So twice a week makes you more of an expert than those of us who've driven it daily over decades.
Yeah. Try again.
Proposal to Widen the BW Parkway, I495, & I270
- Thread starter Rommey
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So twice a week makes you more of an expert than those of us who've driven it daily over decades.
Yeah. Try again.
Liberty Bacon
Cool beans, troll boy. Soon 60....I have to appreciate being called a "kid"....even by a complete moron like you.
Yep..I sure don't miss the "good ole days" when massive backups at the WW were almost guaranteed...I commuted regularly to meetings at ONR, various Crystal City locations, and Carderock...from the mid 80s.
Rommey
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Thanks for the links. As best I can tell they admit there will be a increase in traffic but only at a percentage of increased capacity, due primarily to the toll function curbing the growth to make the road no longer congested.
Well except for the flooding being a indirect result of the lack of zoning laws...
Rommey
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So is your commute better or worse now than it was before the new bridge? I assume you still come up RT5...do you think your drive will improve, remain the same, or get worse once Brandywine/Accokeek Road intersection gets upgraded?
Since you also don't like the governor's proposal, is it your opinion that nothing should be done on those roads? Just keep the status quo? At what point, in your opinion, should something be done to those roads? I realize you don't use them so it doesn't really affect you, but there are millions of others in the state that these roads affect. There are plenty of roads being upgraded that you'll probably never see. Maybe the governor should have checked with you first before these projects started.
It's just as irritating as it's ever been.
It's all about the marketing. Build/expand the roads. Like I said, I couldn't care less (well except for the tax dollars it will cost). Just don't sell it as a way to alleviate traffic and be honest: the purpose is to grease the skids for development.
PeoplesElbow
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Damn them, they plan on developing the vast stretches of forest and farmland around the beltway eh?
Or, as you yourself mentioned, areas a couple of hours away:
:shrug:
PeoplesElbow
Well-Known Member
So what development could widening the BW Parkway ahd the Beltway bring about? I doubt that there is much new to develop between Baltimore and DC, is that for the people that want to live in charm city and commute to DC? I find that an unlikely scenario. Widening the beltway, so it opens up development in Virginia, at Maryland's expense? Another scenario that I doubt.
The only one of the three that could possibly lead to more development would be I-270 if they wanted to open it up to more people on the other side of Frederick. That is really pushing it because in the early morning on the weekend (ie no traffic) it takes over 2hrs to get from Frederick to downtown DC. I suppose that is possible because I know someone who lives in West Virginia that commutes to Germantown, what a horrible life that is.
Ah right. The troll that trolls for trolling sake. Doesn't matter what issue, he has to stake out a wrong position and start swearing at people who prove him wrong.
black dog
Free America
I have a friend that commuted from on top of a mountain at Harper's Ferry WV to Bonafiant St in downtown Silver Spring for better that 20 years. Before that he did the same from Martinsburg,WV he rode the train when living there. He retired just this summer.
High Speed rail should heve been built to Hagerstown at least 25 years ago along the 270 connector and from Balt ( RT 70 ) to 270.
Been through Tysons Corner recently? Development is the engine that keeps everything going. Follow the money.
Well you're projecting again. Nothing new there.
You gotta understand little troll, not everybody lives off the effort of others like you do. Some of us actually have to do something productive for a living so that the government can take a bigger bite to throw money under your Bridge to you.
Uh huh.
And I bet you're the best damn floor sweeper and knob polisher the Department of Education has ever seen! You go boy.
littlelady
God bless the USA
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You just lost your cred here. Congrats! Your post/this post sealed it. I am not going to say who you are, but I know.
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Rommey
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You're one of those drivers that go 50MPH in the left lane, aren't you?