NEW - Two Options for Potomac Mills Slugs

Thank you Admin for taking the initiative on this messy situation. First of all i appreciate your efforts with this painstaking task of organizing a viable solution. I think its a great idea to utilize what we have left at Potomac Mills by designating a single line instead of 3 separate lines, which would have completely disbanded this lot for sure. Its logical to keep the line with least number of commuters and utilize the 275 available spots properly. Personally i commute to 18th street so both options work for me. The only concern i have is that there are a lot of folks who park and ride buses from this location as well, so what happens with that? 275 spaces may not be enough if buses keep running from this location as they are.

I slug!

Thanks so much to our "slugmaster" for taking the lead on this. And kudos to Aimee (and a friend at work) for the tip on the Harbor lot. Much as it would be convenient for me -- a driver -- to keep picking up folks for the Pentagon from the remaining spaces at Potomac, the "largest line" is just too large for this. Better to leave the downtown folks, whose only other option is an already crammed Horner, with this as their other option, since there are lines for Pentagon and Rosslyn already at Tacketts.

On another note, I received a nice reply from the owner of Rocky Mt. Chocolate. She was not aware of what the Mall was doing and contacted the manager right away to support the commuters, though she got the feeling he didn't care. She was hopeful that Valentines Day would be a big day for her, but the Boycott will likely decrease her sales. Wanted to make sure folks understand that the message is aimed at mall management and not necessarily the businesses at management's mercy. It's important to have an empty parking long at P. Mills on Feb 14, but you can still honor the spirit of the boycott and support small business people like Rocky Mt Chocolate by making your Valentine purchases tomorrow (Saturday) so you can still avoid the mall on Monday the 14th.

My vote would be for option #1.

Jenny

Both my wife and I have been slugging and picking up from Potomac, 1 goes to Rosslyn and the other to Crystal City, and we both are are planning to go to location 1 for Monday. And encourage those going to Crystal City/Rosslyn to use location 1

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Originally posted by soldierguardian

Why can't the abandoned parking lot at Minnieville and Harbor Dr (adjacent to telegraph Rd; near the Tackett's lot)? I estimate that there are around 250 spots there...

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I did talk to PWC and OmniRide on this lot. They said it was only 150 spaces (approx.). The problem seems to be that Tackett's Mill already reaches capacity even when Potomac had all 1000 spaces. True, nobody uses the abandoned lot...yet. Some slug have asked why we don't move either the existing Rosslyn or Crystal City line to the commuter lot next to McDonalds and then start using the Harbor lot as overflow.

Anyway, it just seems to me that we already have a parking problem at Tackett's and moving anything there doesn't provide for a long term solution. That's why I was looking at the Dale City or 123 lots because they still have a lot of available parking that we can start using.

Fall_line - you're right. The way they designed the exit onto Minnieville isn't very convenient. The lot too is is pretty bad shape. It is a good 2 block walk from the lot to McDonalds too. I did ask PRTC about providing bus service to it but they kind of said 'no' because it was too hard to pull into and out of the lot when filled.