Traffic in / around Crystal City has been disrupted for well over a year to put in the open ended and open sided bus stops that cost in excess of a million apiece. The cost is obscene, the timeline is worse. It's maybe a week, ten days max, of actual work to build these things, but construction and traffic disruption has stretched out well over a year. Infuriating.

I swore I would never live in Arlington county because of the ridiculous taxes and public projects but after test driving the commute a few times, I broke down and bought here.

Good news is, there appears to be a temporary outbreak of fiscal sanity; the Artisphere is getting closed, and the Arlington streetcar got cancelled.....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/arlington-signature-loan-approval-differs-from-proposed-artisphere-shutdown/2014/12/18/bfe9c5f4-86ca-11e4-b9b7-b8632ae73d25_story.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/arlington-officials-major-announcement-on-columbia-pike-streetcar-project-at-noon/2014/11/18/ce2a8170-6f38-11e4-8808-afaa1e3a33ef_story.html