So the American legion bridge incident last week

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Anonymous wrote:Forget the outer bridge. Time for the inner tunnel.

LOL by the time that happens we will have teleportation booths instead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Point of rocks bridge (15) also needs replaced badly.

Not unless they also fix the horrible one-lane-each-way road that feeds it from Leesburg.

[Anonymous]

A second crossing would be great for Germantown, Boyds, Gaithersburg, and Rockville. It would be great from a commute standpoint for Potomac and Darnestown.

Potomac residents fear that it will require widening of River Road. The houses along River Rd have front yards larger than most close in neighborhood blocks so they could fit another two lanes but there is very little traffic that far out. The residents don't want to love the country/horse farm feel even though most of the horse farms moved further into the agri preserve years ago.

[Anonymous]

A second crossing would be great for Germantown, Boyds, Gaithersburg, and Rockville. It would be great from a commute standpoint for Potomac and Darnestown.

Yes! Think about the commute from Sterling/Ashburn to Rockville. It takes over an hour on a good day. As the crow flies, it should take twenty minutes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

A second crossing would be great for Germantown, Boyds, Gaithersburg, and Rockville. It would be great from a commute standpoint for Potomac and Darnestown.

Yes! Think about the commute from Sterling/Ashburn to Rockville. It takes over an hour on a good day. As the crow flies, it should take twenty minutes.

Yeah, 20 minutes and lots and lots more people will choose that.

Then it won't be 20 minutes anymore.

[Anonymous]

Hahahaha.

Yes, so many people around here want another bridge crossing, but it's not going to happen. First, you need to have MD and VA state governments and then county governments all in agreement on having the bridge and funding the local feeder roads that will get to and from the bridge. Then you have to have federal highway support for the bridge. It will be very, very expensive and you will need to have lots of commitments from every one of those jurisdictions to make it happen. Then it will require decades of studies on environmental impact, design, planning and cooperation. Take a look at the history of the ICC and the Purple Line programs and those were only state and county cooperating with the federal highway administration. Now add in a second state and a second county government to make those happen.

Even if all five of the governments were on-board, it would likely take 2-3 decades to get to the point of breaking ground on the project. It's unlikely to be available anytime in most of the working lives of everyone on this board. Maybe when our children are working in this area, but it will not be in time to bring relief to anyone currently working in the area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hahahaha.

Yes, so many people around here want another bridge crossing, but it's not going to happen. First, you need to have MD and VA state governments and then county governments all in agreement on having the bridge and funding the local feeder roads that will get to and from the bridge. Then you have to have federal highway support for the bridge. It will be very, very expensive and you will need to have lots of commitments from every one of those jurisdictions to make it happen. Then it will require decades of studies on environmental impact, design, planning and cooperation. Take a look at the history of the ICC and the Purple Line programs and those were only state and county cooperating with the federal highway administration. Now add in a second state and a second county government to make those happen.

Even if all five of the governments were on-board, it would likely take 2-3 decades to get to the point of breaking ground on the project. It's unlikely to be available anytime in most of the working lives of everyone on this board. Maybe when our children are working in this area, but it will not be in time to bring relief to anyone currently working in the area.

Unless the traffic is so bad the federal government decides they need it in the interest of national security.

[Anonymous]

Md doesn't want a bridge. Not much you can do if one side doesn't want a bridge.

[Anonymous]

What happened last week?

[Anonymous]

Unless the traffic is so bad the federal government decides they need it in the interest of national security.

Or any other kind of emergency.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What happened last week?

About the worst thing, short of the bridge collapsing, that could have happened. A fuel tanker crashed on the American Legion Bridge.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/397573447-video

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happened last week?

About the worst thing, short of the bridge collapsing, that could have happened. A fuel tanker crashed on the American Legion Bridge.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/397573447-video

Wasn't it prior to the bridge--on the Virginia side? It blocked almost all lanes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happened last week?

About the worst thing, short of the bridge collapsing, that could have happened. A fuel tanker crashed on the American Legion Bridge.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/397573447-video

Wasn't it prior to the bridge--on the Virginia side? It blocked almost all lanes.

Yes, the Virginia side. Blocked all lanes of the inner loop for 12 hours and half of the outer loop as well.

Meanwhile, the Beltway was closed again today after a tractor trailer fire near Springfield. Appears to be open again, though?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never going to happen in the agricultural preserve of MoCo, which is the only option, pretty much.

Forget it.

A better option would be another identical crossing right next to the current one, use both, that way, if anything happened on one span all the traffic could use the other. A crash won't shut down both spans.

Oh hell no. Induced demand. Will make all state roads that feed into both bridges on both sides complete hellholes.

And your Civil Engineering degree is from where?


Ah, don't have one? Yeah, I could tell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Md doesn't want a bridge. Not much you can do if one side doesn't want a bridge.

I'm in Maryland and I want a bridge. It is irresponsible to have only one (in terms of safety/terrorism, etc.) AND I get sick of sitting and sitting in traffic from Democracy Blvd south, waiting for folks to get into Virginia, where they finally have lanes to move into. For all of you who hate roads, take the Metro and get out of the way...