Meeting for widening beltway and 270 at BCC last night
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Anonymous
I agree. Imagine how much worse the roads will be if Amazon comes to the area. Tax the drivers and make them consider public transit. |
Anonymous
| There is not one example where widening roads omproved congestion or improved quality of life |
Anonymous
| Why don't they do a double level |
Anonymous
+1 more expensive, but then how much would they spend on "eminent domain"? |
Anonymous
We added the ICC and traffic has not lightened up. |
Anonymous
No one wants the beltway in the backyard and close to their parks and schools. The whole idea is just crappy all around. There’s no reason to ‘Emi any domain ‘ the beltway into people’s neighborhoods except for consistency poor policy and shortsighted decisions on the part of the politicians from the last 10-15 years. |
Anonymous
It is only expensive because people are not footing the bill for the roads when they use them. |
Anonymous
IMO metro will only fix it if there is a line that goes down to VA but not through DC. That takes way too long to get to Reston for example. They need a line down the 270 corridor, connect through Tysons. If they did that, I better ridership would go up. |
Anonymous
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It's absurd the beltway is only four lanes wide in each direction.
The current design was for a region with a population 1/3 of what we have now, but we expect the road to handle it. Ridiculous. It should be at least 6 lanes in each direction |
Anonymous
It's 5 lanes in each direction for chunks of it. Stop trying to bring more people to the DC area would help, we don't need more population. There's no way to make 6 lanes each direction for some parts of the Beltway in Montgomery County without condemning a hospital as well as other very expensive property. |
Anonymous
| I would much rather see improvements in metro. A line from white flint to Montgomery mall to Tysons would be amazing. Then expand metro beyond Shady Grove to go out to Clarksburg then Urbana. |
Anonymous
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How does development like near Twinbrook metro take the possible widening of 270 into account? Just saw that a new Wegman's will be built at Twinbrook metro station development. Would that be impacted by Hogan's plan? Do they just ignore the possibility unless/until it is implemented and then figure out how to adapt? Isn't there a lot of development going on in all these "sectors" to improve "walkable, transit-oriented communities" near metros (many also near 270 and 1 on beltway)? Will a lot of them be built or in-progress if/when Hogan's plan moves forward?
http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/2018/Wegmans-Is-Coming-to-Twinbrook-Development/ http://storereporter.com/breaking-news-wegmans-way-rockville-pike/ |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
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What about doing somethign different, not ugly and a little bit beautiful for a change?
Just imagine putting a monorail Disney World style on both sides of the I270 and 495 going over the shoulders on each side? All it take is few beams here and there, almost zero footprint... would not require to destroy anything to widen the 270. and frequent fast trains could solve a LOT Of problems. We could even start planting some serious floral stuff underneath to make our driving experience much more pleasurable  .
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Anonymous
| Or perhaps the monorail could fit just over the divider between the oposite direction lanes? |