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Reply to "Will the Westbard redevelopment blow up the Whitman cluster?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Right now the only way to get from MoCo to NoVA is 4 lanes each way on the American Legion Bridge. It's been that way for years and years, while traffic volume has increased tremendously. How do you propose solving the need to transport people and goods between those two regions? [b]M-83 would be a similar price to BRT[/b] and likely transport more people per day.[/quote] Where do you get those numbers from? And what will all those people M-83 will transport do, when they get to the already overloaded intersections at the end of the highway? Then should we make those intersections bigger too, at whatever cost? For 60 years, we've tried to solve congestion by building roads, which led to more driving, which led to more congestion, which led to more roads, which led to... It hasn't worked, it won't work, and we need to stop doing it.[/quote] BRT bill comes in at $5 billion: http://robertdyer.blogspot.com/2013/11/fact-checking-montgomery-county-brt.html More roads isn't the solution to all the problems, but I think it's part of the solution, along with public transport. The population in this area is going up, and that's nothing we can change. More people means not only more need for people to get around, but also goods and products, because we have more consumers. Not expanding road infrastructure seems like a poor decision -- it hinders both people and goods from moving easily. I see no change in there being plenty of trade and jobs between MoCo and NoVA. How else will people and goods move around? All we have right now is 4 lanes on 495, and it's been that way for 20+ years. So far, I have heard no talk of adding a public transport link, and the current option (red line into DC, then silver line back out) isn't that feasible for most people. What do you propose instead?[/quote]
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