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Originally Posted by aquablue
It allows people from the burbs to go and work in Tysons easier. This gives Tysons, with its better business laws and ability to grow with taller buildings, the advantage over a DC that is restrained and will not upzone or pass better laws that help business.
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As important as Tysons is, it needs the Metro. To Tysons, it's not even a bad idea. Farther flung places already have the Metro.
A lot of your gripes, the ship has sailed already. Many of the newer highrises being built in Tysons would not have gone up if the Metro weren't coming, instead it'd be higher-density but with the same sea of parking there is now. And Fairfax County, in particular, has an economic interest in the Metro coming to Tysons and Reston.
Given that we have what's there already, the only thing you can do is improve it the best you can given the various constraints one might have. Blowing it up and starting anew is not an option.