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In article <2sqd6k$2j6@clarknet.clark.net> richdean@clark.net (Richard Dean) writes:
>dmitry pruss (pruss@alw.nih.gov) wrote:
>: Calm down - the widening of *your* spur won't even start in 2 years (it's
>: another spur which's being done)
>
>
>Yeah, the bozos who design the roads (and those who fund them, too) wouldn't 
>want to do anything REAL to alleviate traffic.

And why should they? 

Everyone knows that the more roads are built, the more cars fill them. So
it's a very smart recipee indeed - to place a bottleneck once in every
10-20 miles of a highway ... to let people breathe in between, at least.

In Bethesda, folks erect barriers to make roads less driveable. In Cabin
John, they haul logs to block intersections (too poor people to make it
legally like in Bethesda ;-) 

Alas - until roads remain public property, it all remains half-measures.

As to 270 S spur and an ajacent stretch of 495, they are even worse off -
they fell to Marylandish Virginiaphoby. Why, indeed, would MD fund a road
which would let either residents or jobs to escape to VA, and the VAn noise
and pollution to come to MD ??? 

Just notice, the Eastern spur of I-270 used to be unpassable - when it had
2 lanes W of Old Geo rd and only ... 1 lane East of it. Now it will get 4/3
lanes there. The Southern spur will remain a 2-laner for years to come. 

		D 
They should've widened the 
>spurs when they widened 270 years ago.  Makes little sense to have people 
>speeding to a stop at the split.  
>
>On that note... why, why, why, does 495 lose a lane just before River 
>road (outer loop), and then regain it *at* River Road?  This causes TONS 
>of traffic when people merge into and then out of the right lane. Same 
>deal at the GW parkway and Key Bridge... sheesh.
>


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