This article looks for Restonians' views on how to spend the $60 million carryover from this year's budget. There are many good ways this could be spent--including maybe a $100 thousand or so on a second traffic analysis scenario for Reston's TOD areas so we could see how a residential-intensive development pattern would affect traffic in comparison with the baseline commercial-intensive scenario now proposed.
Public hearing next month to talk about $60 million.By Bobbi Bowman Email the author
Fairfax County taxpayers can tell the Board of Supervisors at September hearings how they would like to spend an extra $60 million that has flowed into county coffers.
Where did the money come from? The county collected more in taxes than anticipated and spent less than had been budgeted to run the county. . . .
The greatest Reston capital infrastructure need right now, however, is to fund the Soapstone extension overpass across the Dulles Corridor to the Wiehle Avenue Metrorail parking garage area. This would alleviate the coming gridlock at Sunrise Valley and Wiehle and the turn from Wiehle into and out of the the new garage area being built by Comstock. The Reston Metrorail Advisory Group (RMAG) consultant put the cost of this overpass across the Dulles Corridor at $42 million in 2008, but it's probably more costly now. Even if the money were committed right now (and none has been so far), the County would be hard pressed to deliver the overpass before the completion of Phase 1 of the Metrorail to Wiehle in 2013.
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