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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you live in MoCo, then I'd recommend voting against Elrich for County Exec. His solution to 270 is to ignore it or add in BRT (buses), which doesn't work well given how spread out things are up-county. Ficker lives in Boyds, and Floreen seems to have at least some grasp on the need for more roads.[/quote]. Yes a 16 lane road is a solution ...for a few years until we need 20 lanes.  If you can't carpool or use public transportation or live bear your job you need to plan to sit in traffic.[/quote]

The last time 270 was widened was in the late 1980's. It's time for another expansion.[/quote]

Expanding 270 where it’s already wide doesn’t help the bottleneck as it still goes down to two lanes north towards Frederick. If they’re going to expand 270 then they need to widen the lanes up north not where it is already wide. Common sense[/quote]

+1 widen the bottlenecks and the narrowest parts.  How in the world will widening the widest part of the road help at all?

To the person from NOVA - I used to live in NOVA and unless you’re confusing the American Legion Bridge, which always has horrible traffic with 270, you just making stuff up.  I-270 compared to I-66 is night and day.  Yes 270 has a lot of traffic but 66 might as well have stop lights on it.  It’s so much worse in NoVA.

To all the people in Clarksburg and Frederick, look I get it, you wanted a new build.  When you picked that location for the newer cheaper house while working in MoCo, NoVA, or DC you knew what you were signing up for.  Move closer if you want an easier commute.  For 500k you can get a fine, if smaller and older house in MoCo and 350k can get you a townhouse.  No sympathy for someone that signed up for that commute.  I didn’t complain about the drive on 66 when I lived in NoVA because I chose to live there.[/quote]

But quality of life living around DC/Bethesda people drastically drops and the use of anxiety medication increases. So that is not an option. It's not about a bigger house it's about nicer people. [/quote]

That’s just hyperbole and if you don’t want Bethesda you can just live in a different location like Rockville, Kentlands, Potomac, Silver Spring, etc.  There are plenty of down to earth places you can pick.  Maybe the house has nothing to do with it for you (it’s the culture) but for many people iit is 100% housing.[/quote]

I don't know anybody that moved for housing. Most people don't want congestion and rude people. ... Potomac, SS, Takoma Park... still the same. Kentlands maybe but the houses are on top of each other and not everybody likes fake walkability, many want to walk in the woods, trees, streams, etc.

rockville is fine but if you want to go for  a hike, you need to drive for 20 - 30 minutes. [/quote]

PP - I notice that you don't mention PG county as a possibility.  Why is that?  [/quote]

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