Anonymous
Post 07/16/2016 13:28     Subject: South Arlington schools
Anonymous wrote:The streetcar relates to schools, because we were promised more money for schools once it was cancelled.
Yet they are balking at asking for money to pay for a 4th high school.
What's that all about?


I dont think its money, rather the question is where to put it.

About the only space possible is the Virginia Hospital Center site that the County is planning to swap for. That might be big enough to fit a standard high school. The problem is there are many other interest groups, including most significantly the affordable housing crowd, that want to use that land for different purposes.
Anonymous
Post 07/15/2016 12:57     Subject: South Arlington schools
The streetcar relates to schools, because we were promised more money for schools once it was cancelled.
Yet they are balking at asking for money to pay for a 4th high school.
What's that all about?
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 13:10     Subject: South Arlington schools
This thread has gone almost 20 pages without a hall monitor. If you don't like it, find another thread. Any thread spanning numerous pages will have tangents.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 13:08     Subject: South Arlington schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What does a streetcar have to do with schools?



What does housing policy have to do with schools?
If you don't know the answer, please go back to the beginning of the thread.


If you don't recognize that that this thread has gone far astray, you yourself need to go back to the beginning of the thread, where this question was asked:

South Arlington public schools get a bad rap. Is this deserved? Does the reputation apply to all the elementary/middle/high schools, or are there some good ones?

Nothing about streetcars on Lee Highway.



Wrong again.


If you can't see that there is a deeply ingrained disparity between north and south Arlington, that permeates all facets of our lives, then you've learned nothing from this thread. It's all part and parcel of the same problem.


That topic is worthy of its own thread. It doesn't belong here.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 12:48     Subject: South Arlington schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What does a streetcar have to do with schools?



What does housing policy have to do with schools?
If you don't know the answer, please go back to the beginning of the thread.


If you don't recognize that that this thread has gone far astray, you yourself need to go back to the beginning of the thread, where this question was asked:

South Arlington public schools get a bad rap. Is this deserved? Does the reputation apply to all the elementary/middle/high schools, or are there some good ones?

Nothing about streetcars on Lee Highway.



If you can't see that there is a deeply ingrained disparity between north and south Arlington, that permeates all facets of our lives, then you've learned nothing from this thread. It's all part and parcel of the same problem.


That topic is worthy of its own thread. It doesn't belong here.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 12:36     Subject: South Arlington schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What does a streetcar have to do with schools?



What does housing policy have to do with schools?
If you don't know the answer, please go back to the beginning of the thread.


If you don't recognize that that this thread has gone far astray, you yourself need to go back to the beginning of the thread, where this question was asked:

South Arlington public schools get a bad rap. Is this deserved? Does the reputation apply to all the elementary/middle/high schools, or are there some good ones?

Nothing about streetcars on Lee Highway.



If you can't see that there is a deeply ingrained disparity between north and south Arlington, that permeates all facets of our lives, then you've learned nothing from this thread. It's all part and parcel of the same problem.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 12:12     Subject: South Arlington schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What does a streetcar have to do with schools?



What does housing policy have to do with schools?
If you don't know the answer, please go back to the beginning of the thread.


If you don't recognize that that this thread has gone far astray, you yourself need to go back to the beginning of the thread, where this question was asked:

South Arlington public schools get a bad rap. Is this deserved? Does the reputation apply to all the elementary/middle/high schools, or are there some good ones?

Nothing about streetcars on Lee Highway.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 11:42     Subject: South Arlington schools
Anonymous wrote:I didn't support the Columbia Pike streetcar because I thought it would only benefit developers and nobody else. I thought it would be a massive disaster for traffic, and didn't see how it would be an improvement for riders over the buses currently in place.

I live off of lee highway and wouldn't support a streetcar here either, for the same reasons. I would support an expansion of the bus system that would give us a couple more options direct to DC like South Arlington has. metrorail is my usual form of transportation, but it's nice to have options.


I also opposed the street car because I could see no way it wouldn't be awful for traffic. I'd have been happy to support it if they could figure out how to give it a dedicated lane, which was not the plan. Without a dedicated lane, it's just another way to sit in bumper-to-bumper traffic.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 11:35     Subject: South Arlington schools
I didn't support the Columbia Pike streetcar because I thought it would only benefit developers and nobody else. I thought it would be a massive disaster for traffic, and didn't see how it would be an improvement for riders over the buses currently in place.

I live off of lee highway and wouldn't support a streetcar here either, for the same reasons. I would support an expansion of the bus system that would give us a couple more options direct to DC like South Arlington has. metrorail is my usual form of transportation, but it's nice to have options.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 03:06     Subject: South Arlington schools
Anonymous wrote:What does a streetcar have to do with schools?



What does housing policy have to do with schools?
If you don't know the answer, please go back to the beginning of the thread.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 00:04     Subject: South Arlington schools
What does a streetcar have to do with schools?
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 00:00     Subject: South Arlington schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If Lee highway gets a streetcar or any better bus system than the pike I swear I will help start a mutiny. The board said it was too expensive, period. And, I quote from Christian Dorsey, a "linear" transportation system along the pike is not what people need. They need more of a circulator.


It would be part of the Lee Hwy master plan. There is support for a streetcar on Lee Hwy, in theory, to support the added density and redevelopment. A streetcar would be ideal from a transportation and redevelopment point of view. Since there is very little parking on the shoulders of Lee Hwy, it wouldn't see the service slowdowns of the DC streetcar on H Street NE.

A public-private partnership could help fund it.



I can't wait for thhe articles in greater greater Washington and Wapo.
Expect a lawsuit. It will officially destroy "The Arlington Way".
Maybe it's time.
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2016 19:43     Subject: South Arlington schools
Anonymous wrote:If Lee highway gets a streetcar or any better bus system than the pike I swear I will help start a mutiny. The board said it was too expensive, period. And, I quote from Christian Dorsey, a "linear" transportation system along the pike is not what people need. They need more of a circulator.


It would be part of the Lee Hwy master plan. There is support for a streetcar on Lee Hwy, in theory, to support the added density and redevelopment. A streetcar would be ideal from a transportation and redevelopment point of view. Since there is very little parking on the shoulders of Lee Hwy, it wouldn't see the service slowdowns of the DC streetcar on H Street NE.

A public-private partnership could help fund it.
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2016 19:29     Subject: South Arlington schools
Anonymous wrote:If Lee highway gets a streetcar or any better bus system than the pike I swear I will help start a mutiny. The board said it was too expensive, period. And, I quote from Christian Dorsey, a "linear" transportation system along the pike is not what people need. They need more of a circulator.



Wah?!?!
What does that mean? The pike is a line. Not a circle. Pleas help me understand.
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2016 18:45     Subject: South Arlington schools
If Lee highway gets a streetcar or any better bus system than the pike I swear I will help start a mutiny. The board said it was too expensive, period. And, I quote from Christian Dorsey, a "linear" transportation system along the pike is not what people need. They need more of a circulator.