Comments on: Talkin’ Transit: Tysons and Trains http://www.welovedc.com/2008/08/20/talkin-transit-tysons-and-trains/ Your Life Beyond The Capitol Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:42:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ted http://www.welovedc.com/2008/08/20/talkin-transit-tysons-and-trains/comment-page-1/#comment-832 Ted Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:49:00 +0000 http://www.welovedc.com/?p=5595#comment-832 Regardless of whether the people involved in its creation are yuppie wankers or not, embracing the Circulator policy would greatly aid public transportation users in getting to and from Tysons Corner. Regardless of whether the people involved in its creation are yuppie wankers or not, embracing the Circulator policy would greatly aid public transportation users in getting to and from Tysons Corner.

]]> By: John Athayde http://www.welovedc.com/2008/08/20/talkin-transit-tysons-and-trains/comment-page-1/#comment-811 John Athayde Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:57:27 +0000 http://www.welovedc.com/?p=5595#comment-811 You can't create good walkable things that feel right out of thin air. Anything that gets this "pedestrian" afterthought ends up looking like a Disney main street. You can add all sorts of public transportation, but at the end of the day, Tysons, like the Vegas strip, is a car dominated debacle of 1970s and 1980s architecture and lowest-common-denominator planning. First thing the Tysons committee should do? Read "A Timeless Way of Building" by Christopher Alexander. Why do old downtowns work? Why are they exciting? Because a whole lot of people were involved in their creation, not an oligarchical behind-closed-doors group of yuppie wankers. You can’t create good walkable things that feel right out of thin air. Anything that gets this “pedestrian” afterthought ends up looking like a Disney main street. You can add all sorts of public transportation, but at the end of the day, Tysons, like the Vegas strip, is a car dominated debacle of 1970s and 1980s architecture and lowest-common-denominator planning.

First thing the Tysons committee should do? Read “A Timeless Way of Building” by Christopher Alexander. Why do old downtowns work? Why are they exciting?

Because a whole lot of people were involved in their creation, not an oligarchical behind-closed-doors group of yuppie wankers.

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