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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All they need is a bypass around the beltway to get the thru-traffic heading north or south on I-95 out of the mix.

30% of beltway traffic at rush hour volume is vehicles just passing through the dc area, not local traffic. If you eliminated that traffic, if would have the same effect as building 2 more lanes on the beltway.

Take I-95, route it down through Laurel, Bowie, Upper Marlboro and Clinton, and tie it back in with express lanes on the WW bridge.

Problem solved. [/quote]

This. [/quote]

You wouldn’t even have to do that. Just double-deck the existing beltway with a “through lanes only” loop that traffic on 95 would use. No exits locally, it keeps all the transient traffic separated from the local area. And also doesn’t require using land for another road, since it would be on the existing beltway footprint.

And it would have the further advantage of keeping snow off the local lanes underneath it, meaning it would help local traffic in bad weather. [/quote]

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