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Columbia Pike Transit Initiative COLUMBIA PIKE TRANSIT INITIATIVE PUBLIC COMMENTS FROM FORMAL COMMENT PERIOD: MAY 22, 2012 – JUNE 21, 2012 Arlington County and Fairfax County, in conjunction with the Federal Transit Administration, issued an Alternatives Analysis/Environmental Assessment (AA/EA) for the Columbia Pike Transit Initiative. They conducted public meetings to seek comments on the document on June 6, 2012, at Patrick Henry Elementary School in Arlington and on June 7, 2012, at Goodwin House Baileys Crossroads in Falls Church. Both meetings were identical in format and were conducted from 7:00-9:00 PM. The formal comment period for written comments on the AA/EA was from May 22, 2012 through June 21, 2012. The public submitted comments through many venues, including comment forms, registered speakers’ oral comments at the public meetings, online comment form at www.piketransit.com, emails to [email protected], and mail sent to Columbia Pike Transit Initiative, P.O. Box 3915, Oakton, VA 22124. Attached are the public comments received during the formal comment period by unique commenter identification number (ID #). An index of the commenters and their ID # is shown in Appendix A, which follows the public comments. WMATA 1 600 Fifth Street, NW, Room 6F-16 www.piketransit.com Washington, DC 20001 Columbia Pike Transit Initiative June 2012 Public Comments Received during Formal Comment Period (5/22/12-6/21/12) ID Comment 001.01 Although I am supportive of public transportation in the case of the streetcar I oppose the project. The streetcar is limited in routes, not flexible, extremely costly to build and maintain. The available technologies should be moving us forward not back to the early 1900's. 001.02 The infrastructure is unsightly due to the overhead wires. 001.03 The tracks are dangerous to pedestrians and cyclists. 001.04 The routing to Skyline is a mystery. Last year DISA and their 7,800 employees left Arlington and the Skyline areas to move to Ft. Meade. This negates the need to service Skyline. 001.05 I support the Articulated bus alternative. This option best serves transportation options on the Pike. The bus are flexible, can be added or eliminated more easily, and the cost is substantially less. The bus carries peak traffic during the morning and evening rush hours. During the afternoon buses are quite empty. The flexibility to remove buses as ridership increases/decreases makes them much more responsive then a streetcar could be. 002.01 Aside from the "nicey‐nicey" & "look‐what‐we‐have" aspects of the proposed streetcar system, WHY BOTHER??? Wouldn't a better dedicated bus service suffice? Or, would that not be "toney" enough for Arlington? 002.02 Frankly, with rising property taxes, a noticeable decline in the quality of County services, I vote NO. There's a better way to use the funds. 002.03 I don't see any gain, frankly, for the project other than the photo op when the ribbon gets cut. 002.04 Enough frivolous spending. Use the money to improve existing infrastructure. Arlington's street are lousy!!! 003.01 A trolley along Columbia Pike is a phenomenal waste of tax dollars. 003.02 The road is served heavily by Metrobus and there is no need to supplement that. 004.01 I am completely against the Columbia Pike Streetcar project. The cost is prohibitive and the benefit over buses has never been justified. It will not come anywhere close to being a benefit for the entire county. It is interesting that you discuss "stakeholders." The greatest stakeholders are the taxpayers that will have to pay for this "over the top" program. 004.02 Thanks for having a comment period but given the County Board's history, I have very little faith that they will care if the taxpayers are against "their" project. 004.03 You might want to check on the budget situation of the countries with these lovely streetcar systems. Europe is not doing so well after years of free spending in the name of public good. Notthing is better then living with no debt, or reasonable debt. This streetcar in Arlington is UNreasonable debt and it should be stopped! 004.04 SUre, enhance the busses, and bus stops. Cheaper and just as good. 004.05 Environmental concerns are secondary to economic concerns. We cannot spend our way to clean air etc. It must be done in a fiscally ersponsible way. 004.06 Not sure the Arlington County Board understands those words (fiscally responsible). 