason's roommate and
> half brother. Their father was George Jefferson,
> brother of Thomas. Both were bastard children
> raised by their mothers. Braddock's only full
> brother was Benjamin Braddock, and Mason had a
> sister Marsha.
>
> Together they founded George Mason University in
> the late 1800's, after they flipped a coin to
> determine who they would name the school after.
> Unable to drive their Hummer easily to the school
> from the Beltway, they decided to build a road to
> the school. Since the school was already named
> after Mason, they decided to name the road after
> Braddock.
>
> Braddock died in a pedestrian accident on the
> road, after which George erected one of those
> little white crosses at the intersection of 123 &
> Braddock Road.