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Except to get to those metro stations, I would have to travel 30 minutes in the morning in the opposite direction of where I am going and use neighborhood road cut through just to make it to the station in 30 minutes from my location in Alexandria City.  But the King St and Braddock Rd stations are only a 10 minute drive.  With the bus, why should I spend 40 minutes on the bus just to spend another 30 on the metro?

[b]Now if they put in parking at Potomac Yards, I would see more incentive to use metro.[/b] But then again, the cost of metro is high enough at this point for round trip during rush hour that I could just pay to drive downtown and park and the difference between costs is pretty small.

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So if there was a parking garage at PY, you wouldn't use it anyway. That might be one hint why they won't build it.  Note also, if you did use it, it would draw you to drive in to a dense area, which makes no sense. Plus putting a big parking garage right next to the station would both preclude putting offices/apts at that site, and also make it less pleasant for people from slightly further to walk there.  [/quote]

I think you can't read.  The FP clearly says that it would be an incentive to use Metro.  I highlighted the statement to help you out.  Now the FP also indicates that cost would be a factor and I agree that it should be.  We want to ENCOURAGE people to take metro, not discourage it.  We should make parking as low cost as feasible to further that effort.

Of course, much of what you're saying, PP, is problematic.  On the one hand you don't like a garage to handle current capacity because it would be "less pleasant" yet on the other hand you are, instead, suggesting that they build a new building drawing even more people into the area and which would be even "less pleasant." How does that even make sense?  Well, I know to you it makes sense but the rest of us are logical and disagree.[/quote]

Many of the people who go to a new office building will take transit, some will walk or bike. Everyone headed to a garage will drive. That is why generally metro garages are not put in dense areas, buildings are put there instead. FCDOT fought to keep metro garages away from the Tysons SL stations. The best place for metro garages is end of line stations, in less walkable areas. Like Huntington.

BTW, by express bus plus metro I can get from West Alexandria to L'Enfant plaza in about 40 minutes. Your ride in for the bus option is not warranted. [/quote]

Uh, PP, you're arguing with so many people that you're not keeping us all straight.  And I agree with the poster that 40 minutes (walk to stop, wait for bus, ride bus, wait in traffic to get down Duke or King, offload at KS Metro) is an accurate estimate since you asked.  We definitely need a garage for people like me and the other poster who would like to use Metro.

It seems with your argument we can't win for losing.  You slam us because we don't take Metro but you won't concede that we need parking in order to do so.

People like you (NIMW - Not In My World) are worse than NIMBYs.  At least a NIMBY is defending territory.  You are defending a lifestyle that only you live and you cannot imagine anyone else living differently.[/quote]

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