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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So none of the residents of McLean drive?  Or drive in other neighborhoods?  Or McLean residents will commit to not driving in other neighborhoods or using other on and off ramps during the closures?

[b]If this was a dense area well served by transit [/b]and people coming to and from the neighborhood had other good options maybe this would make sense.

But for one car dependent suburb to shut out other car dependent suburbanites is hypocrisy of the highest order.

FWIW I don't even drive and doubt I've ever even used this exit.[/quote]

Metro goes to and from Tysons, all day to places all over Maryland.  Most McLean people who do use this exit (most do not) have other options. [/quote]

Don't some people from Maryland need to get to downtown McLean?

It not currenly very easy to get from MoCo to Tysons by transit.   You have to take the Red line into DC, then change to the Silver line. Now if the people of McLean, represented by the McLean Civic Association, were to call for extending the Purple Line from Bethesda to Tysons via McLean, I would say they were serious about transit.

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One train change? Really? That's hard?!?[/quote]

Entitled and clueless McLean residents squaring off against equally entitled and clueless Bethesda residents about one anothers rights to drive however and wherever they like in their exclusive and poorly designed suburbs is highly entertaining.

Both communities now have pretty easy options for getting downtown on public transportation but not options for getting between their communities.

If there is magically some group of McLean residents who use public transportation to get around the suburbs I hope they will show up and advocate for this road closing.

Everyone else just needs to STFU else they will reveal how completely clueless and hypocritical they really are.[/quote]

You are missing the point, as expected. It seems as though you do not want anyone speaking out, and that is not going to happen. [/quote]

Nope not missing the point - I have no objection to people speaking out as they are constitutionally entitled to do.  I will just howl with laughter at the hypocrisy of car dependent McLean residents telling other car dependent residents that they can't use public roadways.[/quote]

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