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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Okay, so somehow it is preferable if the traffic affects [b]the nicer neighborhood[/b]?  The one that [b]carries a good chunk of Fairfax County[/b]? Hilarious. [/quote]

The traffic already affects all the neighborhoods.  You simply want it to affect other neighborhoods more, and yours barely at all.

Also, Fairfax County is big, with lots of areas of affluence.  If you want to know why Langley has an awful reputation, it's because people there regularly say things like it "carries a good chunk of Fairfax County."  If you stopped to look down your noses occasionally, you might actually find out that the rest of us aren't riding on your shoulders.  [/quote]

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