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I'd love to see a multilane freeway built from Friendship Heights, through Chevy Chase DC and the Palisades to help me get to work.  How about extending 270 south to the river?  I would get all the benefit and none of the impacts from the freeway.  Should we put this to majority vote in DC?  Who cares what the NIMBY residents of those neighborhoods think, as they'd probably be deep in the minority.   The majority of us want a faster route to get downtown and beyond!  [/quote]

The Congress and USDOT already tried that and DC residents stood up against having a road used by Marylanders going through our neighborhoods. The difference here is that this is DC controlled property and a DC agency providing benefits to DC residents. YOU DO NOT OWN THE PARK.

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That was also 45 years ago, and traffic has only gotten worse, so it's time to re-look at our highway network.  Besides, why should other wards have freeways and not Ward 3?  Ward 1, Ward 2, Wards 5, 6, 7 and 8 all have freeway access.  Why should we have to drive to Ward 2 to find a freeway?  Ward 3 needs a freeway, too![/quote]

No, it is not time to look at our highway network. It is time to understand that widening roads and building urban highways is a path to failure for our cities. Traffic has gotten worse because there are more people who are dependent on cars who live in the region. If we had a better bike network and more dependable mass transit options, there would be less of a need for cars to get where we need to go. Instead, people fight development near metro station, fight bike lanes and regionally underfund mass transit, while more and more move to the region and are pushed further away from jobs and opportunities.[/quote]

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