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[quote=Anonymous][quote=WillardD][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you live near Fox Mill and are commuting into DC, the commute is going to be an unpleasant one. This is somewhat mediated by there being Silver Line train stations pretty close to FMES, ~15 minutes away during rush hour, I believe.[/quote]

The Herndon station is 5 minutes from the school, maybe 10 if you hit every light wrong. There is a lot of parking at the Metro stop as well. The Wiehle station is about 15 minutes away but there are now two stops between Fox Mill and Wiehle.  If your job is near one of the Orange line stations it is a pretty easy trip in because Silver shares the line with Orange.

There are a large number of child care options that pick up at Fox Mill ES so finding child care is not a problem. [/quote]

Thank you.  I see a lot of posts online about the long commute, but most were before the station got constructed.  Can't really find info now, or if google estimates are accurate.  Thank you for the info about child care.  I was almost ready to give up on the area because a friend told me that that there are times where school is dismissed early, or there may be other reasons where you have to come get them before work ends, so working an hour away may not be a good idea. My work is indeed near the Orange (and Red) line.[/quote]

https://www.wmata.com/

The link would take you to the WMATA page. You can use the trip planner to see what a trip might look like from any Metro station. I ran a route from Herndon Metro to Foggy Bottom at 7 AM and it projects 41 minutes on the Metro. Toss in time driving to the station and the commute to your building and call it an hour. That doesn’t strike me as awful, especially since you can read or relax on the train. You should be able to get a seat on the way to work because you will be closer to the start of the line.

There are also busses that you can take non-stop from the Pentagon to Herndon or the 5A which runs from Rosslyn Metro to Dulles with a stop at one of the Metro stops, it used to be Herndon but I am not sure if it moved to Weihle. I say this because there are back ups in case of Metro weirdness.

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