Langley HS PTSA Survey Results on VDOT's Proposed I-495 NB Ramp Closure

[Anonymous]

It frequently takes my dd 45-60 minutes to get to extra curriculars ar Marshall in the 5-6:00 hour. Perhaps we should start a petition to close the ramp to 495 from route 7. It’s unfair for us to be sooooo inconvenienced. There is no other way to get in and out of the school other than using route 7. And if the ramp at Georgetown pike is closed, then the traffic will move to route 7 to get onto the beltway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It frequently takes my dd 45-60 minutes to get to extra curriculars ar Marshall in the 5-6:00 hour. Perhaps we should start a petition to close the ramp to 495 from route 7. It’s unfair for us to be sooooo inconvenienced. There is no other way to get in and out of the school other than using route 7. And if the ramp at Georgetown pike is closed, then the traffic will move to route 7 to get onto the beltway.

I don’t think anyone is paying much attention to the Langley survey but, yes, if the Georgetown Pike exit ramp is closed, traffic around Marshall will just get worse.

[Anonymous]

Or we could discuss how Tysons traffic is causing transportation delays surrounding the area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It frequently takes my dd 45-60 minutes to get to extra curriculars ar Marshall in the 5-6:00 hour. Perhaps we should start a petition to close the ramp to 495 from route 7. It’s unfair for us to be sooooo inconvenienced. There is no other way to get in and out of the school other than using route 7. And if the ramp at Georgetown pike is closed, then the traffic will move to route 7 to get onto the beltway.

Except that GTP is two lanes and Route 7 is eight lanes, so no one on Route 7 is trapped the way that GTP people are trapped. Plus, now most every route, including Route 7 - has sidewalks, but most of GTP does not have sidewalks, not the abutting neighborhoods, so traffic in that particular area is a legitimate safety issue. Apples and oranges. Know what you are talking about before you prattle on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It frequently takes my dd 45-60 minutes to get to extra curriculars ar Marshall in the 5-6:00 hour. Perhaps we should start a petition to close the ramp to 495 from route 7. It’s unfair for us to be sooooo inconvenienced. There is no other way to get in and out of the school other than using route 7. And if the ramp at Georgetown pike is closed, then the traffic will move to route 7 to get onto the beltway.

Except that GTP is two lanes and Route 7 is eight lanes, so no one on Route 7 is trapped the way that GTP people are trapped. Plus, now most every route, including Route 7 - has sidewalks, but most of GTP does not have sidewalks, not the abutting neighborhoods, so traffic in that particular area is a legitimate safety issue. Apples and oranges. Know what you are talking about before you prattle on.

Wow. Who do you think has been fighting sidewalks and the widening of GTP all these years. Hint: not Marshall families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It frequently takes my dd 45-60 minutes to get to extra curriculars ar Marshall in the 5-6:00 hour. Perhaps we should start a petition to close the ramp to 495 from route 7. It’s unfair for us to be sooooo inconvenienced. There is no other way to get in and out of the school other than using route 7. And if the ramp at Georgetown pike is closed, then the traffic will move to route 7 to get onto the beltway.

Except that GTP is two lanes and Route 7 is eight lanes, so no one on Route 7 is trapped the way that GTP people are trapped. Plus, now most every route, including Route 7 - has sidewalks, but most of GTP does not have sidewalks, not the abutting neighborhoods, so traffic in that particular area is a legitimate safety issue. Apples and oranges. Know what you are talking about before you prattle on.

Wow. Who do you think has been fighting sidewalks and the widening of GTP all these years. Hint: not Marshall families.

You are completely uninformed. GTPike is a federally protected history road. Today's families had NOTHING to do with that designation. The prevents any widening. And even if you wanted to widen it, the topography makes it virtually impossible and the amount of land that would have to be seized via eminent domain is ridiculous. Not to mention you'd lose the brand new fire station in Great Falls, much of the businesses there and the library. What a foolish comment you have made. As for sidewalks, there is a sidewalk leading a good portion of the Pike inside the Beltway to LHS. So please stick to topics you might know something about. Clearly this is not one of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It frequently takes my dd 45-60 minutes to get to extra curriculars ar Marshall in the 5-6:00 hour. Perhaps we should start a petition to close the ramp to 495 from route 7. It’s unfair for us to be sooooo inconvenienced. There is no other way to get in and out of the school other than using route 7. And if the ramp at Georgetown pike is closed, then the traffic will move to route 7 to get onto the beltway.

I don’t think anyone is paying much attention to the Langley survey but, yes, if the Georgetown Pike exit ramp is closed, traffic around Marshall will just get worse.

So you say. But you seem concerned about it enough to try and discredit it. All PTSA's in the county of a school district this size carry weight. Their actions speak for many and seeing as the quality of our public schools - and equal access to those public schools - is what draws new employers to Fairfax County, you can bet local officials listen to what the PTA's have to say. They sure did on Full-Day Kindgergarten and the Fairgrade initiative. Langley is the county's top performing high school behind TJ. Yes, I happen to believe local politicians will care that LHS kids have equal access to their school activities. Something tells me that school is filled with plenty of lawyers who could figure out a way to make a discrimination case out of this if traffic prevents their students from partaking in activities that other kids in the country can easily partake in.

[Anonymous]

Well then, let them bring it.

[Anonymous]

Better press release would have been “Rest of DC Region Unanimously Agrees Langley Full of Arrogant A-Holes”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well then, let them bring it.

May not have to if VDOT, Foust, Murphy and Favola figure out a way to get Maryland drivers off our local roads.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Better press release would have been “Rest of DC Region Unanimously Agrees Langley Full of Arrogant A-Holes”

Public school children are "arrogant A-holes" according to you?

How lovely.

Most people would appreciate that the primary responsibility of Fairfax county is to educate children and get them to their schools safely considering the fact that our public schools in Fairfax County receive nearly 60 percent of all county tax revenues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well then, let them bring it.

Sounds like the remedy would be to close Langley, not the ramp.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well then, let them bring it.

Sounds like the remedy would be to close Langley, not the ramp.

Fairfax County just spent $60 million renovating the school. Not going to happen.

[Anonymous]

May not have to if VDOT, Foust, Murphy and Favola figure out a way to get Maryland drivers off our local roads.

+1000!

And yet Maryland continues to do nothing to alleviate the Beltway congestion. Virginia built out Route 28 and Maryland was supposed to meet it to have another route. Never happened. Virginia built the HOT lanes. Maryland refused. That backup of drivers on 495 from Virginia into Maryland begins at 2pm. Something needs to happen.

[Anonymous]

Then get to the meeting on Thursday at McLean HS at 7pm to voice your support for VDOT's proposal to close the NB ramp. Interesting that they made it MHS rather than Langley. Must have figured no one would make the meeting due to commuter traffic clogging the Georgetown Pike!