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Originally Posted by Eveningsong
There are too many highways around the subway stations and there doesn't appear to be anything around either. Never been but a low-rise zone should use subways to get around.
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I agree. There are malls and some new office towers. It's also ugly with the concrete tracks above ground. Tysons is awful, and is reston, etc.. . The metro is just bad for DC, it just makes it easier for people to access these ugly edge sterile cities that have no souls. These edge CBDs will soon surpass DC due to lower taxes, better business enviro, better politics, and cheaper land. Blame DC politics for being so backward and not allowing higher density development to take place in the core city and it is now supply constrained and too expensive to live and build there. Also, putting the airport out there was ludicrous. Way too far from DC and just accelerated sprawl to the detriment of DC. Tysons is a godforesaken place and should not exist. DC is constrained while the suburbs boom. That is just wrong. Tysons is a horrible place, really ugly and car dominated and is detrimental to the development of DC as a world class city. DC could have this development inside its borders if it had proper leadership. But no, it forsakes the tax revenues to Virginia all because it can't get its act together and grow up. White flight ruined DC and led to the development of malls and and people started living 20 miles + from DC near new employment poles. DC got it all wrong. It lost it's chance to become a world class city on par with Madrid, Rome, Berlin, etc.