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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a parent who just arrived at Langley to pick up my student.  It is now 3:49.  I was stuck on GTP, as usual, for 25 minutes over a stretch of two miles - from Spring Hill Road to Cooper MS.  The line of MD drivers - in both directions - trying to get to the Beltway north ramp was unreal.  Not only was GTP at a standstill, but so was Swinks Mill, Balls Hill, and Dead Run.  All MD drivers headed for that ramp, along with some very frustrated VA drivers just trying to use GTP.

A PP asked why students would be headed east on GTP at this hour - many are parents trying to get to LHS to pick up our kids who have to stay after.  There are late buses that run on certain days, but they leave school much later and get stuck in the same traffic, making the kids that much later.

VDOT, if you happen to be reading this, PLEASE close the northbound beltway ramp off of GTP in the afternoons, starting at least by 2:15.  There is no reason our local drivers, including teachers, parents, and students, should have to wait in this insane traffic jam just so Maryland drivers can get a toll-free shortcut home.[/quote]

Are Langley parents out of their mind! I can't even begin to think of a more entitled response than this. Close off a beltway exit starting at 2 for people that bring millions into the County so that a stay at home mom can pick up their high schooler rather than him or her waiting at the school before sports games or God forbid riding a bus or driving home themselves. I really have heard everything now. I'm just so disgusted with these people. They gerrymandered boundaries, restrict apartments in their neighborhoods, throw a temper tantrum over a small senior living facility taking up valuable time when our supervisors could have been reviewing other areas of the county more fully, throw another temper tantrum over airplanes over their neighborhood. The list goes on and on. If I were a supervisor, I'd start talking about widening the road and/or moving these kids to other schools right away. Can we do something to shut up the whining about parents picking up kids from the high school when there is a perfectly good bus available?[/quote]

Wow, speaking of temper tantrums... where to start with this silly bunch of exaggerations and outright lies.  You do know that a lot of kids stay after to make up tests, get extra academic support, etc., right?  That it's not all about sports?  And maybe you're not aware, but the late bus at Langley runs ONE DAY a week - not every day.  So a non-driving kid staying after on any other day will need to be picked up.  You seem to assume all kids are there for sports, that late buses run every day, and that all kids not only have licenses, but also drive to school.  That's a lot of absurd assumptions.

I suggest you check your rage at the Langley community in general and stop blaming things like neighborhood boundaries, etc. on the families who live there.  Take it up with the school board or elected officials if you have such a huge chip on your shoulder.  That might at least shut up *your* whining.[/quote]

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