Never buy with a commute dependent on I-66

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Y'all voted for the people who did this to you.

This.

Too much “we gotta turn the state blue because they’re morally righteous”

*property taxes and tolls go way up*

“Omg why is this happening!”

Also, what is the obsession with the people poking fun of ones who have a big house in the exurbs?? Insecure much?

Yea, who wants an area with lots of high paying jobs that cause housing prices to go up. We should be like WVA. Hey, I hear WVA is welcoming portions of VA to secede. We should do that, definitely. LOL

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I do agree with the PP though, it's annoying that they extended the hours, so that people who worked, say 6AM-3PM, or 9AM-6PM can no longer take advantage of non-HOV hours like you could before. Now non-HOV is before 5:30, after 9:30, before 3, and after 7.

They have to. Since the full route was completed in the early 1980's, the population of the DC regional area has more than doubled. The three spot expansions are not nearly enough to increase the capacity to handle the additional volume of traffic in the region. So they are trying to regulate the use of the road. The times are set based around volume trafficking. The number of people who use the road between 5:30-6:00 AM and 6:00-7:00 PM has increased with many people time-shifting as you have been doing and the volume is such that it warranted adjusting the schedule to keep the road from being a very expensive traffic snarl every morning and every evening.

The point is that more people have to carpool or be diverted to public transportation like Metro and VRE. For those that want the luxury of driving into town solo, it comes with a price.

Yikes. Serious question..... is this likely for 270 and parts of 495 as Hogan is proposing in Maryland??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Y'all voted for the people who did this to you.

This.

Too much “we gotta turn the state blue because they’re morally righteous”

*property taxes and tolls go way up*

“Omg why is this happening!”

Also, what is the obsession with the people poking fun of ones who have a big house in the exurbs?? Insecure much?

Yea, who wants an area with lots of high paying jobs that cause housing prices to go up. We should be like WVA. Hey, I hear WVA is welcoming portions of VA to secede. We should do that, definitely. LOL

The entire tail of Virginia could go to WVA, and all it would mean is that I get to keep more of my tax money local rather than paying for coal country. We have family there, and, other than some really pretty mountains, Virginia would not lose anything for them to move the borders around Wise, Lee, Scott, Dickenson, and about a dozen of their neighboring counties.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yawn...10 to 15 minutes by car from Reston to downtown DC during rush hour ... AT MOST.

In your helicopter?

Yeah there’s no way getting to dc from an exurb like Reston takes 10 to 15 mins. You can barely get to DC from Rosslyn in that short of a time. Yet alone way out in Reston.

Reston hasn’t been an exurb since like what ... the CivilWar? Ok maaaaayyybbeee in the 50s? I moved here in the early 90s. No one ever called that anything but the DC metro area, and I lived in Arlington, Alexandria, and FCC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok, so say you were soon to be relocating to NoVA and had been seriously considering Falls Church/McLean/Pimmit/Merrifield areas because you were not informed about the HOV/toll situation and didn't pay enough attention to Google Maps' directions when you checked commute times....where would you go instead if you had a daily commute to Crystal City area but not comfortably walkable to metro station. Family with multiple young kids FYI.

Why not live in Arlington? Why not pick FCC or Marrifield over Pimmit/McLean and drive on Rt50?

I live in McLean inside the beltway, I take GW to work in Alexandria, takes me 30 mins, if GW is backed up I can take inner roads through Arlington. McLean inside the beltway (22101) and Pimmit Hills residents aren't depending upon 66, that's why we paid so much for a good access to DC as well as Tysons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok, so say you were soon to be relocating to NoVA and had been seriously considering Falls Church/McLean/Pimmit/Merrifield areas because you were not informed about the HOV/toll situation and didn't pay enough attention to Google Maps' directions when you checked commute times....where would you go instead if you had a daily commute to Crystal City area but not comfortably walkable to metro station. Family with multiple young kids FYI.

Why not live in Arlington? Why not pick FCC or Marrifield over Pimmit/McLean and drive on Rt50?

I live in McLean inside the beltway, I take GW to work in Alexandria, takes me 30 mins, if GW is backed up I can take inner roads through Arlington. McLean inside the beltway (22101) and Pimmit Hills residents aren't depending upon 66, that's why we paid so much for a good access to DC as well as Tysons.

PP again. Falls Church and McLean both will work great for Crystal City.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do agree with the PP though, it's annoying that they extended the hours, so that people who worked, say 6AM-3PM, or 9AM-6PM can no longer take advantage of non-HOV hours like you could before. Now non-HOV is before 5:30, after 9:30, before 3, and after 7.

