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Why is the Beltway so curvy around Connecticut Avenue?
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Anonymous
| Can someone please help me to understand why the Beltway curves so much at Connecticut. What engineer designed that? It costs me a lot of time at rush hour. |
Anonymous
| Like with the proposed purple line that can't go through the country club, the expensive houses were there when they built the beltway, and they didn't want it in their backyard. |
Anonymous
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We're sorry we didn't let you put your highway through our houses! Sorry it causes you time on your commute through our neighborhood!
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Anonymous
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Try taking public transportation.
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Anonymous
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I hate the curves, too, and how fast everyone goes around them...I agree...too sharp of a design.
I also hate all of those little brown signs around GW parkway near the airport to rosslyn...who can read those things while finding your route???? Did anyone read that article in the Post where they photographed the random sigsn that did not make sense...it was really funny and sad. Can't DC set an example for good design...national design standard...guess not |
Anonymous
| It is dangerous. |
Anonymous
Defensive much?! Did she ask the question of you by name, Mrs. Chevy Chase? |
Anonymous
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I seriously doubt "Miss Chevy Chase" has lived in her precious house since the early 60s anyway when the Beltway was built. ha! Love the tone though -- "commute through our neighborhood" -- as if she's sitting on her front porch shaking her fist at those speeders cruising down her block.
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Anonymous
| It IS called the Beltway. As, in a LOOP. It must curve somewhere. |
Anonymous
| I actually read somewhere that it's b/c of Rock Creek Park - there were places in the park that they could not disturb. |
Anonymous
We...so you must be about 80 years old then, since the beltway was built in the early 1960's? Hmm...or you gave input while in utero? Ridiculous comment. And I agree with the OP. curves make the beltway very dangerous. Engineers didn't do much forward thinking. |
Anonymous
| come on now, the curves aren't so bad. it's just the influx of cars trying to hit the road at the same time that makes it bad. that's probably costing you more time than the curves of the road. i personally tend to go a little fast around the curves but that's because once you get the hang of them, they're really not that hard to maneuver around. |
Anonymous
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Slowing down might help.
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Anonymous
| immediate pp. Right, the curves weren't bad probably for the amount of traffic in 1965, but with today's volume, they just exacerbate the traffic situation. |
Anonymous
LMAO!! Now this is funny. YOUR highway?? So you've never driven on the beltway yourself? And you lived in your current house when the beltway was constructed? Get over yourself, darling. |