From a Washington Post article last week:

The outcome also would scuttle years of effort by local officials and developers to transform Tysons Corner, Virginia’s most concentrated jobs center, from a sprawling suburban office park to a Metro-accessible downtown.

I’ve only been in the DC area for three years now. Can someone point me to physical evidence of these “years of effort” to turn Tysons into a “downtown?” Is there any at all? The physical design of Tysons could be changed to improve walking safety and shorten blocks. This wouldn’t be cheap or trivial, but it would certainly be less expensive than five billion dollars. Regardless of whether the area gets Metro service, the design of the area could be redone now without federal money. Throwing a Metro line down Route 7 will not automagically transform Tysons into an urban core.

Disturbingly, the artist rendering in the article depicts a station that would be too far of a walk from most of the current office buildings.

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