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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The biggest issue is the American Legion Bridge. There needs to be a large new bridge connecting Moco to the jobs in Nova, and Moco will continue to lose if it's too difficult to get to where all the jobs are.[/quote]
x100000 either a new bridge or train over the bridge.  Right now, if you want to take metro from Gaithersburg, for example, you have to take the red line to DC, then switch trains there to get into VA.  That adds serious time to the commute.
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Here is what would happen with a new or expanded bridge:

1. Everybody would say "Yippee!" and start making plans based on commuting in a single-occupancy vehicle across the bridge.
2. The bridge would fill up with traffic again.
3. The state would have spent a whole lot of money on something that didn't solve the mobility problem, rather on things that do.
4. Air quality would be worse, and more greenhouse gases would be produced.
5. People would start agitating for a new or expanded bridge.[/quote]

There's only one bridge, with 4 lanes each way, between MoCo and VA. That hardly seems like a lot to connect two areas each with over 1 million population.

The ICC (MD-200) opened 7 years ago. I hear few complaints that it's overcrowded and we need to expand it.

In fact, the ICC would be part of an outer beltway and second bridge crossing. VA already has done most of their part -- it's VA-28 near Dulles. We just need less than 10 miles from that end of VA-28 to the start of 370/MD-200 to complete it. However, MoCo will staunchly oppose it because it would enter a tiny sliver of the Agricultural Reserve at one corner of it.[/quote]

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