Potomac Yard Metro Balloon Testing to Begin Soon
City continues to plug away on Environmental Impact Study process for three potential station locations.
As part of the analyses of three potential sites for a Potomac Yard Metro station, balloon tests will occur over the next several weeks in order to document the visual impacts of the station designs. Tests will occur during a three-week period beginning Monday, with a final test date proposed for Dec. 7. Specific weather conditions are needed to conduct the tests, which will be used to collect photos and video of each of the proposed station locations and to make visual renderings. Balloons will be visible from the George Washington Memorial Parkway for as much as 90 minutes while the tests are being performed. The city reminds drivers that stopping along the parkway is prohibited. The total cost of the testing will not be known until …
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Jon Rosenbaum
11:11 am on Wednesday, November 21, 2012
You conveniently ignore tha fact that the developer gets less density if they do not help pay for the station. For them, no doubt, a station too far from their site would make the current approved density uneconomical and thus they do not feel they would get wsufficient economic benefit by contributing to the station. I find the arguments about destroying the view from the Parkway without logic. … more ›