[Archived] City of Alexandria Seeks Community Input on Transit Vision Plan for Bus Network

For Immediate Release: October 11, 2018

The City of Alexandria, DASH Bus and other regional transit partners are seeking community input to develop a new vision for the Alexandria transit network. The Alexandria Transit Vision (ATV) Plan will redraw the local bus network to better serve current and future transit demand, and to better reflect community priorities for transit service. The City’s DASH system and other bus operators within Alexandria connect a variety of neighborhoods and transit users to places where they work, live and shop, in addition to key transit connections such as Virginia Railway Express (VRE), Amtrak and Metrorail.

The ATV Plan will involve three rounds of civic engagement to ensure that concerns and ideas of the Alexandria community are heard, recognized and incorporated into the development of a future transit network. The first round of outreach, starting this fall, will be especially critical as it will help the project team define community transit priorities and ATV Plan objectives.

The following civic engagement opportunities this fall will be used to gain feedback about key choices that will influence the development of potential bus networks:  

• Online Transit Choices Survey (in English and Spanish)
• Pop-up outreach at various community events and transit stations in October
• Two public workshops focusing on transit priorities and tradeoffs:
  • October 16, 7 to 9 p.m., Dr. Oswald Durant Memorial Arts Center (1605 Cameron St.)
  • October 18,  7 to 9 p.m., Samuel Tucker Elementary School (435 Ferdinand Day Drive)

For more information on the ATV Plan, public workshops, pop-up events and the Transit Choices survey, visit alexandriava.gov/Transit.

For media inquiries, contact Andrea Blackford, Senior Communications Officer, at andrea.blackford@alexandriava.gov or 703.746.3959.