🚀 go-pugleaf

Dave Simpson wrote:
> 
>   Klaatu wrote:
> 
> > Those already exist, in the form of the C&O Canal and towpath on the
> > Maryland side [...]
> 
>   NO.  If you didn't grasp it, reread; I'm talking about rec trail
> access as part of the bridge across the river, not what is provided
> along the river.  "You're off by 90 degrees."

Of course the proposed Rockville-Reston TechWay would include foot and bike
routes transriver.

> 
> > Actually, "screw the homeowners"; they can be compensated financially. But
> > remediation of the Muddy Branch after a cross-through might be damned near
> > unworkable, and preventing the need for remediation while still crossing the
> > site would be astoundingly expensive.
> 
>   There's no reason it should be so expensive.  All that's needed
> is reasonable attention to drainage once the road is built.  It is
> not required to somehow duplicate everything that was replaced.

Um, no, you're missing it; just moing that much heavy construction equipment
around is going to create an astonishing amount of mud. Actually digging in
will create all that much more. Locally, there are some really amazing clays
and silts which in aggregate create some of the most amazing mud you've ever
seen.

> 
> > Oh, there's no question that the area desperately needs a very
> > major crossing from roughly the Montgomery County Airpark to
> > slightly past Dulles Airport.
> 
>   Thanks for the realism.
> 
>   Back from my first road trip (Sunday) since coming here -- 660 miles,

Okay, FWIW, as soon as I get done cobbling it together, there'll be a very
rough first draft JPEG of what I had in mind...

> 
>   Dave Simpson
> 
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