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Josh Turner wrote:
> That's a specious argument. While traffic congestion is prevalent in any
> area where a large group of people live, that doesn't mean that there is
> "gridlock". DC's lack of adequate roads gives it traffic problems far
> out of proportion to its size/population. This despite the fact that it
> has an admirable public transportation system.

What about Atlanta?  They have a public transit system, but nothing like
Metro.  It's modest by big city standards.  They have more and wider roads
than anyplace I have ever been.  Yet Atlanta (a metro smallers than the DC
metro) has terrible traffic.  (Nobody loves to build roads more than the
Georgia DOT).  They are under a road building ban these days because
pollution from congested traffic has created a severe air quality problems. 
The Wall Street Journal just printed an article calling them the next Los
Angeles.  If 18 lanes on I-75 didn't solve the problem for Atlanta, I don't
know why you guys think a few extra lane miles in DC are going to solve
problems there.

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