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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You guys know the WMATA website gives you transit times right?  Its about 60 minutes to get from Yorktown to the CC via public trans during the middle of the day. 30 minutes from W&L to the Career Center and 40 minutes from Wakefield.

Maybe thats workable for students, maybe not.  I do know if I'm a teacher I'm not sacrificing 1 to 2 extra hours a day commuting there via public trans so that Arlington can save a few bucks on a parking garage.  I'd take a pay cut to teach somewhere more convenient. [/quote]

To the extent this conversation is about students, it’s absurd. Students get a bus to option schools. And students who go during the day for programs likewise get a bus or shuttle. No student at this school will have to take public transportation in order to attend. [/quote]

People aren’t asking for any and all students to have parking. It’s an underground garage for staff, and a limited number of surface spaces for ADA and parent/student short-term visitors. That’s it. TDM doesn’t work when you just make all street parking free. If we want TDM, for real, everyone has to pay for parking by zoning everything and then people who want to, whether it’s residents who want to park in front of their house, or visitors to Arlington, or people coming here to work, can pay for the privilege. But that’s not what is happening here. No, they’re keeping their zones where they live and telling the rest of us plebes to deal with it. And only making the teachers have to deal with the inconvenience of teaching at certain sites.

The issue is taking investment away from the Pike to send it north. You already screwed us with canceling the Streetcar. Metro isn’t coming to the Pike for 25 years, if ever. The teachers deserve a garage. And if they don’t build one, you’re not taking the money for other things. GFYs. [/quote]

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