005.01 I think the assessment is way off about affects on low‐income people living in the area. One of the arguments in favor of a streetcar is that it encourages people to use mass transit who wouldn't dream of riding a bus. In other words, higher‐income people. Attract them, and what will developers do? Tear down or renovate reasonably priced apartments, and turn them into "luxury" apartments. What happens to people who can't afford them? Tough luck, guess they'll have to move. Page 1 of 108 ID Comment 005.02 Without a separated transit way, I don't see how TSM‐1, TSM‐2, or a streetcar can improve trip times. All get stopped at the same traffic lights and stuck in the same heavy traffic. Or you can add sensors and priority traffic light timing to speed transit vehicles through the lights. But that could be applied to any of the alternatives. 005.03 Given the high costs of streetcars with little or no improvements in trip times, I don't see a benefit. 005.04 Higher capacity? I ride the 16 buses and the ART 45 regularly ‐ they are well used, but rarely SRO. Not sure we need much more capacity, but one of the TSM alternatives can be added at any time if we do. 005.05 Smoother ride? Granted, rails offer a smoother ride than bare asphalt. On the other hand, I'd rather put money into street resurfacing, especially between George Mason Drive and Frederick Street, and improve the ride for cars too. 005.06 I've just returned from the public comment meeting for the Alternatives Analysis/Environmental Assessment (AA/EA) document for the Columbia Pike Transit Initiative. One question that the staff could not answer was "When do we get to vote on this?" The answer is probably that WE don't get to vote on this, but YOU do. Alright, you are my elected representatives, and will get to vote on this on my behalf. 005.07 Here's what I want you to do: First of all, ask careful questions about whether any transit improvements are really needed on Columbia Pike, and who they would benefit. I ride the buses on the Pike regularly (do you?) and they are well used at all hours of every day. Yet, there is rarely standing room only. I suspect that the major beneficiaries would be landowners, not ordinary working folks. I've seen what transit improvements did in Clarendon ‐ sure, it is a vibrant living spot with lots of street life, but I can't afford to live there. I can afford to live along the Pike now, but will I be able to stay here? 005.08 Second, ask questions about funding and cost. I think the AA/EA is overly optimistic about both. If your answer to number one is yes it is needed, ask if the streetcar alternative ‐ which admittedly has advantages over the other alternatives ‐ is worth four times the cost of TSM‐2. I say NO. 005.09 Third, if this is needed at all, I strongly favor TSM‐2. It has the best cost/benefit ratio, yet if it doesn't work out, you can always build something else later. 005.10 As for building ‐ if you build an expensive streetcar without the room to give it a separated guideway, it will get stuck in traffic just like the buses do now ‐ not exactly fast. If you MUST have a track, make it a subway, EL‐train, or monorail, and get it out of the traffic ‐ if you're in for $260M, might as well spend more and do it right. Thank you. 006.01 What is the benefit of a street car that requires tracks and overhead power lines? (pictured in the columbia pike initiative slides) 007.01 The streetcar project is the most lamebrained idiotic thing ever to literally come up the Pike. Give us extra buses ‐‐ thank you for the clean CNG buses we already have, and DO NOT TEAR UP COLUMBIA PIKE for the TOONERVILLE TROLLEY!!! 007.02 Enhanced bus ‐‐ YES!!! 007.03 You have already MORE THAN POLLUTED Arlington by the UBER building of condos ‐ more people flushing toilets (do you really think I EVER want to go back to Harris Teeter at Potomac Yards after that spill???), more people driving‐ NOW you want to tear up ALREADY CROWDED Columbia Pike for that STUPID Streetcar‐‐ wait til ONE gets broken down‐‐ Whee !! Traffic jams comeing out of the wazzooo!! The BUSES ARE FIIINE!! Page 2 of 108 ID Comment 008.01 I want to express strong support for the streetcar option. It is the one that will not only provide needed transit improvements but, more importantly, will spur more development and increases in property values along the Pike. It will do so by attracting more riders than a bus option, which is not perceived as positively by large groups of potential riders, and by signalling to property owners along the Pike that the county is serious about spurring redevelopment and improvement by committing significant capital to a permanent, physical improvement of the transit infrastructure.
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