The Beltway is at a complete stand still
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Anonymous
Leesburg bypass was a mess. |
Anonymous
| Did anyone find using apps like Waze helpful yesterday? |
Anonymous
| Just take a look at NoVA and you will see why MD doesn't want another bridge. Its nice out here not like VA which is paved from the district to Leesburg. It is green and quite and peaceful. In addition, the roads that would connect with the bridge cannot handle the likely volume so you'd have to deal with that. Frankly just not worth the trouble. |
Anonymous
| Is it open now? |
Anonymous
| Work in Leesburg and live in Frederick. There was an accident on 15 between Lucketts and Point of Rocks. I went further out and crossed over Brunswick but even Route 7 was tied up until Route 9. |
Anonymous
Even if you were right that most homes will be replaced by high rises - a likely dubious proposition - how does a high rise 2-3 miles from metro, never mind further, help? You still wouldn't be walkable to metro or other transit. Maybe transit options expand somewhat but how do you expand enough so that you still don't have lots of people too far to walk to transit? No doubt density around metros has and will increase, but areas non-walkable to metro are hardly going to be depopulated. |
Anonymous
| Who the heck hits a tanker?!! So much that it overturns? I live in MD, but not from here originally. I bet you it was MD driver texting. Around me at red lights people are always on their phones, I can look left and right and all of them on the phones, head down. Known to swerve all over the place because they are typing. Now, I don't drive much in VA, but I doubt it is this bad. |
Anonymous
Sorry, Millenials are buying cars just like everyone else, and moving to the burbs. They were just delayed by the recession. https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/03/millennial-car-ownership-driving-behavior-vehicle-data/585667/ |
Anonymous
I need an update, too. Will leave home in 8 minutes |
Anonymous
In 40 years, probably sooner, we will likely have self-driving cars so you can surf just the same. Millennials will also be retiring and who knows what the preferences of tomorrow's generations will be. |
Anonymous
Are you aware that downtown DC is kind of expensive? We ran the numbers when we got here a couple years ago and it cost significantly more to live there with no car than with one in VA. Also, I don't know if you follow the real estate forums, but if you have an average HHI you're not supposed to whine about moving an hour away because of survival of the fittest or whatever. I actually agree with your point, but think it is not realistic for many people. Most of this area really was intentionally built for car dependence, the parts that were not just don't have the capacity. This is not just an individual issue, it's quite literally driven by housing stock, infrastructure, and population size. |
Anonymous
Yes, opened at 3am. |
Anonymous
More frequent buses is an easy one. Buses going by once or twice an hour removes a lot of the utility of metro when you live 2-3 miles away. Also, bike path or lane access - 2 miles to metro is doable most days if the route is safe, but I won't live even that far if I have to cross or ride on major roads with no bike access. |
Anonymous
Except it isn't easy. Both of those things would help, but it will be very hard for either to have a major impact. As far as bike paths, for a whole host of reasons, a relatively small segment of the population is going to be willing to bike in, even with dedicated bike lines. As for buses, it would be very hard, never mind very expensive, to have a bus network than can cover enough territory to provide most people a bus option. And all of those buses would have to come quite frequently to make it a viable option for most people. If they come even every 10 minutes, which would be a tremendous increase over current rates for most routes, people won't use them because it would substantially lengthen commutes, even when people are coming straight home. Once you factor in people going all disparate ways in the evenings, the chance of having bus routes that would work logistically without very long commutes is very small. I will give you a personal example. I live 2-3 miles from a metro. It takes me 10 minutes to drive to the metro. There is actually a bus that comes close to my house, but in only comes every 30 minutes in rush. Once I am on the bus, it takes almost 20 minutes to get to the metro. So even if the bus comes immediately, I am doubling my commute to metro. Obviously, there will almost always be some wait time, further extending it. In the morning, I can watch the arrival app to cut wait time at the stop, but I may still have to wait the nearly 20-30 minutes for the next bus because I can't catch the sooner one before my kids leave. The afternoon is the bigger problem. I can't control nearly as precisely when I arrive off the metro, and the schedules aren't that precise anyway. I have just as good of a chance of just missing a bus as just making one, meaning I could easily have 30 minutes waiting for the bus and then 20 minutes on it. That's a hell of a lot longer than the 10 minute drive. Even if the buses came every 10 minutes, I would still be looking at at least doubling and sometimes tripling my commute time to metro. Sorry, that's just not going to happen, given that every minute is at a premium with two working parents and little kids. I am hardly alone in this viewpoint, which is why it would be very hard to increase buses so much that it would have a significant increase. |
Anonymous
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got out of Georgetown at 330. didnot get to vienna until 5
went chain bridge to 123 and then 123 through tysons to vienna. ugly commute but it happens every now and again.. video of the crash from the opposite direction. https://www.fox5dc.com/news/397484733-video i wonder if the truck driver had a dash cam running. |