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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another Potomac crossing might make sense if the connector were a true limited access highway (think Pa Turnpike west) with no exits between I-270/Washingtonian Blvd and the river crossing.  Absent that restriction, the new highway extension and crossing will quickly become a sprawl generator, yielding yet more fast casual chains, big box shopping centers, warehouses, office parks and subdivisions, all of which will leverage comvenient access to the highway.  That would be true induced demand.[/quote]
That’s called economic development. It’s like arguing that the Dulles Toll Road should not have had exits between 495 and the airport because Reston Town Center should still be farmland instead of HQ to several multinational corporations. [/quote]

It’s called shitty development.  MoCo set aside an agricultural open space reserve.  An outer beltway type Potomac crossing would destroy it and bring even more traffic.  Then development shills would start calling for a third circumferential crossing.[/quote]
Turning your nose up at six figure jobs in cutting edge sectors just because you don’t like the aesthetics certainly is something. It’s not a successful something but it is something. [/quote]

The US may be in an inflationary period but it’s doubtful that more Chipotle’s and Best Buy’s will being 6-figure jobs.  Nature and watersheds have value also.  It’s one thing if a new road will truly address gridlock; it’s another if it’s planned to induce more sprawl.[/quote]
I guess you missed the buildings with names on them for companies you may know, like Oracle, Google, AWS, and VMWare.

I can understand why you might be confused if you never leave Montgomery County, because the only jobs here are retail and food service and that’s literally the only jobs the urbanists folks are trying to create. Just a more “dense and walkable^TM” bedroom community with more “vibrant” retail.

If we want jobs we need to change things up dramatically. [/quote]

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