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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]traffic congestion is a function a terrible land use planning. Not road network necessarily.   Widening major roads always leads to MORE traffic as more people will start using again.
-A professional urban planner[/quote]

People/commuters are blood and roads along with transit are a circulatory system.  If you don't build more roads the existing system will literally burst.

Adding more lanes increases overall capacity and allows more people to move throughout a region.

Now, what actually needs to happen is more Business needs to be located in PG county and Frederick so the road network is actually utilized in both directions.

The fallacy of this region is most of the commuting destinations are in the North West Quadrant instead of equally spread out in the other 3 quadrant areas.[/quote]

No, it will not burst; it will clog. People will be forced to drive more slowly and allow more time or choose another time to drive to the store or different stores to drive to. Perhaps stores in PG county and Frederick. Are you driving to stores there these days?

No sympathy for people sitting in traffic on the Pike when 270 is just west and takes you right to Frederick.

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