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From YouTube: Safetrack
Description
Arlington Director of Transportation talks about the county's response to WMATA's roll out of "Safetrack"
A
B
Truck
is
a
big
deal
for
Arlington
and
the
region.
It
is
a
proposal
to
really
substantially
rebuild
some
of
the
rail,
the
region's
rail
infrastructure
over
the
course
of
about
the
next
nine
and
a
half
months.
Well,
the
metro
rail
system
is
heavily
used
on
an
average
weekday
akari's
over
700,000
people
a
day
and
the
system's
been
expanded,
and
with
all
of
that
ridership
with
that
expansion,
it
is
left
little
time
for
actually
maintaining
the
system
and
keeping
it
in
a
state
of
good
repair.
So
we
have
a
backlog.
B
There
are
15
surges,
ranging
from
a
one-week
too
many
weeks,
and
each
one
requires
some
very
careful
planning.
The
first
surge
starts
june
fourth
and
continues
to
june
sixteenth,
and
then
we
have
a
second
surge.
It
takes
us
to
the
end
of
the
month.
Our
first
step
is
really
working
with
Metro
to
understand
how
much
rail
service
is
being
cut,
then,
once
we
assess
that
working
with
them
to
identify
what
are
the
bus
options
to
fill
in
some
of
those
gaps,
we
then
look
to
our
own
local
art
system
to
see
what
we
can
do.
B
One
of
the
challenges
that
we
have
is
we
only
have
so
much
road
capacity
and
those
are
the
same
roads
that
the
buses
are
on.
So,
if
we're
moving
many
people
onto
shuttle
bus
operations
or
enhanced
or
card
or
bus
operations,
and
then
they
get
stuck
in
traffic,
that
kind
of
defeats
the
purpose,
but
in
Arlington
our
messaging
is
all
about
travel
options.
People
need
to
be
flexible,
they
need
to
plan
ahead
and
they
need
to
think
about
options.
B
They
may
not
have
tried
before
many
of
our
residents
are
our
metro,
rail
writers,
and
so
they
haven't
used
the
bus
or
they
haven't
considered
a
telework
option
or
a
carpool
or
maybe
riding
a
bike
to
their
office
if
they're
close
enough
and
what
we're
doing
is
to
try
to
support
all
of
those
options
be
looking
at
the
website,
we
have
our
own
Arlington
website
with
all
the
information.
That's
Arlington
specific.