Metro News Release
For immediate release: July 21, 2009
Metro sets public hearing on new Metrobus facility
New facility would replace the Metrobus Royal Street garage
Metro will host a public hearing later this month to receive input on a new bus operations and maintenance facility in Fairfax County, VA.
The hearing will take place at 7 p.m., on Tuesday, July 28, at the Franconia Governmental Center Community Room, 6121 Franconia Road, in Alexandria, VA. An open house will begin at 6:30 p.m.
Metro is proposing a new bus operations and maintenance facility at 7901 Cinder Bed Road in Fairfax County, VA. The proposed bus facility would occupy about half of a 17.4 acre site within the County’s I-95 Industrial Corridor. The project is proposed as a joint development initiative between Metro and a private entity. The private developer would construct the facility and lease the facility to Metro under a “lease-to-purchase” agreement.
The proposed facility is designed to have 160 Metrobuses and several support vehicles. It would include buildings for the maintenance, fueling and cleaning of the buses, parking for the buses, administrative office space, parking for employees and visitors, and other support infrastructure.
All organizations or individuals desiring to be heard with respect to the proposal will be afforded the opportunity to present their views, make supporting statements and offer alternative proposals. In order to establish a witness list, individuals and representatives of organizations who wish to be heard at this public hearing are requested to furnish, in writing, their name, address, telephone number and organization affiliation, if any, to the Office of the Secretary, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, 600 Fifth Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20001 by 2 p.m. on Tuesday, July 28. Alternatively, requests to speak may be faxed to 202-962-1133, or e-mailed to public-hearing-testimony@wmata.com. Please submit one speaker’s name per letter. Lists of individual speakers will not be accepted. Others present at the hearing may be heard after those persons who have registered have spoken. Public officials will be heard first and will be allowed five minutes each to make their presentations. All other speakers will be allowed three minutes each.
Written statements and exhibits may be submitted until 5 p.m. on Friday, August 7, to the Office of the Secretary, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, 600 Fifth Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20001. Alternatively, individuals may send an e-mail to public-hearing-testimony@wmata.com.
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News release issued at 10:27 am, July 21, 2009.