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Originally Posted by ardecila
It's ugly if you are at street level, but the emerging urban pattern in Tysons has pedestrians at Level +1 or +2. It will end up like La Defense in Paris, gradually stepping down to more residential neighborhoods as you get further away from Rte 7 or Rte 123.
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Google led me to this interesting article from 2005:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archi...-bad25288d82d/
I'm really surprised that we're over 500 feet in this area, since it's only a few miles from sea level, and NVA has never struck me as having a significant incline.
Also, some circa-2015 reporting complains that the silver line was poaching riders from the orange line. That thought doesn't acknowledge that to whatever extent the silver line doesn't serve Tyson's well, it definitely makes no attempt to serve an existing node west of the Dulles Toll Road.
It seems to me that Tyson's should have been built first, and if they had, would there still have been an impetus to build the orange line past the Dulles Toll Rd.?