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Parking and other Transportation Options in The Village at Shirlington

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With its established café culture, live theater and pedestrian promenade, Shirlington has become a popular destination in Arlington. For those who drive to Shirlington, parking is plentiful. There are 134 on-street parking spaces and over 2,400 off-street parking spaces located in the surface lot and garages. (See the chart below.) Four of Shirlington’s garages share their parking so that the spaces available to office workers during the day are available for public parking and retail employees during evenings and weekends. During the weekdays there are 879 public parking spaces and on evenings and weekends there are 2,446 public parking spaces. Click on the image on the right to enlarge the map. Note that some of the garage entrances are located on side streets.
Public Parking In Shirlington's Parking Lot and Garages
Garage/Lot	Weekdays	Evenings/Weekends
Campbell Garage	415	415
Randolph Square Garage	200	706
Quincy Tower Garage	150	868
Surface Lot	114	114
Shirlington Garage	0	251
WETA	0	92
Totals	879 Spaces	2,446 Spaces

Besides driving your own car, there are other ways to get to and from Shirlington. The Shirlington Bus Station, located at S. Quincy and S. Randolph Streets, offers direct bus service via ART and Metrobus to Tysons Corner; Greater Arlington, including all Arlington Metro stations; the Pentagon; Crystal City; Landmark and Lincolnia. Bicyclists can use the W&OD bike trail and park at the Bus Station’s covered bike lot. A Zipcar is also available on S. Quincy St. in front of the WETA building.

The Village at Shirlington Open Houses on Parking

On Thursday, April 7, 2011, 56 people came to the Shirlington library to attend an open house on "Parking in the Village at Shirlington," sponsored by Arlington County. Of the attendees 33 were residents, and 23 represented Shirlington Village businesses. The four-hour open house was split between one afternoon session and one in the evening. The afternoon session drew 39 people, with 17 attending in the evening.

There were 17 presentation boards around the room, describing attributes of Shirlington and its parking. Terry Holzheimer, director of economic development for Arlington County, and Dennis Leach, director of transportation, made brief presentations. Holzheimer emphasized that Shirlington has been an overwhelming economic success story for Arlington County, generating $35 million each year in sales, meals and hotel revenues. Leach noted the large investment that has been made by Arlington County over the past decade in transportation infrastructure for Shirlington: the donation of 2.5 acres of land to allow Shirlington's expansion, the new streets, sidewalks, and traffic lights, and the transit center. (Click here to see the PowerPoint presentation [1.79MB])

Attendees were invited to fill out comment cards. Thirty people did so, four people submitted prepared statements, and several sent follow-up comments via e-mail. Overall, 99 comments were received, covering 33 different topic areas. Please click here to see a summary of comments received.

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