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Bentley wrote in message ...
>To say that a highway doesn't solve "any" problems is simply absurd, and
>requires an absurd response.

Maybe so, but I don't recall saying highways don't solve "any" problems.
People like you appear to be blind to the possibility of anything other the
building of more roads and nothing else.  I like roads, but I think that
simply building roads to accomodate traffic without a whole range of urban
and land use planning (with real teeth) to go along with it is not going to
solve congestion problems.  The capacity on any new roads in DC would most
likely soon be devoured be new traffic.  (This has been the case elsewhere
and I see no reason why it would not be true for DC as well).  Unless
someone says no more office parks, strip malls, and housing development
spread all over the next 50,000 acres of open space on the fringes, traffic
is never going to stop getting worse.  At a bare minimum, the developers of
this sprawl type development should foot 100% of the cost of the traffic
they generate system wide.  As it is today, they can pawn off the costs on
others (in the form of higher/diverted gas taxes and congestion) while
reaping the full benefits of there developments.  If they had to shell out
the hundreds of millions needed for new/expanded freeways to serve the
traffic they generate, this type of development would screech to a halt.

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