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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]
This is ironic. You folks need to understand history better.

Prior to Doug Duncan the county was run by a comfortable NIMBY cabal that blocked all change and progress because they were happy with the status quo. Sound familiar?

Residents got fed up with the lack of investment in infrastructure and Doug Dougan recognized this and responses to citizens concerns. He ran on an “Anti-Gridlock” platform. And more than that, he recruited 5 candidates to run for council seats on an “Anti-Gridlock” slate. And guess what? They won and followed through on their promises.

The current council and you NIMBY anti-process idiots will get your due if you continue to prevent this county from moving forward with modest infrastructure projects. Block the HOT lanes and it only increases the chances of a second bridge, which the MCOG cannot vote down because they approved it already in the master plan. You folks are stupid. 
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Here is a list of 5 (not 6) people who are not Republicans: Doug Duncan, Steve Silverman, Michael Subin, Nancy Floreen and George Leventhal.

There is no second crossing in either MWCOG's 2018 summary of financially constrained projects or air quality conformity analysis: https://www.mwcog.org/documents/2018/10/17/visualize-2045-a-long-range-transportation-plan-for-the-national-capital-region-featured-publications-tpb-visualize-2045/

I've never yet heard Neil Potter or Sidney Kramer described as NIMBYs, but there's a first time for everything, I guess.[/quote]

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