They have to. Since the full route was completed in the early 1980's, the population of the DC regional area has more than doubled. The three spot expansions are not nearly enough to increase the capacity to handle the additional volume of traffic in the region. So they are trying to regulate the use of the road. The times are set based around volume trafficking. The number of people who use the road between 5:30-6:00 AM and 6:00-7:00 PM has increased with many people time-shifting as you have been doing and the volume is such that it warranted adjusting the schedule to keep the road from being a very expensive traffic snarl every morning and every evening.

The point is that more people have to carpool or be diverted to public transportation like Metro and VRE. For those that want the luxury of driving into town solo, it comes with a price.

Yikes. Serious question..... is this likely for 270 and parts of 495 as Hogan is proposing in Maryland??

Of course but with huge choke points because they are planning it poorly. ..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yawn...10 to 15 minutes by car from Reston to downtown DC during rush hour ... AT MOST.

In your helicopter?

Yeah there’s no way getting to dc from an exurb like Reston takes 10 to 15 mins. You can barely get to DC from Rosslyn in that short of a time. Yet alone way out in Reston.

Reston hasn’t been an exurb since like what ... the CivilWar? Ok maaaaayyybbeee in the 50s? I moved here in the early 90s. No one ever called that anything but the DC metro area, and I lived in Arlington, Alexandria, and FCC.

I have lived in this area since the early 2000s and Reston has always been considered an exurb. It is not just outside the city and it’s fairly rural out there. That’s part of the appeal I think. That said, I would like to we the speedometer if anyone who can get to dc in 15 min; it takes me 30 min to get there from Arlington

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yawn...10 to 15 minutes by car from Reston to downtown DC during rush hour ... AT MOST.

In your helicopter?

Yeah there’s no way getting to dc from an exurb like Reston takes 10 to 15 mins. You can barely get to DC from Rosslyn in that short of a time. Yet alone way out in Reston.

Reston hasn’t been an exurb since like what ... the CivilWar? Ok maaaaayyybbeee in the 50s? I moved here in the early 90s. No one ever called that anything but the DC metro area, and I lived in Arlington, Alexandria, and FCC.

I have lived in this area since the early 2000s and Reston has always been considered an exurb. It is not just outside the city and it’s fairly rural out there. That’s part of the appeal I think. That said, I would like to we the speedometer if anyone who can get to dc in 15 min; it takes me 30 min to get there from Arlington

So you don’t know what an exurb is.

Planned community <> rural.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

This may be the stupidest post. Before the tolls went in, 66 was unavailable for me. Now I have the option. I can either take 66 with toll, or take surface streets, or carpool.

I 66 tolls have been a game changer in my trip home: at 4 pm when I usually go home, the toll from Ballston to the beltway is usually 3-4 dollars and it saves me 1/2 hour vs. surface streets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The times for tolling are longer than the times used to be for HOV only. So that did screw over a lot of commuters.

I'm one of those, and the price at 6 am is one or two bucks. It's not a big deal. Not everyone is fortunate enough to start work that early but if you were already doing it, you are still ok. For me it's an incentive not to run late.

To the other PP who asked why drive, I live near Metro but my destination is not anywhere near Metro and last-mile solutions don't help in my case. I hate that I drive (after years of public transit) but I have to admit it is much faster at 6 am than the train.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yawn...10 to 15 minutes by car from Reston to downtown DC during rush hour ... AT MOST.

In your helicopter?

Yeah there’s no way getting to dc from an exurb like Reston takes 10 to 15 mins. You can barely get to DC from Rosslyn in that short of a time. Yet alone way out in Reston.

Reston hasn’t been an exurb since like what ... the CivilWar? Ok maaaaayyybbeee in the 50s? I moved here in the early 90s. No one ever called that anything but the DC metro area, and I lived in Arlington, Alexandria, and FCC.

I have lived in this area since the early 2000s and Reston has always been considered an exurb. It is not just outside the city and it’s fairly rural out there. That’s part of the appeal I think. That said, I would like to we the speedometer if anyone who can get to dc in 15 min; it takes me 30 min to get there from Arlington[/quote

OMG. People did and still commute from West Virginia to DC and places like Suitland and New Carrollton, Maryland. Leesburg is maybe an exurb. Occoquan, too. Reston not so much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The times for tolling are longer than the times used to be for HOV only. So that did screw over a lot of commuters.

I'm one of those, and the price at 6 am is one or two bucks. It's not a big deal. Not everyone is fortunate enough to start work that early but if you were already doing it, you are still ok. For me it's an incentive not to run late.

To the other PP who asked why drive, I live near Metro but my destination is not anywhere near Metro and last-mile solutions don't help in my case. I hate that I drive (after years of public transit) but I have to admit it is much faster at 6 am than the train.

I’ve had similar experience when I lived a mile from Metro. Metro was minimum 2x longer, but I wished it was otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Exurb=faquier, stafford, Calvert
Suburb=Fairfax (including Reston)Arlington Loudoun, , Alexandria, Montgomery, PG
City=DC

cmon folks, this isn’t hard.