Fairfax County Transportation Advisory Commission: Dulles Rail Phase I Bus Service Plan

County of Fairfax, Virginia

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Dulles Rail Phase IBus Service Plan

Fairfax County

Transportation Advisory Commission

July 17, 2012

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Dulles Rail Bus Service Plan

•Based on recommendations from Fairfax County’s Transit Development Plan (TDP) and defined by two different components:

– The realignment, enhancement and addition of new feeder service to the new rail stations within Reston, McLean, Vienna and Tysons Corner;

– The implementation of a five-route circulator bus system within Tysons Corner.

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Dulles Rail Bus Service Plan• The complete plan proposes to

– Modify approximately• 22 Connector Routes• 8 Metrobus Routes

– Create up to six new feeder routes to new stations in Tysons Corner

– Eliminate nine Connector routes that will be duplicated by new bus service and/or Silver Line service

– Establish a five route internal circulator bus system in Tysons Corner (Silver Line Circulator)

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Tysons Corner

• Proposed New Connector Routes:– Silver Line Connector (SLC)

• SLC East (Via Jones Branch)• SLC West• SLC Beltway• SLC Central • SLC Greensboro

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Tysons: Conceptual Silver Line Connector Routes

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Tysons Corner• Route modifications

– Routes 401/402: Springfield-Tysons via Gallows Road

– Route 574: Reston to Tysons via Baron Cameron and Leesburg Pike

– Route 981: Tysons to Dulles Airport

• Route Eliminations– Routes 425, 427: Service from West Falls

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McLean• Proposed New Connector Routes

– Route 434: Kirby Road• Kirby Road, Great Falls St to West Falls Church Metro Station

– Route 731: McLean Feeder• Lewinsville Road, Chain Bridge Road, CIA to Tysons Corner

– Route 732: Wolf Trap Shuttle• Trap Road, Leesburg Pike to Spring Hill Metro Station

– Route 733: Northern McLean Feeder• Central McLean, Churchill Road to Tysons Corner Metro

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Vienna Route Modifications

• Modifications– Route 462: Vienna, Park Street, Dunn Loring

Metro Station– Route 463: Vienna, Navy Federal, Dunn

Loring Metro Station

Routes will be modified to serve the Tysons Corner Metrorail Station

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Reston and Herndon• Modifications and enhancements

– Routes: 552, 553, 554, 557, 585: North and South Reston to West Falls Church

– Routes : 950, 980: Herndon to West Falls Church

– RIBS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5: Reston Internal Bus System

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Reston and Herndon• New Routes

– Route 959: Sunrise Valley/Sunset Hills Circulator

• Eliminations – Route 505: West Falls Church to Reston via Sunset

Hills– Route 551: South Reston to West Falls Church – Route 555: Sunset Hills P&R to West Falls Church– Routes 595, 597: Reston to the Pentagon/Crystal City– Routes: 951, 952: Reverse commute service between

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WMATA Metrobus Modifications

– Route 2T: Tysons Corner, Dunn Loring, Vienna– Route 3T: Pimmit Hills, Magarity Road, Griffith Road

to West Falls Church Metro Stn.– Routes 15 K & L: Chain Bridge Road, CIA via Chain

Bridge Rd to Rosslyn Metro Stn– Route 15M: George Mason, Tysons Corner– Routes 23A, B & T: McLean, Crystal City– Route 28A & X: Leesburg Pike

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TimelineFall 2013: Meeting with Board Members

January - June 2013: Meetings with various community groups, stakeholder groups and hold public meetings

July/August 2013: Board approval of plan

September – December 2013: Marketing and implementation

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The Circulator SystemLONG RANGE (2050) Planning study to support Tysons Corner redevelopment and rezoning process

– Design circulator system to support goal of maximizing transit trips/minimizing auto trips

•Identify needed transit preferential treatments – Support a reliable and effective circulator system– Identify required expansion of right of way – may

require additional adjacent land •Silver Line Connector ridership will help determine long term alignment for the CirculatorDepartment of Transportation

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Questions?

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