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Georgetown Pike has been around since George Washington was alive. The houses on the Pike each have 2-5 acres of land, some more. I don't consider that over-development. I live off the Pike and I can tell you that it is without a doubt mostly MD commuters using that road, avoiding the Toll road and Route 7.  It's one lane and very curvy in places. The bottlenecks occur beyond Old Dominion due to a stop sign at Swinks Mill and lights at and a bit before the beltway entrance.

You can't really widen Georgetown Pike without major construction as some areas are sheer drops into Difficult Run stream. A bridge was proposed off Fairfax County Parkway and shot down. [/quote]

[b]Your logic escapes me. [/b] Georgetown Pike is old and your property is large, thus other people don't exist and traffic is not your problem?  I know Georgetown Pike very well myself and it can be made wider, safer, and more accommodating to the volume that is inevitable given the demographics of 2018.  Please update your references from the 1700s.

Closing off any access to a vital artery such as the beltway will cause incredible congestion throughout an even wider area.  There are better alternatives and unfortunately they will cost big $ and take a long time to install because of the decades of neglect wishing this problem away.  Build the bridge, add lanes, create flyovers, or simply enforce the traffic controls since the lane cheaters are predominantly responsible for the gridlock.  [/quote]

Georgetown Pike is a designated historic byway.  It can't be widened.[/quote]

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