Capital One Tysons gridlock
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Anonymous
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Did they just not do a traffic study when they built the new C1 complex?
I routinely sit in additional traffic of people trying to get into C1 for at least 10-15 minutes on top of my normal commute time. Today it was 20 minutes trying to get through the thunderdome. People blocking the box after the lights are red, stopping in the middle lanes trying to get over because they didn't want to wait in the long line to get into the C1 complex. Let's see some cops ticketing everyone with steep fines or you know, how about the C1 management staggers shifts to make a dent in the mess they created. |
Anonymous
| A lot of MITRE folks are in the office too so I'm sure that's not helping either. |
Anonymous
| Take the metro or the bus |
Anonymous
| One more lane should fix this. |
Anonymous
That would take even longer. I work near where I live so that I'm not sitting on 495 in a hellish commute, been there done that for decades of my youth. Why should I have to sacrifice my 15 minute commute and turn it into a 35 minute commute for one company that didn't plan their office better? I already go to work on Mondays and Fridays just to avoid the traffic they created Tu-Th, because it seems way less of them drive in on those days. Id like to WFH M/F too! |
Anonymous
Hmm. you have a 15 minute commute but spend 20 mins in traffic? Most people would say they have a 30 minute commute and look for other jobs. |
Anonymous
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The distinction is it's a 15 minute commute with normal traffic excluding the cars trying to turn into the C1 complex, it's literally just that one office complex that (on the worst days) can add an additional 20 minutes. It just started getting bad in the past year or so and over the past few months its gotten to the point where I'm complaining about it. That's how I know what my normal commute time is and that this one specific thing is causing it.
So everyone should have to change their job or should they just fix the office complex to allow cats to filter in faster, have people shuttle bus in like Freddie mac, stagger arrival times or anything basically. I don't think that's normal for one office complex to impact the traffic conditions that much, there must have been something missing with designing the intersections or capacity planning. |
Anonymous
| It is just normal Tysons congestion. Tysons has been congested at rush hour in multiple places for at least 35 years. That area by Capitol One was similarly bad in 2018 or 2019, before the new buildings opened. |
Anonymous
This. I went to McLean HS in the late 90s and it was bad then. |
Anonymous
MITRE/NG/Archer/Heming folks have four options to turn right from 123N vs. just two left turns for CapOne. They can also use Magarity from Rt 7 if they really wanted to do so. I doubt that the non-CapOne folks are a problem. |
Anonymous
| The intersection at 123 and Great Falls is also awful lately. |
Anonymous
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I’m guessing OP started post Covid.
It’s always been bad OP. I’m sure Cap1 made it worse but I doubt there is anything you can do. Maybe come in on Mon/Fri when the cap1 folks aren’t there. They all have the same hybrid schedule don’t they? |
Anonymous
| It's getting ridiculous. They need to make some of these lanes straight through and start dishing out points to people who block the box. |
Anonymous
Op has a 15 minute commute when there is no other person on the road to inconvenience them... but when they have to be on the road with the rest of the unwashed masses its 30 and they don't like being so close to the commoners... Any road that crosses rt 7 in tysons especially west of 123 between 3-7pm sucks because so many people block the box Just wait until they plant the casino in tysons. |
Anonymous
| I believe Capital One had mandated T/W/Th in office but has now changed that to 3 days M-Th. Which should theoretically spread things out. This is very recent and may just be my spouse's team, but I believe it's the new policy for many. |