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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d like the left turn closed at 123/Blake lane from 7-9 am and 4-7 pm.Who do I contact? The traffic on Blake lane is terrible! It’s everyone cutting through a road with residential area only to get to 66. It’s mainly non-Fairfax county residents. It takes 30 minutes for locals to go just 2 miles. It takes 20 minutes to make a left turn onto Blake Lane from any neighborhood street at that timeframe. It’s worse in the morning with commuters causing school buses and parents to be late as they make their way to the metro. People get off at 123 and head down Blake Lane to get to metro. A residential street has become a commuters short cut.

But, it’s nit Georgetown Pike - not loads of rich people - so we’ll see if vdot looks into it. Maybe they could just add lights at every intersection, so residents can get out of their streets. [/quote]

The Langley/Great Falls crowd expects special treatment.  Whether it's keeping the poor kids out of their schools, keeping their kids out of the schools with poor kids, or keeping Maryland cars off roads near their homes.

If VDOT closes this ramp, the traffic won't magically disappear.  It will just spill over into other neighborhoods in McLean, Falls Church, and Arlington that already have their fair share of traffic. If Arlington and Fairfax politicians allow this, they should be removed from office. [/quote]

I am the OP. My kids are young and I don’t know the political history with Langley High School. Our house is in a very quiet residential area. Georgetown Pike is only one lane where we turn onto it. It is a huge bottleneck and it happens to be on our route to our zoned elementary, middle school and high schools are located.

Ironically we picked our house because we thought it would be quiet and safe in a good school pyramid. I would not have bought the house knowing we would be in bumper to bumper traffic to and from school everyday.[/quote]

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