The Falls Church Insider All About the City of Falls Church, Virginia, For & By The Folks Who Live & Work There

As I mentioned the other day the City Council is considering an ordinance that would move the City elections from May to November.  It seems like the main reason to make this change is because more people would vote.  Many more people in the City vote in November elections than in May elections.  Most people [...]

The City of Falls Church holds local elections every other May.  During these elections half of the City Council and School Board members are elected to 4 year terms.  The next election is currently scheduled for May, 2010.  Apparently it has been this way for a long, long time (I think the elections used to [...]

The City of Falls Church has a great Farmer’s Market every Saturday morning - 52 weeks a year! My kids and I stop by almost every week (and probably spend more money than I should). During the summer the crowds get fairly big but it’s never overwhelming.
This weekend I recorded some audio while [...]

I have been a member of the City of Falls Church Economic Development Authority since earlier this year and I keep meaning to post recaps of our monthly meetings.  In an effort to actually do that I’m going to keep them kind of short.
This month our chairman, David Tarter, once again pulled together and interesting [...]

Two recent issues floating around the City over the past few months have led me to an idea about implementing a transit solution that would actually be beneficial to the City.  I’ll explain my idea here.
Recently there has been discussions going on in Arlington about reconfiguring the East Falls Church Metro station.  There are many [...]

Yesterday, over lunch, we had a special EDA meeting to discuss the GEORGE bus situation.  Normally the EDA meets just once per month but we didn’t get to talk about GEORGE in our March meeting and with our April meeting pushed back by a week to accommodate Spring Break we wouldn’t have had time to get any [...]

My plan was to have two more posts in this series on GEORGE.  This post was going to be a fun one kicking around various grand ideas for a modern solution.  But I’m starting to burn myself out on the GEORGE issue and the City Council is moving through the process quickly (they had a [...]

We’re told that if the GEORGE bus is “defunded” (which I assume means “shut down”) the City can save about $450,000 each year.  I think I read somewhere that the annual operating costs of the bus is along the lines of $580,000 - so I’m not sure where the discrepancy is.  We’d obviously lose the [...]

As I mentioned in my last post, the current GEORGE configuration seems geared toward taking residents to the Metrorail stations to commute out of the City.  What other purposes could GEORGE serve?
The bus could allow non-residents to commute to their jobs in the City via Metrorail.  The City has been working for years to increase [...]

Last week George Southern (no relation to GEORGE bus) wrote over at the Falls Church Times that the City of Falls Church GEORGE bus system was potentially on the chopping block.  At last night’s City Council meeting, City Manager Wyatt Shields did in fact recommend ending the GEORGE bus service.  The bus service is expensive [...]