Residents Want More Bus Service, But How and Where Remain the Question

Community offers feedback to proposed Fairfax County Connector routes, which will launch with the opening of the Silver Line later this year.

Vienna and Tysons area residents want Connector bus services in their communities, but residents don’t agree on how they want the routes to run once the first half of the Silver Line opens at the end of 2013. During a two-hour meeting at Westbriar Elementary School, Fairfax County Department of Transportation officials presented a series of proposed modifications to bus service to and from Silver Line stations. But residents raised concerns about route layouts, bus frequency, parking facilities and more. The meeting was one of several planned this week and over the next few months as the Board of Supervisors looks to approve bus service changes by May. The county’s 2010 Transit Development Plan recommends 12 new routes be added to Tysons, …

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