[Scan-DC] A few pictures from my tour of McConnell Center

[Andrew Clegg]

It's off of exit 55 (Fairfax County Parkway) on I-66. The exact address is
4890 Alliance Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030. The facility is brand new, so the
address does not appear in several online mapping utilities. However, it
does appear in Mapquest:

http://tinyurl.com/yj9dgxg

The star on the Mapquest map is a bit off (it's too far up Alliance Dr). If
you click on Aerial View, the building is the first one on the left after
you make a left turn from northbound West Ox Rd onto westbound Alliance
Drive. It's tucked in there between Alliance Dr., West Ox Rd., Lee Highway,
and the Fairfax County Parkway.

The other operations you see there on the aerial view (like the big paved
area at the end of Alliance Dr. near where the star is) also belong to VDOT
and they have a lot of their utility trucks, salt trucks, etc. there.

The building was first opened for occupancy in October 2008, but it wasn't
until Spring or so of this year that they were in full operation.

Cheers,
Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Kitchener [mailto:oldsdoug at hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 10:16 AM
To: w4jecom at w4je.com; scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
Subject: RE: [Scan-DC] A few pictures from my tour of McConnell Center



Excellent!  Many thanks, Andy - great shots.  I like the site, it's a good
layout... might give it a try myself.

Where is the center itself located?

Thanks and merry xmas-

Doug

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> From: w4jecom at w4je.com
> To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:29:38 -0500
> Subject: [Scan-DC] A few pictures from my tour of McConnell Center
>
> Here is a link to a handful of pictures from my tour of the McConnell
Public
> Safety and Transportation Operations Center. This center is used by
Fairfax
> County, Virginia State Police, and VDOT for emergency operations, 911 call
> centers, traffic control, etc. Sorry I don't have close up pictures of the
> radio equipment, but we were not allowed to take pictures on the floor of
> the 911 center. But at least now when I listen to the VSP
> (Arlington/Fairfax), I know where their dispatch is coming from. And for
you
> Fairfax County people, now you know where their dispatch comes from. The
> VDOT controls all the their traffic flow and signage (like HOV lane
> reversals, accident messages, etc) for the northern Virginia area from
here.
> The large emergency operations center room is activated when there is an
> emergency (it was probably activated this past weekend for the snow
storm).
>
> This is a trial account on PBase, a picture hosting site. If you have
time,
> let me know if you do or don't like it.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
> http://www.pbase.com/andrewclegg/mcconnell
>
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