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This has been the MoCo/Maryland traffic planning mantra for almost the entire 30 years that I've lived here.  [b]There have been two new roads built during that time (Montrose Parkway and the ICC) pushed through during Republican administrations. [/b]The default strategy is to force people onto Metro or proposed rapid bus lines.  (Note: that the ICC has greatly improved my life and the tolls keep the road from being flooded with cars.)

I totally support widening 270 because I live in Rockville (very close to 270) and we basically can't travel from one part of Rockville to another (or adjacent places like our church in Potomac) without being stuck in commuter traffic.  But my city and county governments came out against the proposal with little public comment.[/quote]

Montrose Parkway was a Montgomery County project, built under Montgomery County executive Doug Duncan, who was (and is) not a Republican.

Which only goes to show that terrible road projects, encouraging terrible land use policy, are also built under Democrats.[/quote]

You are going to pay a toll to get from one part of Rockville to another??  I do not think many will join you.  -another Rockville resident.[/quote]

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