As reported today in The Washington Examiner, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors has granted approval for a complete make-over of Tysons Corner.  With the imminent arrival of Metro service and traffic slowing to a glacial pace on Route 7, it’s obvious that something needs to be done.  However, the plan adopted by county leaders on Tuesday seems hastily conceived and will not sufficiently address traffic congestion.

The transportation problem is obvious, but the plan is a grab bag of urban design buzzwords and environmental lip-service which buries the real essence of what is at stake.  Underlying the plan is an assumption that the majority of people who work, shop, and live in Tysons will use mass transit to get there while at the same time choking out visitors and workers from the rest of Fairfax County.