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Town hall meeting on transportation and land use on Saturday with Governor-Elect Tim Kaine! In this email: Come to the meeting with
a comment, idea, or question -- or simply to listen. Families are welcome.
Kaine has pledged to "tackle our transportation problems through restoring
trust in the system and preventing runaway development from clogging up our roads
and ruining our beautiful landscapes." The meeting is your chance to
urge the Governor-Elect to make good on his campaign promises to link land use
and transportation. Stop
the Outer Beltway The Northern Virginia Transportation Authority (NVTA) has included a Loudoun segment of the Outer Beltway in their 2030 plan draft, despite Loudoun Board of Supervisors' Chairman Scott York's objections. They are holding a public hearing on Tuesday, December 6 at 7:30pm. Citizens need to be there to say NO to an Outer Beltway in Loudoun! For more information, you
can attend the open house at 5:00 PM, with a presentation at 6:00 PM on December
6. The public comment period will begin at 7:30 PM. The hearing will be at George
C. Marshall High School in Falls Church. Outer Beltway Segment Approved The Commonwealth Transportation Board voted to support a western route for the new 4 or 6-lane Tri-County Parkway (TCP), which runs directly through land owned by developers—and is right where the developers want to build up to 28,000 new houses. Coverage in the Washington Post. |
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The route, called West 2, runs from Route 234 Bypass/I-66 near Gainesville in Prince William County north to Route 50 in Loudoun, just east of Gilbert's Corner. (On this VDOT map, the route is labeled as segments C and D) This new highway would line up with two major north-south corridors in Loudoun County, the Western Transportation Corrdior and Route 659 Relocated. Either of these two possibilities could become the chosen route of the Outer Beltway in Loudoun, and both would have major impacts on neighborhoods such as Stone Ridge. Brambleton and River Creek. The estimated cost for the TCP is $201 million.
The state doesn't have money for the project, so they are soliciting bids from
private companies to build the highway - which would likely be a toll road. For more information, please
visit VDOT's Tri-County
Parkway page. Directions from the west: From Gilbert's Corner: Directions
to the NVTA Public Hearing |
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Governor-Elect
Tim Kaine added a Loudoun stop on his statewide listening tour on transportation
issues for this Saturday, December 3rd. The town hall meeting is scheduled
for 3:45 PM at the Leesburg Airport Terminal.
While
you sit in terrible traffic on the Greenway/Dulles Toll Road, Rt. 50, and
Rt. 7, officials are moving forward with plans to build a new north-south highway
in Loudoun County that will simply funnel more traffic onto our major commuting
corridors. This expensive north/south highway would make it even harder to get
to jobs in Fairfax and DC.
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