Citizens Express Concerns About Construction Impacts of Potomac Yard Metro Station
Project planners hear from citizens at community meeting following briefing on three station alternatives.
Alexandria citizens expressed concerns with the construction of a Potomac Yard Metrorail station that would impact nearby wetlands and the George Washington Memorial Parkway during a community meeting Thursday at Cora Kelly Recreation Center. Project planners with the city used the event to brief the crowd on three build alternatives for a station under evaluation as part of an environmental impact study for the project. A no-build alternative is also being evaluated. It includes improvements to existing transit options in the area. Two of the three station alternatives—an at-grade station located between the parkway and CSX tracks on a new track alignment north of Potomac Greens and an aerial station located west of the CSX tracks almost…
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Whitney Dubinsky
9:50 pm on Tuesday, April 24, 2012
For a nice, unbiased write up on the status of the PY metro. Check out the update in the Arlandrian. http://www.arlandria.org/2012/04/potomac-yard-metro-opponents-cite-gw.html more ›