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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People talk about Route 1 traffic, but the center of population in NoVa is Fairfax & Loudoun Counties. Those fans will have to drive on Little River Turnpike, or  Route 7/King St. to get to the facilities. Or take the Orange/Silver Lines to Rosslyn and change trains. Really?[/quote]

Unless one lives in Crystal City, Pentagon City or Del Ray, the site is basically inaccessible for everyone else by adding at least an hour of total travel time as compare to getting to Gallery Place.[/quote]

Really? DC is closer to Mt Vernon than Alexandria is? Huh, TIL.[/quote]

how many people in Mt Vernon go to the games? What percentage?

hint: not very many. MOST of the patrons for the Caps and Wizards are coming from DC and MD. So Ted is putting a huge burden on those fans to continue to come to the games[/quote]

You don't even know what you are talking about. A bunch of the actual Caps live in Old Town.[/quote]

"a bunch" - what, maybe 5% of caps fans and 2% of Wizards fans? Yes, the team lives all over the place. John Carlson lives in Bethesda. So what?

Sure, so those folks will be able to walk/bike trapes their way north to get to the site. Everyone else will be cramming into Metro or trying to make their way south on RT from Glebe and 395 etc and the road capacity there isn't anywhere close to being able to handle it.[/quote]

And how did fans make it to DC?  Clogging up roads in their cars or cramming into Metro?  Oh.   :roll: 
DP[/quote]

If you can't see the difference between one location that has all 6 metro lines feeding it as well as a diffuse road network, versus another that has basically one road and one metro line, I don't know what to tell you.[/quote]

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