Finally, a completed site.  The purpose of this site is to act as an exchange of information for the families of Old Courthouse Road.  For the past 10 years, Old Courthouse Road has seen a dramatic increases in traffic volume and speed.  It has been "neglected".  All the while, the make up of our community continues to change.  Orginal owners from the 60s are leaving and young families are taking their place in our community. 

Vienna, VA is one of the most desirable places to live, in fact, it was voted #4 Best Place to Live by Forbes Magazine in 2005.  With its small town feel, many historic sites, top rated school districts, and numerous amenities, it becomes a "must see" for many families looking to move. 

My husband and I moved to Vienna 11 years ago after we got married.  Back then, traffic on OCR is only 2,300 cars a day. Now, volume is close to 12,000 cars a day.  I think the biggest problem is the speed that cars travel. From August 07 to date, Town of Vienna wrote 288 speeding tickets, 8 from Fairfax County.  What's really scary is the number of accidents from August 07 to August 08--13 Accidents!  This is outrageous!

OCR is narrow at the top of the hill as you come down from Tyson's Corner, then it narrows as you travel down hill on a bending road, dog leg right; then widens from Westbriar Dr to Country Club Dr.; at Creek Crossing it narrows again to a beautiful winding road that passes 3 parks; at Arabian, it widens again until you reach the intersection of Beulah, Beulah and Trap.  Policatical boundaries also complicate the matters--Town of Vienna owns both sides of the road from the top of the hill to Fairway Dr., then it splits--half of the road are Town of Vienna residents and half Fairfax county residents.  It does revert back to Fairfax County residents on both sides of the road after Creek Crossing.

In Sept, our community had a Town Meeting with Supervisor Hudgins, Sen Chap Petersen, Del Shannon, Mayor Seeman, VDOT Staff, Chairman Kenney and other government staff.  There were about 140 people who attended the meeting.  Families of this community were able to "vent".  Concerns and Responses were written. 

Because of Fairfax County's shortfall of $50M this year and another $540M for 2009, many programs are being cut.  But this is not an excuse NOT to do anything.  This community deserves a better quality of life, a safe community for all of us to raise our families.

Many of the neighbors emailed me as they have seeing increase in Fairfax County police patrol in the neighborhood for the past 6 days.  This is a step in the right direction.  The list is the next.

Cris Janoski, Chairman
CTCOCR