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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Online Chat Draws Resident Input on Silver Line, Connector

Fairfax County officials host program as part of weeklong outreach effort around bus service to the Metro line.

Fairfax County officials answered residents’ questions Tuesday regarding the first half of the Silver Line and the new Connector bus routes that will launch when the Metro line opens at the end of the year. Nick Perfili, Dulles Rail Project Planner, and Christy Wegener, Connector’s manager of operations, led the discussion, part of a weeklong effort to gather input on the many changes coming to Connector service in the area. The Fairfax County Department of Transportation’s (FCDOT) plan includes the addition of 12 new routes and restructuring of 20 existing routes, as well the elimination of six others. One chatter in Tuesday's discussion asked about Route 722, which would run down narrow Churchill Road and past Churchill Road Elementary …

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New Tysons Routes For Review at Connector Meetings (in Tysons Corner Patch) and Residents Want More Bus Service, But How and Where Remain the Question

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Residents Want More Bus Service, But How and Where Remain the Question

Community offers feedback to proposed Fairfax County Connector routes, which will launch with the opening of the Silver Line later this year.

Vienna and Tysons area residents want Connector bus services in their communities, but residents don’t agree on how they want the routes to run once the first half of the Silver Line opens at the end of 2013. During a two-hour meeting at Westbriar Elementary School, Fairfax County Department of Transportation officials presented a series of proposed modifications to bus service to and from Silver Line stations. But residents raised concerns about route layouts, bus frequency, parking facilities and more. The meeting was one of several planned this week and over the next few months as the Board of Supervisors looks to approve bus service changes by May. The county’s 2010 Transit Development Plan recommends 12 new routes be added to Tysons, …

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