A brand-new parking garage sits between Sentara hospital and Wegmans in Woodbridge. It was sold as a major win for transit and drivers. Two years later, it’s still mostly empty — and nearly impossible to reach on foot or by bike.

Community advocate Kevin Parker joins Uriah Kiser on the Potomac Local News Podcast to walk through exactly what he found. Parker wrote about the garage for Greater Greater Washington after watching groups of people carrying plastic bags walk in the roadway across the busy Opitz Boulevard bridge over I-95. The same stretch serves the new homeless navigation center and the relocated OmniRide local bus hub.

The garage was originally tied to a Potomac Nationals baseball stadium that never happened. Supervisors warned years ago it would be underutilized. The bus transfer point was later moved there anyway, forcin ...