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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't have time to research this.  I care very much about the widening of 270.  As a commuter and user of 270 I feel it should be widened.  The road wasn't built bfor as many people as they have living off the highway now.  [b]Between urbana and Clarksburg your have about thousands more people than what the road was meant to handle[/b].  There are no jobs that far north so everyone commutes south.

The source of this article is don't widen 270.  I would probably take the time to research what they are saying.  Item really ridiculous to require a user to exit a highway to get into the fee based lane.  Who would do that?[/quote]

You do know that adding lanes won't help with that problem, right?  If you add more lanes then traffic might temporarily decrease but will just induce people to drive more, to live in Clarksburg instead of closer in, to commute by car instead of by train or bus.

They need to stop this adding more lanes nonsense and convert existing lanes to BRT lanes and get people out of SOVs.  [/quote]

This is just classist.  The Washington DC metropolitan area is more and more congested.  The population has more than doubled in the last 40 years and the housing has not kept up.  There is a real housing crisis and only those in the higher income brackets can afford to live closer in.  If you are middle class or lower ($150K or lower) then you have no hope to own and have limited options to rent closer in.  The middle class who want to own are being pushed further and further out and by not offering solutions for them, you're basically just saying "screw you".

The people are not being pushed out because of the availability of commuting.  They are being pushed out because there are far too many people who have higher income that are looking for housing and taking the housing closer in.  The increased demand is causing prices to rise out of their price range forcing lower classes to move further out to afford what they need.[/quote]

The solution is transit, not more car lanes which will fill up again in no time.  It is hardly classist to say that we should have options for people who can’t afford to spend money on cars and gas.

I am literally advocating that we DO provide these options rather than expanding car lanes. I have coworkers in London and none of them, even senior execs, drove into the city because the infrastructure favors transit over cars.

Also quibbling about how far the lanes on 270 are extended is meaningless because you can’t expand capacity within DC for more people to drive into the city. The expansion has to end somewhere on the commute [/quote]

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