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[quote=Anonymous][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.  Between urbana and Clarksburg your have about thousands more people than what the road was meant to handle.  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]

The current plan is only  to expand up to exit 9.  [b]Nothing will change in the Clarksburg area. [/b] I do  not understand where  all the cars are supposed to go when the 4 extra lanes stop suddenly.[/quote]

I just don't understand why the planners are so obsessed with this portion of 270.  It's already the widest part and the road is going to bottleneck at the same places.  They'll be going from 12 lanes to 16 lanes.  Clarksburg will still be 6 lanes and north of it will be 4.  I live in the area they're planning to add the lanes and I actually don't mind road widening.  This means I can take a toll road all the way out of DC in South 95 without sitting in traffic at all.  I don't make that trip often but it will be nice and well worth the money.  If I had to do that trip all the time there's no way I would pay for it though.  This will be good for me personally but I don't understand how it's going to help commuters that are on the road just driving through the area from areas to the North.  They're still going to hit bottlenecks, especially on the way home.  We really need to have more housing for people to live closer.  What's the next plan, 20 lanes through Rockville and 4 lanes north to Frederick? That's only slightly more absurd than 16 and 4.[/quote]

It is the most profitable part to toll so will be the most attractive to private developers.[/quote]

Okay that does make sense.  It's funny how they say it's because we need to relieve congestion and they're only expanding to make profits off the tolls.[/quote]

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