How bad will Georgetown Pike be during school drop off hours in McLean?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously - WTH was with Georgetown Pike today? Over an hour to get to Back to School Night at Cooper MS and I still missed most of it. Is that what rain does to people. What a disaster.

+1

From 5:30 to 8:30 it was straight gridlock, complete with the seemingly obligatory box blocking. Why can't Maryland find a way to either employ their people or fund a bridge to help them get to work? They are really screwing over their own people.

+2
Prime example of why this proposal should be enacted.

OK then can we ban VA drivers from the Clara Barton Parkway in the evenings too? I was late to BTSN too and counted over 17 VA drivers taking the right lane and then cutting in front of the line at the Glen Echo Turnaround which slowed down everyone.

[Anonymous]

I got this email from one of the schools on Old Georgetown Pike:

"the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) and Fairfax County are considering closing the ramp to northbound Interstate 495 from Georgetown Pike during peak afternoon traffic hours (1:00 - 7:00 pm) on weekdays. The ramp closure would be implemented on a four-month pilot basis, with potential to become a long-term traffic-management solution."

You Marylanders will have to find another way

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe the FCPS board should rethink whether increasing the enrollment at Cooper was such a brilliant idea? Send the AAP kids all back to Longfellow!

Cooper was under capacity in terms of enrollment. And not sure having buses traverse from this side of Mclean to the other side of McLean for Longfellow was helping our areas transportation woes any. Plus, most of Cooper's kids ride buses anyway.

By under capacity you mean the trailers next to the school are not full of students?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe the FCPS board should rethink whether increasing the enrollment at Cooper was such a brilliant idea? Send the AAP kids all back to Longfellow!

Cooper was under capacity in terms of enrollment. And not sure having buses traverse from this side of Mclean to the other side of McLean for Longfellow was helping our areas transportation woes any. Plus, most of Cooper's kids ride buses anyway.

By under capacity you mean the trailers next to the school are not full of students?

Not sure concentrating more people around a problematic intersection is the best plan either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe the FCPS board should rethink whether increasing the enrollment at Cooper was such a brilliant idea? Send the AAP kids all back to Longfellow!

Cooper was under capacity in terms of enrollment. And not sure having buses traverse from this side of Mclean to the other side of McLean for Longfellow was helping our areas transportation woes any. Plus, most of Cooper's kids ride buses anyway.

By under capacity you mean the trailers next to the school are not full of students?

Longfellow has more students than Cooper and no interest in reversing the School Board’s decision to move the AAP kids in the Langley pyramid to Cooper.

[Anonymous]

It is not up to Longfellow

My guess is these students will someday again go to Longfellow

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is not up to Longfellow

My guess is these students will someday again go to Longfellow

You can “guess” all you want. It’s not going to happen. The Longfellow and Kilmer neighborhoods are only getting more popular, so no one at Cooper is going to be sent back there. Your kids can handle trailers, just like many Kilmer and Longfellow kids have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is not up to Longfellow

My guess is these students will someday again go to Longfellow

Wouldn’t it have been better to bring back the aap kids after the Cooper renovation is completed?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is not up to Longfellow

My guess is these students will someday again go to Longfellow

Wouldn’t it have been better to bring back the aap kids after the Cooper renovation is completed?

Better for whom? Kilmer and Longfellow each had, and still have, many more kids than Cooper.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While the Cooper event was a contributing factor, I the the actual causes were Beltway accidents, rain and oh yea- too many MD drivers using our local roads to avoid paying tolls on the DTR.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can Fairfax Police install a camera at the intersection of Balls Hill and Georgetown Pike and ticket all MD drivers who are in intersection when light not green?

+100 - and install speed cameras along the GTP too. Pretty soon our transportation coffers would have a surplus - thanks to Maryland drivers.

+200
And ticket the MD drivers who take up both lanes on eastbound GTP - even the through lane - when they plan on turning left to get onto the beltway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe the FCPS board should rethink whether increasing the enrollment at Cooper was such a brilliant idea? Send the AAP kids all back to Longfellow!

Cooper was under capacity in terms of enrollment. And not sure having buses traverse from this side of Mclean to the other side of McLean for Longfellow was helping our areas transportation woes any. Plus, most of Cooper's kids ride buses anyway.

By under capacity you mean the trailers next to the school are not full of students?

+1
They had to add another mod unit this year because there were so many kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe the FCPS board should rethink whether increasing the enrollment at Cooper was such a brilliant idea? Send the AAP kids all back to Longfellow!

Cooper was under capacity in terms of enrollment. And not sure having buses traverse from this side of Mclean to the other side of McLean for Longfellow was helping our areas transportation woes any. Plus, most of Cooper's kids ride buses anyway.

By under capacity you mean the trailers next to the school are not full of students?

+1
They had to add another mod unit this year because there were so many kids.

Poor snowflakes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe the FCPS board should rethink whether increasing the enrollment at Cooper was such a brilliant idea? Send the AAP kids all back to Longfellow!

Cooper was under capacity in terms of enrollment. And not sure having buses traverse from this side of Mclean to the other side of McLean for Longfellow was helping our areas transportation woes any. Plus, most of Cooper's kids ride buses anyway.

By under capacity you mean the trailers next to the school are not full of students?

+1
They had to add another mod unit this year because there were so many kids.

Poor snowflakes.

The point - since you missed it - was that Cooper was never under capacity to begin with. And now it's over capacity, just like Longfellow and Kilmer. Happy now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe the FCPS board should rethink whether increasing the enrollment at Cooper was such a brilliant idea? Send the AAP kids all back to Longfellow!

Cooper was under capacity in terms of enrollment. And not sure having buses traverse from this side of Mclean to the other side of McLean for Longfellow was helping our areas transportation woes any. Plus, most of Cooper's kids ride buses anyway.

By under capacity you mean the trailers next to the school are not full of students?

+1
They had to add another mod unit this year because there were so many kids.

Poor snowflakes.

The point - since you missed it - was that Cooper was never under capacity to begin with. And now it's over capacity, just like Longfellow and Kilmer. Happy now?

Your “point” is inaccurate.